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A
couple of weeks ago
I told
you about Rick Schwartz's
new HallOfShame.com
website that is shining a light on would
be domain thieves who have been found guilty
of reverse domain hijacking
attempts. The
rogue's gallery at the site is
growing on an almost daily basis with Jet
Go Australia Holdings the latest
to join the line up. They
earned their black eye with a
failed attempt to steal the domain JetGo.com
from industry legend Frank
Schilling. With
Frank's accomplished |
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domain
attorney John Berryhill repeatedly
beating back attempted hijackings it's a
wonder that so many foolish people keep
trying. Clearly they are not doing
their homework (or are being poorly
served by their own attorneys who
should know better) when they try to use
the UDRP
process to steal domains they are not
entitled to from people who have a record
of always defending their assets. |
In
an attempt to get attorneys for complainants who
file baseless claims to think twice, Schwartz, the co-founder
of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference, announced
today that he would be adding an Attorney's
section to HallOfShame.com, naming the
attorneys and firms who have filed cases that
UDRP panelists have determined to be reverse
domain name hijacking attempts. The
expansion comes of the heels of Schwartz's
introduction of a new Scammers
section to the site earlier this week. In
introducing that expansion Schwartz said, "There
are some bad players in our space. Some
are fake bidders. Some are domain name
hijackers. Some just don't complete their
transactions. Some are spammers that lie and
fake you out. So we are going to EXPOSE the low-lifes
of our industry as well as Reverse Domain Name
hijackers with a new special section on
HallOfShame.com."
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Rick
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The
first company Schwartz placed
in the HallOfShame.com
Scammers section is a Canadian outfit that
operates at WebNameSolution.com.
They were quickly followed
by Domain Registry of America, a
slimy operation many of your are already
familiar with. They have been around for
years and gained infamy with their
stock in trade - sending out what appear
to be domain renewal notices to people who
do not have domains registered with
them. They hope recipients will overlook
the easy to miss disclaimers in their
letters and think they are coming from
their own registrar. If the recipient
falls for it they will be sending back
authorization to have their domains
transferred to Domain Registry of America
while paying an exorbitant renewal
price in the process - talk about
adding insult to injury. |
There
are so many ways to make money legitimately
in this industry it is a shame that so many feel
the only way they can do it is to cut corners
and rely deception, misrepresentation and, in
some cases, outright fraud. By shining a light
on those kinds of operators Schwartz hopes HallOfShame.com will help others
avoid being victimized.
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