Mall.com - stolen name

[stevo]

http://www.mall.com/

Is it my mistake, or is this a waste of a great name. Even if you are waiting for a deep pocketed buyer, wouldn't you try to take advantage of this great name? That website surprised me with the lack of content. Someone with skills (not me) should help this guy out. Negotiate an arrangement beneficial to both parties.

 

[GodBlessYou]

i'd totally agree, I wonder how many typins this domain gets!

 

[draqon]

mall.com is very suspicious, i was tracking it for a while when the previous owners went kaplooey due to fraud and nonsense. then all of a sudden it showed up as a new owner. i highly suspect that either it was stolen or the old owners pawned off the name instead of using the money to pay the people they defrauded.

 

[Joe]

Yes, I was watching the name as well and do recall reading that the (previous?) registrants of this domain were in a heep of trouble with a federal (united states) fraud investigation, where many advertisers were left hung out to dry. If I recall correctly, the advertisers and other creditors were owed millions, as a result of the mall.com execs picking up and leaving with all the loot that was deposited into advertising accounts. There were published articles on the events, that I believe were released to the associated press at the time. Perhaps a search (google?) on the net will uncover some of those archived articles.

With the name now being under a different registrant, it would certainly seem more likely that the domain was stolen by an opportunist, since it is unlikely that the previous registrants were in a position to sell the domain, or would stick around (or return to) the fire to even consider such an option.

-Joe

 

[mole]

kaplooey

:huh:

 

[draqon]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=onomatopoeia

 

[iBizStart]

I used to advertise on mall.com several years ago

 

[Mr. Deleted]

http://web.archive.org/web/20040604165838/http://mall.com/
THat is probably the simplest page they made, and http://web.archive.org/web/20020525140016/http://www.mall.com/ that one the most complicated. But they could build it back useing Adsense like that page above.

1396 links: http://darbyfamily.com/LinkPop/LinkPopTool.asp

 

[Zion]

Yahoo CONVO with seller.



gamersprt: Hello

rokh : hello

gamersprt: So, I am (MY E-MAIL)
rokh : ok

gamersprt: how did you get this domain?

rokh :

rokh : registered for my company on 99

rokh : now they didnt need it

rokh : so i wanna sell it

gamersprt: Where do you live?

rokh : Jordan

gamersprt: Ok

gamersprt: Alot of my friends say you are trying to fraud

gamersprt: I wouldn't want that to happen.

rokh : ok

rokh : if you think

rokh : bye

gamersprt: What?

rokh : i will sell it...

gamersprt: I dont think it is.

rokh : lol

gamersprt: Alot of my friends

gamersprt: Not me.

gamersprt: So, when are you going to sell it?

rokh : Right now

rokh : lol

rokh : when your payment be ready

gamersprt: Should be soon,

gamersprt: But, I am going to give you half the money, and you push the domain, then I send the other half.

gamersprt: If that doesn't work out for you, I dont want the domain.

rokh :

rokh : OK

rokh : i accept

gamersprt: May I ask how old are you?

rokh : 31

gamersprt: What is your phone number?

rokh : i cant speak english well

gamersprt: Phone

gamersprt: Telephone?

gamersprt: Example - 555-555-5555

rokh : 962-6-461-3194


rokh : i know

rokh : i said

rokh : i cant speak good

gamersprt: Ok, sorry.

rokh : on phone

rokh : lol

gamersprt: Did you used to make money off of the domain?

rokh : no

rokh : how ?

gamersprt: lol, you are frauding.

gamersprt: Who did then?

rokh : whats your mean ?

gamersprt: I know several people that advertised on mall.com

gamersprt: you are selling m a l l .com right?

rokh : ?!?

gamersprt: You are selling mall.com

rokh : yes

gamersprt: You've had it since, 1999?

rokh : me no

rokh : my company

rokh : lol

gamersprt: Oh, how are you selling it then?

rokh : im frauding ?


rokh : Bye

rokh :

gamersprt: bye.

rokh : dont pm me agin



FRAUD written all over it.

And, phone # doesn't work for me.

 

[Bashar]

it seems it was stolen yesterday as per whois.sc history

some info at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=395399

i wonder how he stole it though!

btw the number belong to another company in jordan, just called and their support guy answered, he said he knows nothing about mall.com

*btw he speaks arabic

 

[csitenet]

i see he accepted an offer of $200 lol. i personally would pay that even if it was fraud. its worth putting it on a ppc search engine for about 2 month or so till they catch this guy and prove the fraud... by that time you would have gotten plenty of hits on the name and made quite alot of money! then if the owner proved he owned it you can just return the domain

 

[DeCal]

Do these scammers really think that domainers are that stupid to not investigate these things?

 

[csitenet]

Contact
NexGen Solutions


512-345-6255
[email protected]

It appears they are the real owners.

 

[Bashar]

that doesn't show anywhere in the whois history from whios.sc

from where you got it? acrhive.org?

 

[csitenet]

alexa's detail usually doesn't change. when it takes details of a popular domain it takes it from the whois as far as i know unless the user manually adds it!

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=mall.com

So i am pretty certain thats the right details of the owner! Maybe get in touch and let them know!

 

[Mr. Deleted]

Contact
NexGen Solutions


512-345-6255
[email protected]

It appears they are the real owners.

I tryed that number and it don't work anymore either.

 

[csitenet]

Its part of nexgen solutions... but there is plenty of sites called that e.g. http://www.ngsol.com/ etc!

This is nice work i must say. it will be very difficult for the real owner to get it back! But we must also acknowledge we have no proof the name is hijacked and he may very well be the right owner and Not know the price / value of that name!

IMHO i think getting in touch with godaddy (the registrar) is the wisest thing to confirm the name hasn't been hijacked / transfered to this person recently!

 

[Bashar]

maybe someone want to give Louie a call from whois.sc history

 

[csitenet]

i have spare money in my egold! i think i may just take the risk and take the name from him! worse thing that happens is i have to give the name back to the rightful owner! just to check does egold have anti fraud facilities like paypal? or do they just not care?

 

[Mr. Deleted]

Email: [email protected]
Address:360 E. Randolph Street, Suite 3307, Chicago, Illinois 60601
Telephone312)240-1100
Fax(312)240-1718
http://nexgensolutions.com/contacts.htm

I'd like the name too... 3000+ links can't be too bad!