See where 'barrysoetoro.com' takes you on Internet

wnd ^ | April 09, 2009 11:00 pm Eastern

[Red Steel]

What does website using president's childhood moniker mean?

Punch in barrysoetoro.com on your computer Internet browser and what do you see? Well, here's a hint: It's remarkably similar to WhiteHouse.gov.

But no, it's not any admission by the president that he really is a citizen of Indonesia or that he's a foreign national or anything like that: It's just a web domain owner providing a redirect from his domain name, barrysoetoro.com, to President Obama's official residency.

A screen capture of the image from the official White House address is here:

And the image resulting from the barrysoetoro.com address is here:

[TLI]

I tried it.

All I can say is WTH?

[Steel Bill]

Did you run a tracert on the IP?

[DigitalVideoDude]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>ping barrysoetoro.com

Pinging barrysoetoro.com [98.124.199.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 98.124.199.1: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=243
Reply from 98.124.199.1: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=243
Reply from 98.124.199.1: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=243
Reply from 98.124.199.1: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=243

Ping statistics for 98.124.199.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 33ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 33ms

C:\>ping whitehouse.gov

Pinging whitehouse.gov [96.16.18.135] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 96.16.18.135: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=56
Reply from 96.16.18.135: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=56
Reply from 96.16.18.135: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=56
Reply from 96.16.18.135: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 96.16.18.135:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 55ms, Maximum = 56ms, Average = 55ms

C:\>

[Red Steel]

Try again:

http://barrysoetoro.com/

[rdl6989]

Very interesting.

[TLI]

1 ev1s-66-98-216-1.theplanet.com (66.98.216.1) 0.352 ms 0.234 ms 0.228 ms

2 et2-13.ibr02.hstntx1.theplanet.com (207.218.245.21) 0.169 ms 0.140 ms 0.133 ms 3 209.66.99.93.available.above.net (209.66.99.93) 27.241 ms 0.459 ms 0.465 ms

4 ge-0-2-0.mpr3.iah1.above.net (64.125.26.221) 0.795 ms 0.713 ms 0.725 ms

MPLS Label=629616 CoS=7 TTL=1 S=0

5 so-1-1-0.mpr1.dfw2.us.above.net (64.125.26.129) 6.151 ms 6.125 ms 6.125 ms

MPLS Label=298891 CoS=7 TTL=1 S=0

6 so-2-3-0.mpr2.ord2.us.above.net (64.125.25.133) 33.658 ms 33.627 ms 33.626 ms

MPLS Label=408561 CoS=7 TTL=1 S=0

7 xe-1-1-0.er1.ord7.above.net (64.125.26.250) 33.537 ms 33.577 ms 33.553 ms

8 64.124.195.237.available.above.net (64.124.195.237) 33.746 ms 33.786 ms 33.727 ms

9 69.64.145.229 (69.64.145.229) 33.698 ms 33.590 ms 33.645 ms

[TLI]

In other words, it’s real. But the name... Why?

[Califreak]

Google obamasucks.com and click on the 1st link.

It redirects to another Google search.

“Did you mean ‘barack obama’?”

[DigitalVideoDude]

Whois results:

Registrant:
KOLSCH
1105 Kings Cross
Brunswick, GA 31525-6822
US

Domain Name: BARRYSOTERO.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
KOLSCH whitecastle@bellsouth.net
1105 Kings Cross
Brunswick, GA 31525-6822
US
912-262-1475 fax: 123 123 1234

Record expires on 21-Jun-2009.
Record created on 21-Jun-2008.
Database last updated on 10-Apr-2009 02:22:57 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS43.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.190.22
NS44.WORLDNIC.COM 205.178.144.22

[pepperhead]

It means some guy bought the name and is directing requests to the whitehouse site.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059746/posts

http://whois.domaintools.com/barrysoetoro.com

Whois Record

Registration Service Provided By: NameAlerts, LLC
Contact:
Visit: http://www.NameAlerts.com

Domain name: barrysoetoro.com

Administrative Contact:
Tharwat.com
Tharwat Abdul-Malik ()
+1.8138330583
Fax: +1.8138330583
10460 Roosevelt Blvd N
Suite 289
Saint Petersburg, FL 33716
US

Technical Contact:
Tharwat.com
Tharwat Abdul-Malik ()
+1.8138330583
Fax: +1.8138330583
10460 Roosevelt Blvd N
Suite 289
Saint Petersburg, FL 33716
US

Registrant Contact:
Tharwat.com
Tharwat Abdul-Malik ()

Fax:
10460 Roosevelt Blvd N
Suite 289
Saint Petersburg, FL 33716
US

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com

Creation date: 15 Apr 2008 20:49:25
Expiration date: 15 Apr 2009 20:49:00

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http://www.tharwat.com/About_Us/about_us.html

Tharwat Consulting Group is a company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It was formed at the beginning of 1997 to provide a more formal structure for the growing business and activities of its predecessor firm, Elise, Bruce, Regina & Associates, Inc.

The technical staff is lead by President and CEO Tharwat Abdul-Malik, a veteran developer with over twenty years of software industry experience. It also features the talents of a number of other developers, depending on the projects currently in progress.

Clients of Tharwat Consulting Group and its predecessor firm include companies of all sizes and types. We consistently deliver quality software development services for all clients regardless of size, setting the client needs first and foremost as the criteria by which the finished product must be judged. References for prior work are available upon request.

[rdl6989]

Great detective work.

[TLI]

Weard

[DigitalVideoDude]

Actually... not so good.

I did a whois on ‘barrysotero.com’.

The posting is about ‘barrysoetoro.com’.

See posting 11 for that whois.

Oops.

[Steel Bill]

I meant to say run a tracert on the domain name and see which servers it went through. The IP numbers that pop up can be used to identify the owners of the servers.

[Semper Mark]

“Tharwat Abdul-Malik a veteran developer”...
And a muslim.

[autumnraine]

Now everyone who typed that name in has their IP stored in the White House database. For future, ahh, research.

[numberonepal]

The index page at http://barrysoetoro.com/ is a framed page with the visible frame loading whitehouse.gov. You can do this with most any site and you can also prevent other domains from doing this with any site. I'm quite surprised that whitehouse.gov does not have code in their HTML to break out of frames.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
if (self != top) {
if (document.images)
top.location.replace(window.location.href);
else
top.location.href = window.location.href;
}
</script>

[Steel Bill]

When my wife gets done with her homework I will look up the IP’s and tell you if there is anything fishy.

[Steel Bill]

When my wife gets done with her homework I will look up the IP’s and let you know if there is something fishy.