More on the AA situation
Apr. 28th, 2006 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiBNMQ.com, the entity that managed to get ArtisticAlley to point to their site, shows up a few times in Google as a spammer, and as a hijacker. I'd love to be able to get some press on this situation, because this is clearly not the first time it's happened, but in the non-industry press, I've haven't seen much coverage - if any - of this kind of situation. If anyone wants to do more investigation of the Bad Guys, that would be great.
The situation is this - they hide their real name and address on their domain name registration things, and instead, they've used a company called PrivacyProtect.org as their address/contact information, but, of course, PrivacyProtect's phone number didn't work *either*. So, luckily, Google allowed me to google for the address on the registration - 14781 Memorial Dr. Suite # 792 in Texas - which led me to www.publicdomainregistry.com, who do have a working phone number, which I called. So they told me how to report it via their website, which I did via this page. While I don't normally recommend sending barrages of emails to registrants, if we don't get results from them by the end of the day today, I can't see a downside to people making legitimate complaints about BNMQ.com via their Report a False WHOIS page, as, well, it is false WHOIS info, isn't it?
Just so the techies can have it, the DNS they switched everything to is NS1.bnmq.com and NS2.bnmq.com.
The situation is this - they hide their real name and address on their domain name registration things, and instead, they've used a company called PrivacyProtect.org as their address/contact information, but, of course, PrivacyProtect's phone number didn't work *either*. So, luckily, Google allowed me to google for the address on the registration - 14781 Memorial Dr. Suite # 792 in Texas - which led me to www.publicdomainregistry.com, who do have a working phone number, which I called. So they told me how to report it via their website, which I did via this page. While I don't normally recommend sending barrages of emails to registrants, if we don't get results from them by the end of the day today, I can't see a downside to people making legitimate complaints about BNMQ.com via their Report a False WHOIS page, as, well, it is false WHOIS info, isn't it?
Just so the techies can have it, the DNS they switched everything to is NS1.bnmq.com and NS2.bnmq.com.
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:16 pm (UTC)