BNMQ.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.