Ross:
You guys are definitely not perfect, far from it. Your lack of perception
is indefensible as is the fact that you fail to run your business according
to Moral or Business Principles! Your knee jerk defensive reaction to the
certified misdeeds of rogue RSP's is hardly defensible or moral, and
certainly not based on any principle other than "save your ass". Do you
remember Scott Byers, the 15 year old RSP from Canada that was behind the
Playstation 2 fraud -- he was defended by you guys, you took no notice of
the rest of us who were screwed by his earlier cons. I am still getting
calls from anxious mothers who he has lately targeted while out on bail, and
calls from the Royal Canadian Police Detectives charged with gathering
evidence to convict him. And you still have not transferred his fraudelent
domains from my system! I am still unable to access my own domains he
registered fraudelently with someone else's money! How many other
underage juveniles with a propensity for devil worshipping sex sites and
screwing the public online do you have in your stable? Get it together.
Michael
1-800-873-9012
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WebWiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: RE: Hijacked domain returned to rightful owner
> It's The Register - what did you expect? They're not exactly known as
being
> a bastion of journalistic excellence.
>
> Personally, anything that even remotely looks like it contains editorial
> content masquerading as news is passed over by me...
>
> -rwr
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of WebWiz
> > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:12 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Hijacked domain returned to rightful owner
> >
> >
> > The details as related in this story make absolutely
> > no sense.
> >
> > Something's missing here, as none of this holds together
> > when the "logic probe" is applied to it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Eric Longman
> > Atl-Connect Internet Services
> >
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 2:41 PM
> > Subject: Hijacked domain returned to rightful owner
> >
> >
> > Not the best PR for OpenSRS.
> >
> > Hijacked domain returned to rightful owner
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18619.html
> >
> > The case of the dropped domain and the PR company that we covered
> > last week
> > has been sorted out - with it returning to the original owners.
> >
> > Last Monday, we revealed how Portfolio Metrica were aghast when their
> > company
> > Web site disappeared to be replaced with an American site
> > offering free ISP
> > access. We spoke to the site's new owner, Mark Duance, who claimed he
had
> > grabbed the domain www.portfoliocomms.com legally. On the
> > Wednesday, he put
> > the domain up for auction on eBay.
> >
> > Over the weekend, Portfolio Metrica managed to take back the domain and
> > replace its original site by proving to Tucows (the new
> > registrar) who they
> > were. Mark Duane emailed us to register his displeasure.
> >
> > There are clearly several questions here: Was the domain legally re-
> > registered? How does the change take place first of all? And what can
> > companies and individuals do to make sure they don't wake up to the same
> > scenario?
> >
> > Portfolio Metrica clearly feels it was badly done by and is
> > overjoyed it has
> > its domain back. "Our domain name was taken unlawfully," said company
> > director Mark Westaby, "but we've got it back and we're very pleased
about
> > that."
> >
> > It would also appear that despite Mr Duane's assurance he did
> > nothing wrong
> > that the name was not legitimately taken. The problem lies in renewal
> > notices. Because Portfolio Metrica's original registrar had gone bust,
the
> > forwarding information was somehow lost. Mr Duane re-registered one of
> > Portfolio's domains and subsequently received the renewal notices. Thus
he
> > became aware of the other domains that Portfolio had registered -
> > including
> > portfoliocomms.com.
> >
> > Obviously this raises an enormous number of legal and protocol
questions.
> > One
> > apparent expert on such matters backed up the resulting decision to hand
> > back
> > the domain to Portfolio. The new whois did not offer a new registration
> > date. "The domain was re-registered on opensrs," said Domaingator on
> > Afternic.com. "Opensrs automatically creates a NEW date the date
> > it was re-
> > registered if the name was actually expired (ie., released by Network
> > Solutions Inc). No exceptions. The April date likewise is suspicious.
The
> > name was ON Hold for Payment but was not yet released by NSI.
> > Case closed."
> >
> > Despite this, it would seem that we are looking in the mouth of
> > an enormous
> > increase in these types of problems as the two-year renewal date
> > arrives for
> > most companies' Web sites. Software is freely available on the Internet
> > which, with a bit of know-how, can get you first to any dropped
> > names. It is
> > clear that the Internet's DNS is not sufficiently water-tight to prevent
> > argument of rightful owner of a particular Web site.
> >
> > Unless someone - the NSI basically - gets their act in order, this will
> > become a big, big problem (maybe NSI is too busy working out how
> > it entrench
> > itself in the .com domain to bother actually running it).
> >
> > You heard it here first. �
> >
> >
>
>
