Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:32:50 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreshPorts fraud Message-ID: <3FD0A522.2000502@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <xzp8ylrjnez.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <3FCF887E.7562.4A7C8BE3@localhost> <20031205150152.GM63350@submonkey.net> <xzp8ylrjnez.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> writes: > >>To their credit, absolutely nothing, as far as I'm concerned. This is >>an outright abuse, and if I were you I'd lodge a complaint with ICANN to >>get the domain transferred to you. > > The side has been taken down, so it's hard to prove any wrong-doing. > If the perps decide to fight the charges, it'll be Dan's word against > theirs. The fact that Dan has had freshports.org for two and a half > years while freshports.net was only registered two weeks ago would > certainly help Dan's case, but I'm not sure that it would be enough. > The complaints also cost money. > > A fraud suit backed with evidence from from PayPal might work, except > the perps are in Sweden, so the cost of litigation would be truly > horrendous, and it might turn out to be nearly impossible for a > Swedish court to subpoena evidence from PayPal. > > The only practical recourse is for people who have actually donated > money to file a complaint with PayPal. From what I've heard, PayPal > generally (and summarily) sides with the donor in cases like this. > That policy can spell real trouble for the recipient if the complaints > are false, but in this case it works to Dan's advantage. Donors would > get their money back, and the perps would lose their PayPal account, > but not much else would happen. Almost makes me wish I had donated money, so I could help out by complaining! -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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