X-Original-To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5745492642F for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:40:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11571-05 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:40:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [212.100.226.116]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46BD99263B0 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:40:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 85591 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2003 15:43:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Iavor) (62.178.21.98) by thing.verysmall.org with SMTP; 2 Jun 2003 15:43:27 -0000 From: "Iavor Raytchev" To: Cc: "C. Maj" , "Bartus. L" , "Brett Schwarz" , "Constantin Teodorescu" , "Stanislav Grozev" Subject: pgaccess.org domain 'stolen' by Register.com Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:40:41 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <200306021001.32066.kar@kakidata.dk> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Archive-Number: 200306/14 X-Sequence-Number: 4225 Hi all, I have to apologise for the downtime of pgaccess.org - the reason is that based on some strange facts Register.com changed the registration of the domain replacing all our details with their details and shutting the domain down. I have been trying to receive some meaningful answer from them for days - but all they say is that they protect the owner of the domain (which is me and Teo), as somebody tried to steal it. It is very interesting how they protect us by shutting the domain down and replacing all our data with their own. The 'stealing' is that I used my new credit card when paying the domain for another year. Now they want a proof that I am I. Seems they can not check the credit card and see that it belongs to the same person. Quite a mess given the fact that I have user name and password for my account there and the payment was done through these user name and password. If somebody tried to steal my domain this way - I should be worried about the general security of Register.com and move all domains we have with them to another register. And I can't see anything protective in shutting the domain down (more than 7 000 people used to visit pgaccess.org each month) and changing our legitimate domain data with their own. We will try to prove that we are we - in the meantime we have moved the pgaccess wiki to pgaccess.verysmall.org (this might take a while to propagate). There will be published details what will happen next. If you have any dealings with Register.com - have all that in mind. We are personally thinking of moving to OpenSRS for now. It is much cheaper and has an interface for companies that operate less than 150 domains. Best, Iavor