The opendarwin .com debacle

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Wed Oct 14 16:12:16 PDT 2009


>>> It appears the owner has turned to the dark side. Without getting  
>>> into too much of a cat and mouse game, what about some very basic  
>>> counter measures?
>>
>> Indeed, there is another domain suffix "protected" so you cannot  
>> tell who registered it.  At least I didn't know about this  
>> additional one until today.
>
> What is it, it is not .net as far as I can tell, which seems to be  
> available.

.info (72.52.206.10)

>>> Isn't the site is violation of some aspect of some license of some  
>>> form? If that is the case, make him release his source, or stop,  
>>> or whatever we can find to make this go away.
>>
>> It is a violation:  all rights for access to content on  
>> macports.org are RESERVED.  We can technically already slap him  
>> with a takedown notice.
>
> Can you find the ISP?  I do not think there would be a lot of luck  
> hitting up register.com, as domain take downs are a nasty road to go  
> down.

208.185.168.32.zipmath.com (208.185.168.32)

Additionally, the .info trace ends here:
vz223.liquidweb.com (72.52.206.76)

> Unless someone tells me it is a bad idea, I would like to send Matt  
> a friendly email, telling him he is doing more harm than good, and  
> ask him to shut the site down, or redirect it to an appropriate  
> spot.  Ideally he would give up the domain name.

I'd suggest reviewing the pervious correspondence first.  Does anyone  
have a link to the email archives?



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