Domain violence – Burglar tries to force a domain transfer, shots ring out

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Interesting article from The Gazette about an incident in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A burglar actually shot a man to get him to transfer a domain name to someone else, the burglar was also shot by the home owner.

From the article:

“(Hopkins) then forced Deyo to log on to his computer and tried to coerce Deyo to transfer a domain name to a third party,” the complaint states. The complaint does not identify the third party.

Cedar Rapids public safety spokesman Greg Buelow confirmed the details of the criminal complaint, but said he could not provide any more information, including identifying the domain name in question

“I can’t give a lot of details on the investigation,” Buelow said. “This domain name is valuable and he wanted that transferred back to someone else.”

Comments

  15. John Berryhill says

    ICANN Transfer Policy Section 3.4.3 specifically requires that if a gun is used, then it has to be 9mm or larger.

  16. Max says

    Another reason to use whois privacy, and/or use a non-home address. Whoever wants to buy your domain, they can simply fill out the enquiry form on your lander, or send an email to the whois privacy email which is then forwarded to your real email address. Avoid registrars that apply a generic privacy-enabled email address such as privacyprotected@someregistrar.com, especially if they charge for such a poor service that won’t forward any email to your address. There is absolutely no reason ones personal information should be made public. For any legal queries, the registrar can provide authorities with the info they need.