The High Road has had their domain name hijacked

[MyopicJoe]

For you pro-gun folks out there, it looks like a volunteer sysadmin secretly transferred domain ownership to himself, is holding the forum database hostage, and has shut the site down.

Downtime

I'll have the board up tomorrow, with details about this outage. Thanks for your patience.

-- Derek


Man, that's just dirty. I think he picked the wrong bunch of Americans to mess with. I suspect his home address will be passed around the web soon.


Ryan: please don't let this happen to HT; we love it too much! :eek:

[MyopicJoe]

Looks like the registrar was GoDaddy. Guess we'll see how good their domain theft response is.

Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Registrant Name: Derek Zeanah
Registrant Street1:470 Country Club Road
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Statesboro
Registrant State/Province:Georgia
Registrant Postal Code:30458
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.4048065831
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:+1.9128523523
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:derek@zeanah.comDerek, Derek, Derek. Should have used a P.O. Box (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=470+Country+Club+Road,+Statesboro,+Georgia&sll=32.440303,-81.805959&sspn=0.007841,0.013819&ie=UTF8&ll=32.438837,-81.807632&spn=0.015683,0.027637&t=h&z=15). Unless of course his real name isn't Derek. In that case, some poor innocent guy will get his home shot up.

[MyopicJoe]

Looks like THR is back up, and Derek has posted up his side of the story (http://www.thehighroad.org/announcement.php?f=2). I have to admit he's pretty well spoken.

Sounds like a typical business situation. Both sides worked hard to develop the forum, and they can't agree on a division of ownership. Derek has done the behind-the-scenes, unglamorous job of keeping the site running. Oleg built the community.

ATM I'm leaning towards Oleg, because building a community is a lot harder than maintaining the server. Not to belittle the work a sysadmin has to do, to keep a site running, but it's not like Derek is running something complicated like Amazon or eBay. Then again I've never admin'ed a forum, so I don't really know the pain.

[MyopicJoe]

My friend made a very good point. THR has had up to 10K viewers on at the same time. My friend is guessing Derek wants to run ads on THR, to monetize the site. Oleg wants to keep the site pure. They disagree. Lawyers.

[lavagal]

The High Road has had ITS domain name hijacked. Yes, I LOATHE bad grammar. So shoot me, LOLOLOL.

[MyopicJoe]

Haha, that made me smile :)

Thanks for taking the time and effort to improve my grammer, LG. I wrote "The High Road" (a thing) and then my mind slipped into thinking about the community.

Ok. How about this, to get your feathers ruffled:

"The High Road has had it's domain name hijacked"

:rolleyes::D

[Leo Lakio]

Well, at least your cry for correction kept this from remaining a "talking-to-yourself" thread, MJoe. I was starting to worry about you...;)

[MyopicJoe]

Well, at least your cry for correction kept this from remaining a "talking-to-yourself" thread, MJoe. I was starting to worry about you...;)

Haha :D Yes, I was having quite a brain dump this morning.


Thanks for your concern, LL. I enjoy talking to myself. Outwitting myself makes me feel superior.

[lavagal]

Haha :D Yes, I was having quite a brain dump this morning.


Thanks for your concern, LL. I enjoy talking to myself. Outwitting myself makes me feel superior.

Sometimes I'm the only person who pays attention to me! It's just not a good place to be, AIN'T IT? lol.

[MyopicJoe]

Sometimes I'm the only person who pays attention to me! It's just not a good place to be, AIN'T IT? lol.

Heh. Especially when we're our own worst critics.