[jjacobson]

Is what we did terrible?

[grecy]

If you got the DNS turned off on one of my domains for no good reason, I'd be more than a little angry - at you and at my host.

[jjacobson]

Agreed. However, the domain pointed to basically a landing page that said "I want to sell this domain, contact me"

[pavel_lishin]

Who puts up a "Please contact me" page without any way of contacting themselves?

Although this does somewhat excuse the smoke-out; although, couldn't the host simply have contacted the person themselves?