[WEB4LIB] Re: stolen domain?

[Dan Lester]

This has happened to hundreds, if not thousands, of domains.  Maybe
more than that for all I know.

http://www.caldwellid.org/ was the Caldwell, Idaho, chamber of
commerce.  They moved.  They changed email addresses.  Neither the
email or snailmail bills reached them.  No one was aware enough to
have a domain name invoice reminder on a calendar, or to check it from
time to time.  It expired.  The domain was grabbed by another outfit,
which has it to sell, and which has adult content on it meanwhile. I'm
sure that the new owners would sell it back to the CofC for extra
bucks.  Instead, they quickly bought:

http://www.caldwellidaho.org/

Hey, it is like forgetting to renew your driver's license, pay your
taxes, or anything else.

cheers

dan


Monday, August 27, 2001, 10:22:38 AM, you wrote:

AM> The moral of the story is that the only way to control the content of
AM> "your"
AM> web site is to control the domain where it resides.  Otherwise, you are
AM> subject to your domain host being hijacked, evaporating, transferred,
AM> merged, etc.  I don't know all the details of this situation but from what
AM> I've read, the domain owner failed to re-register the domain.  Someone else
AM> seeing a domain with potential traffic and an opportunity to make money
AM> either through advertising or re-selling the domain name snapped it up.  If
AM> that is the case, what happened was legally fair and square.  The blame
AM> goes
AM> on the person who owned and then lost the domain.




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