Site Service International loses case for AHI.com.
A company going by the name “Site Service International” has lost a domain name arbitration case for AHI.com. But before you cry “reverse domain name hijacking”, there’s more to this case than meets the eye. According to the complainant AHI Invest GmbH of Vienna, Austria, the domain name was stolen from it.
This isn’t the first time Site Service International has lost a case for a three letter domain name that was allegedly stolen. Since 2007, it has lost a half dozen cases involving three character domain names. In each case the details are similar: the complainant owned a three letter domain name that suddenly changed ownership and was transferred to a new registrar. The company has lost cases for rcw.com, jai.com, vou.com, wsw.com, and ocf.com.
It appears these aren’t the only cases of domain theft. The historical record for NLF.com shows Site Service International used to own it, and it followed the same registrar patterns as the other domains. It was recently transferred to a new registrant.
The Dallas address in whois for Site Service International appears to be an invalid address.
Which begs the question, why isn’t this guy in jail?
I assume most/all of the owners were NOT using one of the free email services. So, how is he doing it?
Is he doing it by social engineering?
(talking his way into the account.)
In answer to your great question Dude. The same reason that hundreds perhaps thousands of hackers are allowed to release wormbots that relentlessly attack and threaten Internet businesses every day.
The plain truth is that when it comes to the people in power in the world … Nobody cares about the Internet.
Just look at the recent attempts to bail out dying newspapers. Proof positive the they would rather pay to save the past then embrace the future.
Thats why people pay for newspapers and want their Internet and web businesses like Myspace, Twiter, and Facebook to be free.
My .02
@DomainInvestor,
Based on Domain-History, my suspicion is that he mass “phished” thousands of 3-letter owners for their username/password by scaring them to login to his look-a-like website.
The cases you see are the ones who took the bait…
That is interesting “site service international” hijack the domain names!? Most of the companies are trying to grab the three letter domain names. I think there should be some policy that these names supposed to be put on auction if no one develops a website.