These sites seem to be exact mirrors of this site. I got distracted during a google search and logged onto one thinking it was this site. I quickly freaked out and changed my password but I would like to know their relationship with this site. A phishing scam, or something innocent?<p>http://news.ycombinator.net/
http://hackerne.ws/
You can do a DNS lookup on the domains:<p><a href="http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=news.ycombinator.net" rel="nofollow">http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=ne...</a><p><a href="http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=hackerne.ws" rel="nofollow">http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=ha...</a><p>Compare it with the real HN domain (news.ycombinator.com):
<a href="http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=dnsrec&host=ne...</a><p>I dunno about hackerne.ws, but the ycombinator.com and .net domains look like they've got the same information. Perhaps someone with more DNS experience can do a little more digging.<p>EDIT: Here's the WHOIS info for the contact email (dns@jomax.net) for hackerne.ws:
<a href="http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=JOMAX.NET" rel="nofollow">http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=JOMAX.NET</a>
yc.net seems to be registered by PG and pointing to the same server, though hackerne.ws is a godaddy domain hosted on godaddy servers, which seems a lot sketchier.