The company that I work for, like most companies, owns a domain or two. Some are strictly for marketing, some are preemptive registrations, such as the domains that relate to our products, and then there are some that we use to put our applications on. We had been using RegisterFly, which you may or may not know was caught up in a
scandal where the corporate board fired the CEO Kevin Medina for spending too much company money on hookers and liposuction, but not before getting and changing the root passwords to some system of theirs that left complete control of half of the domains registered with them in the hands of said fired guy.
My company took proactive steps, and we moved all of their registrations to GoDaddy, except as Murphy would have it, this critical one that is hosting our web applications. Somehow (I suspect Mr. Asshat CEO in a quest for liposuction and hooker money) this one, most critical domain landed up in the hands of some guy with "SJ Domains" who says his address is in Turkministan, and his email is in the UK, and his name is supposedly "Rishar Maas". The most I could find out about this guy is that it looks like he trades a lot in Russian domains and he is pretty good about covering his tracks in this low level hoodery that he is involved in.
This happened even though our registration never lapsed. As a matter of fact it still wouldn't have lapsed at the time of this writing. But the Whois says that he is the registered owner now of a domain that we have owned since the turn of the friggin' century (sounds a lot longer than 7 years). But at the time of this discovery it was still pointing at our DNS servers, so everything is still working.
So we of course immediately start to move all of our webapps off of this domain and use another one. Of course, we might as well try to get this domain back. So we contact him. The asshole
immediately sees an opportunity for extortion and changes the DNS servers to point to some parking site he uses and he puts our domain up for auction. We contest the auction, which puts a stop to it, and we tell him this is our domain and nobody gives a crap about it besides us, and while it's worth a quick couple of hundred bucks to us right now to get it back, in a few days we won't give a shit about it because we were well on the way of not needing it.
So Mr. Rishar Asshole Maas tells us he wants more than a thousand dollars for it. We tell him to eat shit and die unless he can somehow bring himself to take $500 for being a lowlife piece of shit thief and being the lowlife piece of shit that Rishar Maas obviously is, he took it. He's probably over in London with Kevin Medina right now blowing it all on whores (or little boys or most likely, given that he is a Turkmenistanian, sheep).
So this first substantive post is in 'honor' of Rishar Maas or the alias owner known as such (Kevin Medina perhaps?) - Domain Thief and All Around Asshole.
