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Gizmodo | Man Gets 20 Years in Jail for Trying to Steal a Domain Name at Gunpoint Gizmodo There were 332,198 robberies in the US last year according to the FBI, but (probably) only one of them involved a man trying to forcibly steal a domain name. Now the man responsible for the bizarre instance of domain hijacking will spend 20 years in ... |
SmartCompany.com.au | “Sham operation” which sent SMEs fake domain name renewal letters fined $2 million by the ACCC SmartCompany.com.au A group of domain name companies who scammed Australian small business owners out of a collective $2.3 million have been penalised by the Australian Federal Court and ordered to pay fines of nearly $2 million for breaching Australian Consumer Law. Thousands of businesses ripped off in domain con Domain Corp fined $1.95m for legal breach |
Tech Times | Iowa Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Stealing A Domain Name At Gunpoint Tech Times In June last year, Hopkins, 43, broke into the apartment of a web entrepreneur in Cedar Rapids, and demanded that he transfer the ownership of the domain name "DoItForState.com" through the web hosting company GoDaddy while pointing a handgun at ... |
Domain Name Wire | Three companies using new TLDs – DNW Podcast #190 Domain Name Wire Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | RSS · Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your iPhone or iPad, view on Google Play Music, or click play below or download to begin listening. (Listen to previous podcasts here.). |
Domain Name Wire | Proeza, SA nailed for reverse domain name hijacking for failure to disclose Domain Name Wire In a common occurence, company fails to disclose prior corresondence and misleads panel. Here's a common pattern in cybersquatting disputes under the UDRP: A company reaches out to the domain name owner in an effort to either buy the domain or ... |
Domain Name Wire | Donuts acquires .Fan after registry fails Domain Name Wire Donuts, one of the original applicants for .fan, acquires it from failing registry. The owner of .fan and .fans has failed, and Donuts was more than happy to pick up .fan–a domain name it originally applied for. Donuts announced today that it has “re ... Donuts Announces Acquisition of .Fan Top-Level Domain |
Domain Name Wire | Man Who Tried to Forcibly Steal Domain Name Gets 20 Years U.S. News & World Report The records say Hopkins acknowledged breaking into the man's home on June 21 last year, brandishing a stolen handgun and demanding that the man get on his computer and move the domain name of doitforstate.com from one account to another. Man gets 20 years in prison for trying to steal a domain name |
Motherboard | The Guy Who Robbed Someone at Gunpoint for a Domain Name Is Getting 20 Years in Jail Motherboard On Thursday, 43 year-old Iowa man Sherman Hopkins Jr. was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to forcibly steal a domain name from another man at gunpoint in 2017. Domain hijacking, when someone illegally gains control of another person's ... Man gets 20 years in prison after trying to steal domain name |
Ubergizmo | Man Sent To Jail For Attempting To Hijack Domain Name At Gunpoint Ubergizmo Domain names are pretty important when it comes to creating a brand identity. Imagine if your favorite brand had a weird domain name that was hard to remember, or imagine if Google wasn't at Google.com and was at some weird and lengthy URL, wouldn't ... Internet 'domain jacker' jailed for 20 years over armed website heist Man who sought control of website name at gunpoint sentenced to jail for 20 years |
Computerworld Australia | Federal Court slaps Domain Name company with AU$1.95m scamming fine ZDNet Local domain name registrars Domain Corp Pty Ltd and Domain Name Agency Pty Ltd, trading also as Domain Name Register, have been ordered by the Federal Court to cough up AU$1.95 million in penalties for breaching Australian Consumer Law. Domain name businesses fined $1.95m over 'renewal' notices Domain name registrars ordered to pay nearly $2M over billing claims Domain name scam cops $2m fine |
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