[Sca-cooks] Fw: Master Huen's website

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Sounds very similar to what happened to our household domain, though we
had let our registration lapse. We didn't think a domain name was really
worth it when everyone and his twin brother will host a 5mb page for free,
so we let it go . . .
    Some gomer called 'Nefidar Truesilver' registered it, and then held it
for ransom, saying that if we didn't cough up, he was going to register our
house name with all the search engines as a teen porn site. In addition, he
was personally vicious to our webmistress - he has something against her,
but won't say what . . . We laughed at him concerning the hijacked name (I
mean, who on earth would go to a porn site called Harpers Raid?), and have
offered to pummel him senseless for his comments regarding the lady.
    He was soundly cyber-beaten, and went off penniless. I don't think he
was SCA, though he might have been at one point. Virtual crime . . .
anachronists, indeed!

    Sieggy


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> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > Forwarded from Master Huen (via SCA Laurels list)
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> > > >
> > > > Hello - I need to let all of you know what has happened to my site.
> > > >
> > > > A few days ago my domain name, godecookery.com, was essentially
> > > > hacked and stolen by someone who then sold the name to a commercial
> > > > site located in Atlanta. Anyone who now attempts to access any
> > > > godecookery.com site is being sent to Expressview Credit card or
some
> > > > other commercial site.
> > > >
> > > > The person who stole the name and the person who bought it were both
> > > > aware of the amount of hits godecookery.com generates and are now
> > > > using those hits for their own personal profit. They have offered to
> > > > sell me back the rights to my own property for only $200.
> > > >
> > > > Fortunately, both people have been identified, and my host providor
> > > > is doing what it can to resolve the matter. We're even considering
> > > > legal action, as this violates the policies of Bulkregister, who
> > > > handled the domain registration.
> > > >
> > > > In the meantime, I have had no email since last Tues and have had to
> > > > change my main address to jlmatterer at yahoo.com
> > > >
> > > > All Gode Cookery websites are available by changing the .com in the
> > > > address to .net - please spread the word that this is possible!
> > > >
> > > > The PDF site is available at
> > > > http://www.godecookery.net/maillist/pdffiles.htm
> > > > and I'm ready to stream files to anyone who'll write me at the new
> > > > address.
> > > >
> > > > Wish me luck!
> > > > Jim