I have had L5-development.com registered with InterNIC for several years for my business, The L5 Development Group, Inc., a New Hampshire corporation. Because the State of New Hampshire saw fit to send me to jail for the heinous crime of DRIVING (no accidents, no injuries, no property damage, just driving), I was unable to conduct my business for five months. During this time, someone apparently registered my domain name with your service on August 27, 2000, as shown by this InterNIC WhoIs result: ------------------------ Start WhoIs Report ------------------------- Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: L5-DEVELOPMENT.COM Registrar: TUCOWS.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net Referral URL: www.opensrs.org Name Server: NS1.BEAVUH.ORG Name Server: NS2.BEAVUH.ORG Updated Date: 27-aug-2000 >>>Last update of whois database: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 05:52:25 EDT <<< The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and Registrars. ------------------------- End WhoIs Report -------------------------- When I found this report, I went to your site, where I got this WhoIs report: ------------------------ Start WhoIs Report ------------------------- Whois info for, l5-development.com: Registrant: INDIVIDUAL 14 SHEFFIELD ROAD PONSONBY AUCKLAND, NA N/A NZ Domain Name: L5-DEVELOPMENT.COM Administrative Contact: REJECTION, SOCIAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 SHEFFIELD ROAD PONSONBY AUCKLAND, NA N/A NZ 6496230754 Technical Contact: REJECTION, SOCIAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 SHEFFIELD ROAD PONSONBY AUCKLAND, NA N/A NZ 6496230754 Billing Contact: REJECTION, SOCIAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14 SHEFFIELD ROAD PONSONBY AUCKLAND, NA N/A NZ 6496230754 Record last updated on 20-Sep-2000. Record expires on 27-Aug-2001. Record Created on 27-Aug-2000. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.BEAVUH.ORG 216.151.130.163 NS2.BEAVUH.ORG 216.99.44.231 ------------------------- End WhoIs Report -------------------------- As you can see, the "registrant" is using what appears to be a bogus identity, created solely for the purpose of attempting to extort money to recover possession of my Web address. This suspicion is further enhanced when the following message bounce report was received when I attempted to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ask why they had my domain name registered: ---------------------- Start Bounced Mail Report -------------------- Returned mail: Local configuration error >From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Returned mail: Local configuration error >Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:03:05 -0400 (EDT) > >The original message was received at Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:03:05 -0400 (EDT) >from f229.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.31.229] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >554 MX list for socialreject.com. points back to illicit.minimumeffort.com >554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Local configuration error ----------------------- End Bounced Mail Report --------------------- Because this URL registration is quite obviously an attempt to hijack my domain name for immoral, and probably unlawful, purposes, I must request that you immediately cancel the registration in your records, so that I can re-register l5-development.com for its proper use. Please inform me as soon as this is done. Thank you for your time and cooperation. -- Fred Koschara, President L5 Development Group, Inc. c/o 40 Clough Ave. Manchester, NH 03103 USA 603/591-2465 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
