Comments for Domain Investing http://domaininvesting.wordpress.com Blog about domain investing, domainers and domaining Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:33:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Stolen Domains Warning! by Jack Durban http://domaininvesting.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/stolen-domains-warning/#comment-82 Jack Durban Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:33:08 +0000 http://domaininvesting.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/stolen-domains-warning/#comment-82 I got it back! The thief transferred it back to me after a guilt attack. Miracles do happen! I got it back! The thief transferred it back to me after a guilt attack.

Miracles do happen!

]]> Comment on Stolen Domains Warning! by Jack Durban http://domaininvesting.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/stolen-domains-warning/#comment-81 Jack Durban Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:31:34 +0000 http://domaininvesting.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/stolen-domains-warning/#comment-81 If someone steals something of value here in the states we call the police and they take a statement and initiate an investigation. Sometimes the property is recovered and the thief prosecuted. All this is undertaken without cost locally and without attorneys or empaneled "impartial" arbiters. If however someone working at Godaddy a U.S. company steals a domain from a customer in the U.S. the victim can't call the police because unlike all other thefts this one falls under some obscure remote little known foreign body located on the other side of the planet where really good chocolate comes from. Now here we have a U.S. crime and a U.S. victim yet the victim cannot remedy the crime in his or her own country. The process of recovering a stolen domain involves the hiring of an attorney that specializes in domain theft and bloated ICANN rules and procedures. This attorney will then send a warning letter to the offending basically requesting that they not continue their naughtiness and to return the stolen domain. If after some statutory period of time the crook fails to change his evil ways then the victim can escalate the process by paying ICANN to empanel a few objective justice seekers to take the helm. Now from here who knows what will transpire but the victim will wind up paying thousands of dollars to recover a ten dollar domain. There is something seriously wrong with this bizarre and counter intuitive process that needs to be completely revamped. Seriously could this goofy process be any more arcane or asinine? I think not. Sorry I am an engineer and I can't seem to adapt to nonsensical impractical conditions. I always assume that systems evolve and improve according to a Darwinian like model. If Darwin was faced with recovering a stolen domain he would have shredded his works and let man know that his days were numbered as evolution would cease at the monolith called ICANN. Jack Durban, victim of domain theft and ICANN ineptness and obsolescence. If someone steals something of value here in the states we call the police and they take a statement and initiate an investigation. Sometimes the property is recovered and the thief prosecuted. All this is undertaken without cost locally and without attorneys or empaneled “impartial” arbiters.

If however someone working at Godaddy a U.S. company steals a domain from a customer in the U.S. the victim can’t call the police because unlike all other thefts this one falls under some obscure remote little known foreign body located on the other side of the planet where really good chocolate comes from. Now here we have a U.S. crime and a U.S. victim yet the victim cannot remedy the crime in his or her own country. The process of recovering a stolen domain involves the hiring of an attorney that specializes in domain theft and bloated ICANN rules and procedures. This attorney will then send a warning letter to the offending basically requesting that they not continue their naughtiness and to return the stolen domain. If after some statutory period of time the crook fails to change his evil ways then the victim can escalate the process by paying ICANN to empanel a few objective justice seekers to take the helm. Now from here who knows what will transpire but the victim will wind up paying thousands of dollars to recover a ten dollar domain. There is something seriously wrong with this bizarre and counter intuitive process that needs to be completely revamped. Seriously could this goofy process be any more arcane or asinine? I think not. Sorry I am an engineer and I can’t seem to adapt to nonsensical impractical conditions. I always assume that systems evolve and improve according to a Darwinian like model. If Darwin was faced with recovering a stolen domain he would have shredded his works and let man know that his days were numbered as evolution would cease at the monolith called ICANN.

Jack Durban, victim of domain theft and ICANN ineptness and obsolescence.

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