my site stolen?
 

ok this is pretty fucked up.

www.hqerosescorts.com is my domain, when it loads it goes to some other site.... my name servers are still the same, all files on the server are the same, yet somehow it redirects to another site....

any ideas?

Looks like eros.com to me hmm

in my namecheap account the dns is still pointing to my host tho?

and eros.com is impossible to get in touch with aswell?

nevermind

never mind what mate?

Sorry mate, I thought I found your problem but when I rechecked I was wrong and edited my post

you have their trademark in your name and you are targetting the same traffic they do. I think they took it. At least it looks that way.

Is this you in the whois, if not then it does appear you do not own the domain any longer. http://whois.domaintools.com/hqerosescorts.com

Looks like Group Kaitu, LLC owns it now.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:helpme

Yep, which is the Company that owns eros.com It appears they did indeed take it from you probably because you infringed on their name. About ten years ago when I was a noob I registered some domain with Yahoo in it and after a few months it suddenly became property of Yahoo.

Eros is just a word....so its not my fault they registered a one word domain back in the day.

Well you could certainly fight it, but I doubt its worth it unless your site was bringing in substantial revenue. At least contact your domain registrar and find out what they got served.

you shouldve gotten some sort of notification from your registrar

oh wow, that is fucked up man. I know you put quite a bit of work into that site too.

weird how they just took over like that

that's really fucked up

Well it loads fine and on the right domain for me... I suggest a good updated anti-virus like AVG free... http://free.grisoft.com/

duno what you see mate but its a landing page for Eros.com......

Ah yah I see I thought you meant that the domain was redirected or somehow hijacked... you mean what's up on that now is not your shit?

Re read the entire thread, then post.

yeah i was pissed when they took - micro-soft.com - it was a tiny dick site - so what if I had a photoshop of bill gates on it

Was it simply that you had the word "eros" in your domain? It appears by your domain you were also promoting escorts, were they the same escorts from eros.com?

Looks like it was taken away by URDP.
I can't post the link, but do a google search for your domain - hqerosescorts.com and the second result is you losing UDRP case.

The whois was private, so you probably never got the notice.

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/d...2008-0263.html

B. Respondent

The Respondent did not reply to the Complainant?s contentions.

That's kind of lame!! I would have thought you had a pretty good case - if you had responded :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_(mythology)
Eros was the primordial god of lust, love, and intercourse - seems like it would be hard for a company to claim rights to that....

Ouch... sucks ass.

Why didnt you respond to the complaint?

I think due to privacy protection on the who is.

Really makes one think if this really could be abused to hell and high water against people hidding who owns a domain.

is there a way i can respond to it now?

i never got a complaint in the first place?

the email is still valid in the whois with WhoisGuard, since it forwards to the domain owners address....so emails should have been received ?...

no emails recieved about someone taking my domain?

Did not see that you had privacy turned on...

That's some fucked off shit

Was the email address in your whois active (i know you had whois protection turned on) back in Feb when they first launched the complaint?

as far as i know it was and still is?

just saw that...a post b4 my email remark ;)

Can you answer this, might explain why they went after your domain.

no i was promoting liondollars escorts. i think it was coz my site was listed up there with eros.com and they just got jealous?

Well in the complaint it said they owned 90+ domains with "eros" in it, so maybe they are vigorously pursuing domains with that word in them.

but you cant exactly just take all domains containing "eros" that promote escorts....

interesting these domain name thingys

nobody owns shit

we're all a bunch of suckas!

Don't be so sure.

Hate to say this but actually they can.
They appear to have a trademark on the word Eros and they are in the escort business. Your domain was just HQerosescorts which just comes off as HQ Eros Escorts. Then you also were in the same line of business which would of been the only possible escape clause.

Think of it this way, it is like making a site that is called:
HQcokesoda -promoting soda.
HQstarbuckscoffee -promoting coffee.

Then they are technically required to protect their trademark or potentially face loosing it if they do not enforce it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_(mythology)
Eros was the primordial god of lust, love, and intercourse - seems like it would be hard for a company to claim rights to that....


how can some promoting escorts make Eros a trademark? when eros is a greek god?

i can agree with your example hqstarbuckscoffee tho.

They file for a trademark, go through the waiting process and then are granted one.
Eros is not the first nor last normal word or phrase used.

Now they can not prohibit someone from using the word Eros when it does not infringe on their business. There is a EROS data center used by the US government that would not infringe on their trademark. There was also a movie by the same name that had some erotica (close but did not infringe).

If someone wanted to get a domain like for example sinsoferos and dedicated it to the Greek god or even a beverage that boosts your sexual abilities would not be infringing on the named trademark.

Hell ask a trademark lawyer they will explain it to your and your frustration.

ah well looks like i got no grounds to stand on....

this is suck

ouch sorry to hear that man

No, not necessarily since the email forwarding on those WhoisGuard addresses only works 10% of the time.

It's namecheap, so chances are they didn't even realize what was going on.