That's a shame. Now I can't do anything at ZomboCom.
The only limit is yourself!
ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover
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Re: ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover
#32That's like when the Library of Alexandria was burned
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#33Re: ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover
#34I guess the hacker could do anything… at zombocom
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#35Re: ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Registration expires, someone snaps it up immediately. It happened to a customer of mine with a domain that was their name. It pointed at a page saying it was available for sale for $4000.
Don't domain registars auto-renew domains for you?
If your credit card is current. One of the "oh, this gets into trouble" is when you do a 10 year registration paid in advance and the credit card on file expires before the auto-renewal time.
The registrar will poke you, and put up warnings when you log into the server to check on your account that your auto renewal is coming up soon and the card on file has expired.
But if you're not paying attention to your domain registrations, or the renewal reminder emails get sent to the spam folder, or you've lost access to the original email address that you had to register it a decade ago, then godaddy is quite happy to put up a lander page with some inflated price on it and sell it to someone else.
Re: ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover
#37How does a hacker steal a website? So many questions.
I mean... anything is possible at zombocom
Re: ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah that’s because it’s not what happened. It’s a common expiration snipe.
Except the domain did not expire, if you check WHOIS.
Oh my bad. Top comment when I had said this was a claim that it was expiration related. Sorry for piling on to the claim.
Re: ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's neither hacking nor stealing
Legally and technically no, but it borders on both...
No it doesn't. If you were careless and let your domain expire, anyone can register it. There is no legal gray area here.
If you otherwise have a copyright claim to the name that's a separate issue.