Zsolt Bikadi
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We've lost a charity business domain (our fault, forgot to renew), that's happening. To our bad luck, it was re-registered by some seo guy, who "restored" the website from wayback and added some links to the restored site.
So the big issue is that this is our charity, these are our photos, our content, our addresses, our contacts, our design etc., it is very painful that our partners think that it is a living site and submit forms, sends emails etc which are obviously not sent to us. And there are many legal aspects of course.
What we tried:
- contacting the registrant (behind privacy protection): no response
- contacting the registrar, internet . bs: they don't care
- contacting the hosting: they don't care
Do you have any idea what we can do to at least turn off the impersonating website? (Of course getting back the domain would be the best but we have no trademark, it is just the name of our charity).
So the big issue is that this is our charity, these are our photos, our content, our addresses, our contacts, our design etc., it is very painful that our partners think that it is a living site and submit forms, sends emails etc which are obviously not sent to us. And there are many legal aspects of course.
What we tried:
- contacting the registrant (behind privacy protection): no response
- contacting the registrar, internet . bs: they don't care
- contacting the hosting: they don't care
Do you have any idea what we can do to at least turn off the impersonating website? (Of course getting back the domain would be the best but we have no trademark, it is just the name of our charity).