http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/03/22/domain-name-squatting-piracy/ Web Standards, Web Culture, Web Everything.™ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:41:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/03/22/domain-name-squatting-piracy/#comment-173 Mathieu Sylvain Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:45:02 +0000 http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/03/22/domain-name-squatting-piracy/#comment-173 I had my domain hijacked after renewal problem with my registrar… 5 seconds after the expiration; one of those faceless companies stole it and put their damn advertising on it. There is a wait period of 30 days to prevent this, but my registrar was dead silent and didn’t answer my support calls. Since then, because this domain was my own name, this company has received all my mail and owned the primary email address I used for all my online accounts. Remember… those people are scammers… scary! After a couples of months and countless hours of digging to find who was behind this and how I could register a complaint, I was left with only two solution… either pay the 500$ ransom, or drive down to New-Orleans and beat the bejeeses out of two monumental jerks who spend their life doing this. But I didn’t have a driving license. So I tried to forget about it and registered a new domain. There is no other solutions… all the official organizations supposed to resolve those issues are understaffed and only care if a lawsuit is launched by Nike or the likes. So I prayed something really, really, really bad would happen to them… but I never taught good old god would answer my prayers on such a scale! I had my domain hijacked after renewal problem with my registrar… 5 seconds after the expiration; one of those faceless companies stole it and put their damn advertising on it. There is a wait period of 30 days to prevent this, but my registrar was dead silent and didn’t answer my support calls. Since then, because this domain was my own name, this company has received all my mail and owned the primary email address I used for all my online accounts. Remember… those people are scammers… scary! After a couples of months and countless hours of digging to find who was behind this and how I could register a complaint, I was left with only two solution… either pay the 500$ ransom, or drive down to New-Orleans and beat the bejeeses out of two monumental jerks who spend their life doing this. But I didn’t have a driving license. So I tried to forget about it and registered a new domain. There is no other solutions… all the official organizations supposed to resolve those issues are understaffed and only care if a lawsuit is launched by Nike or the likes. So I prayed something really, really, really bad would happen to them… but I never taught good old god would answer my prayers on such a scale!

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