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by lutusp 4468 days ago
The most unfortunate part of this story is that the site owner had to use underhanded tactics of her own to regain control of her site. She didn't get her site back by going through formal legal channels, she got it back by using tactics similar to those used by the criminal she was dealing with. Different intent and legal standing, but same methods.

It would be interesting to know what would have happened if she had instead waited for the legal methods to play out. Instead, it's a story of one trick undoing another trick.
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mannykannot 4468 days ago
That's a more unfortunate part of the story than the registrars' inaction? Or the theft itself? I don't think so.
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lutusp 4467 days ago
> That's a more unfortunate part of the story than the registrars' inaction?

Okay, fair enough, I'll give that fact a close second in the rankings. But to me, the fact that she had to descend to the level of the criminals she was dealing with, had to do things that under slightly different circumstances would have made her a criminal, is the most discouraging part of the account.

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