[mdlug] If someone's going to steal your domain...

[Brian]

On Wednesday 24 October 2007 07:59:13 Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> ...they might as well be stupid.
>
>  I was careless and didn't renew my free account with dyndns.com in time,
> and on Saturday someone else swooped in and stole my domain,
> "ingles.homeunix.org", out from under me. A bit of digging turned up an IP
> address served by a company in the U.K.
>
>  In the meantime, I registered "ingles.homeunix.NET" and set things up
> again. Updated a few places that point to my homepage so they weren't
> hitting the wrong place.
>
>  Now, I'd been wondering if this was an honest mistake, someone grabbing a
> domain listed as available... but then yesterday they put up a copy of my
> home page there. (Except it has a funky 'meta' tag.) Just the main page,
> none of the links lead anywhere. That company in the U.K.? "Real
> International Business Corp.", and a bit of Googling indicates that they
> are involved in spamming and link farming. I'd send them a DMCA takedown
> notice except they're in Europe.
>
>  Fortunately, they aren't too bright. Since my webserver is an ancient Mac,
> I'd reduced the load by hosting images at the free web space my ISP gives
> me. And their copy of my web page is still loading an image from there. So
> I tweaked a few things and, well, now there's a great big warning on the
> spammer's page that it's not the real deal.
>
>  Ah, well, I've gotten an education out of the experience. And I've set a
> reminder in my Palm Pilot to renew the account regularly...
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                             (313) 227-2317
>

LOL that's hilarious! Unfortunately although they may be stupid, it appears 
that they're at least attentive and have taken the image out.

-- 
Brian