User:Johnuniq/ccTLD
This report concerns disruptive edits to articles related to ccTLD (country code top-level domains). A discussion occurred here.
See discussion at ANI (July 2017).
Overview
[edit]Recent activity can be seen in "related changes" for {{ccTLD}}:
ccTLD articles edited by the IPs:
- .al .ar .bf .bi .bj .br .cd .cg .ci .cl .cn .co .cu .dz .ec .et .gh .gm .gn .hr .hu .id .il .in .ir .jp .ke .kp .kr .ly .md .mk .ml .mn .mx .my .ne .ng .pe .ph .pk .ro .rw .sd .sn .td .th .tn .tr .tw .ua .ug .vn
IPs from above (BTnet UK Regional network):
- 81.135.204.201 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs, x-wiki)
- 86.134.240.162 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs, x-wiki)
- 86.174.198.166 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs, x-wiki)
- 86.134.246.111 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs, x-wiki)
- 86.164.203.33 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs, x-wiki)
- 86.167.196.52 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs, x-wiki)
- 86.174.196.117 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs,x-wiki)
- 86.174.196.70 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs, x-wiki)
- 86.186.7.21 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs, x-wiki)
- 86.188.38.18 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) (all contribs, x-wiki)
The IPs are active cross-wiki (click the x-wiki link for cross-wiki global contributions). Example: 10:55, 20 July 2017.
Outline of problem
[edit]Many diffs show unhelpful changes of this nature:
- Adding many unlikely or unhelpful or blatantly false assertions, often with {{citation needed}} tags.
- Adding unhelpful empty sections, sometimes with an {{empty section}} tag.
- Adding nonsensical dates ("as of 2018...", or "active since 1990" contradicting a known start date of 1994).
- Adding fake statistics with {{citation needed}} ("69,000,000" registered domains at .co and .ng and .sn).
- Nonsensical edit summaries, for example:
- 500 Internal Server Error
- ARREST OF 8 SAMPAGA MEMBERS FOR THE MURDER OF 7 COLOBONG MEMBERS
- IMBESTIGADOR JULY 22, 2017 (see Imbestigador)
- MURDER SENSENG (see Sensing Murder)
- OBJECT REFERENCE NOT SET TO AN INSTANCE OF AN OBJECT
- S.O.C.O. JULY 22, 2017 (see S.O.C.O. (Scene of the Crime Operatives))
Reliable sources
[edit]ICANN manages the process whereby domain names are allocated on the Internet. Page 117 of their document ICANN study on the African DNS market states:
- "Research data† from November 2016 indicates that a total of just over 2.9 million domains are active under the African ccTLDs."
- [This shows the absurdity of the above 69,000,000 value for Nigeria and Senegal.]
The †research data page includes a table with counts of all domains in each TLD. An extract from that table follows. The "spurious count" column shows values entered by the IP.
TLD | Domain count | Spurious count |
---|---|---|
.al | 17,072 | 690,000 |
.ci | 8,837 | 9,500,000 |
.co | 2,186,090 | 69,000,000 |
.gm | 1,521 | 650,000 |
.in | 1,812,048 | 945,699 |
.ng | 71,715 | 69,000,000 |
.pe | 83,032 | 500,000 |
.ph | 76,889 | 690,000 |
.sn | 4,369 | 69,000,000 |
Sample of diffs
[edit]- .al by 86.134.240.162 diff 19:07, 7 July 2017
- Added
- Presently, these .al website domains increased to 690,000 making them the very popular .al domain since 2018.
- which has the made-up "690,000" and future 2018 date.
- Added
- .ci by 86.134.240.162 diff 19:01, 7 July 2017
- .co by 81.135.204.201 diff 15:19, 19 July 2017
- Included
- actualuse = Very Popular in Colombia; .CO top level domain has become the leading global alternative to .com for innovators, entrepreneurs and startups. This domain is also widely used in Colombia.
- (other articles have similar "very popular" language; examples below).
- Included
- registereddomains = 69,000,000
- Included future date:
- As of 2018, this domain is re-established by Colombian Network Information Center.{{citation needed}}
- Included (URL added twice)
- http://www.nic.net.co Colombian Network Indormation Center - in Colombia (another website)
- but that URL is for a non-existent domain.
- Included
- .gm by 86.134.240.162 diff 21:20, 5 July 2017
- Included:
- actualuse=Very Popular in the Gambia; uses primarily and Frequently
- registereddomains=650,000
- Included:
- .in by 86.134.240.162 diff 14:58, 8 July 2017
- Included:
- registereddomains = 945,699
- http://www.nic.net.in/
- but that URL displays:
- If you are seeing this message, the website for is not available at this time.
- Included:
- .ng by 86.134.240.162 diff 09:25, 6 July 2017
- Included
- registereddomains=69,000,000
- and
- http://www.nic.ng/ Nigerian Network Information Center (another website)
- but that URL shows a "Buy this domain" parked domain.
- Included
- .ng by 81.135.204.201 diff 10:22, 23 July 2017
- Included six empty sections, each with {{empty section}}, and
- As of 2017, they are currently 90,969 domains registered, currently, they are 69,000,000 domains registered in the .ng Domain.{{citation needed}}
- while the infobox said
- Registered domains 90,969 (July 22, 2017)[1]
- the [1] source in the article takes a long time to display, but it clearly verifies 90,969.
- Included six empty sections, each with {{empty section}}, and
- .pe by 86.134.240.162 diff 14:26, 8 July 2017
- Included:
- registereddomains=500,000
- Included:
- .pe by 81.135.204.201 diff 10:31, 23 July 2017
- Added
- 9 made-up factoids, each with {{citation needed}}
- 4 unhelpful empty sections, each with {{empty section}}
- Added
- .ph by 86.134.240.162 diff 20:20, 14 July 2017
- Included
- sponsor = PH Domain Foundation, http://www.nic.net.ph/ Philippine Network information Center
- but that URL shows a "This domain may be available" parked domain with text unrelated to domains.
- Included
- registereddomains = 690,000
- Included
- .sn by 81.135.204.201 diff 20:02, 22 July 2017
- Included:
- Registered domains 69,000,000 (June 27, 2017){{citation needed}}
- Included:
- Masgouf by 81.135.204.201 diff 15:50, 24 July 2017
- Added (this example shows that more than ccTLD articles are subject to nonsense):
- -Turkish{{citation needed}}
- Added (this example shows that more than ccTLD articles are subject to nonsense):