2008-07-25T01:48:56Z http://baddomainthief.com/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blog tag:baddomainthief.com,2008-02-17:835497 BDT Admin 2008-02-17T15:51:48Z 2008-02-17T15:51:48Z Wow, that's horrible, but am I correct in understanding you allowed the domain to expire?  Was it in a grace period that the name was stolen? In this case, you may have some recourse in asking the Registrar (GoDaddy?) to check into it.  They have the authority to reverse the move if they feel it was in their error.  But don't hold your breath with GoDaddy.  They  aren't terribly cooperative in my experience.  However, if it was their fault in letting the name go while it was in a grace period, you would absolutely have legal recourse, and you should pursue it.

There should have been emails sent to you at least a month prior to expiration.  If you did not receive these, I suggest you check the security of your email, as your email might have been hacked by the thief, who deleted the expiry notices from your box in hopes you would forget to renew, and he could then pick up the name easily.  In your case, you're right in that there's not much else you can do to recover the name in the case of expiration through the owners fault.  Unless your site was copyrighted AND you feel like starting an international lawsuit, again there's not much you can do but what you've already done.  However, you could let us know specifically what else you know about the thief, either business or personal-wise so that we could all look out.  You could also possibly try to "buy back" your domain from the thief; a repulsive thought, however it has been done before. 

The key is to continue bringing forth these internet crimes and exposing their details in hopes of educating others.  With enough of these stories we are on our way to pressuring congress to enact easier remedies for the victims, who are truly left bare naked.  I always say, the day a Judge has their domain stolen, is the day I want to be filing my lawsuit!  Best of Luck, BDT admin

 

 

]]> tag:baddomainthief.com,2008-02-13:828347 Oz http://www.natnotes.com 2008-02-13T15:44:21Z 2008-02-13T15:44:21Z domain">http://www.emergencysoft.com">domain thief in Armenia had snared it the minute it became available.

Hey, fair play, right? My bad for not ensuring I had an auto-renew on a PR:4 domain, so now it's his. Fair enough.

I duly went out and got a new domain, http://www.natnotes.com">http://www.natnotes.com">http://www.natnotes.com, and moved my files across to it, and started the arduous business of relinking the site, only to find a few days later that he COPIED my entire site to his.

All logos. All images. All text. Four years worth of articles, all swiped and plonked down in an effort to fool old readers into thinking I was still there.

What a right bastard.

What can be done? Pretty much nothing. His hosting company has been informed, his domain registrar, my readers, in ward linkers, etc etc... but unless I want to file an expensive international lawsuit, I've got to take it on the chin as an expensive lesson.

Or do I...?]]>