TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: 11-Sept Police Widow Gets Domain-Cyberburned

11-Sept Police Widow Gets Domain-Cyberburned

Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com)
Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:59:28 -0400

"The widow of a hero NYPD Emergency Service detective killed on 9/11
created a Web site as a loving tribute to her husband -- only to have
it snapped up by a heartless Internet company that forced her to fork
over $800 to buy it back, The Post has learned.

"Kathy Vigiano's gut-wrenching ordeal began in January when she
discovered that her husband Joseph's memorial Web site -- which she
filled with personal photos and an emotional letter from one of their
sons -- had been replaced by ads for penile-enlargement tools,
sexual-performance drugs and Viagra...

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/30859.htm

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Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The very same people did that to our
internet-history.org site as well. If you type in
http://internet-history.org you get the very same preposterous ads.
And of course, the guy wants to sell that one also. I **thought**
there were laws against that sort of cybersquatting, but I guess
that only pertains for large commercial web sites. Any damn fool
would know that 'internet history' was discussed there on the site
which was the property of the Internet Historical Society, which is
*my* name, and it was a running site for three or four years. Yet,
that moron simply walked away with it, got the org registrar to give
it to him I guess.

I had asked John Levine to take it away from the person and give it
back to me. John won't do it. I thought he was one of the registrars
for .org ... so I know how this poor lady feels now as well. But I can
tell you *I* am not going to pay his blackmail ransom demand. If I had
any money I would just sue the damn registrar who took it from me and
gave it to him (I understand he is in some country in Europe. The lady
should not have paid anything either, just immediatly filed suit
against the registrar she had used when she first set up the site and
done it that way. Of course, I have no money to pay any lawyers to
help me, so that leaves me and internet-history.org high and dry. Maybe
some attorney doing pro-bono work will be able to get our site back.
If people would quit paying good money to these charlatans who steal
the names that netizens use for their web sites, then they would go
out of business. PAT]

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