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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