Appscout had an article about a "new" cleanup program for windows. The article pointed to
http://www.cleanme.tk/ for downloading it. But I was leary of the TLD so did some checking. This looks suspicious to me. Am I right? Or overcautious?
larry@triggerfish:~$ whois cleanme.tk
Rights restricted by copyright. See
http://www.dot.tk/en/pageF00.html
Domain name:
CLEANME.TK
Organisation:
BV Dot TK
Dot TK administrator
P.O. Box 11774
1001 GT Amsterdam
Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 5315725
Fax: +31 20 5315721
E-mail: abuse: abuse@dot.tk, copyright infringement: copyright@dot.tk
Domain Nameservers:
NS01.DOT.TK
NS02.DOT.TK
NS03.DOT.TK
NS04.DOT.TK
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according to the terms and conditions of Free Domain domain names
the registrant is BV Dot TK in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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about the user of the domain name cannot be released.
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detailed email with your complaint to abuse@dot.tk.
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larry@triggerfish:~$ dig cleanme.tk
; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2 <<>> cleanme.tk
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34012
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 7, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cleanme.tk. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 94.103.151.195
cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 193.33.61.2
cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 209.172.59.196
cleanme.tk. 300 IN A 217.119.57.22
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-F.TALOHA.tk.
tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-D.TALOHA.tk.
tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-G.TALOHA.tk.
tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-E.TALOHA.tk.
tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-A.TALOHA.tk.
tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-C.TALOHA.tk.
tk. 12242 IN NS ROOT-B.TALOHA.tk.
;; Query time: 120 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr 1 10:12:01 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 246
larry@triggerfish:~$
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