[talmand]

Is anyone else disturbed by the idea that the host provider offered to "turn off the DNS to the site" for some person just because they contacted him? Then passed along the domain owner's personal info to that person? Hopefully they asked for permission before handing out personal info. But how did they explain the outage to their customer?

"Oh, we shut you down because somebody we don't know wants to talk to you. Do you mind if we give him your current email address? By the way, what is your current email address?"

Seems it might be of service to several people to know who this provider is.

[hnwh]

unless they transfered it elsewhere, looks like Godaddy..

getting someone else's domain shut down though is unbelievably fuk'd up.. this alone turns me off of the site

   Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
   Domain Name: WEDGIES.COM
      Created on: 19-Feb-99
      Expires on: 19-Feb-14
      Last Updated on: 04-May-12

[talmand]

Since the domain changed hands we can't assume they are the original host (correct term? registrar?) in this case. If I had bought a domain and the provider had done that then the first thing I would have done is switch it to someone else.