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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think fabulous is their domain registrar, not the actual owner.  It used
to be that actual owners had to put their contact information in the whois
information, but it was scraped and people sent too much garbage to domain
owners based on that information, so I guess nowadays basically every
registrar puts their own information and "forwards" information on to the
actual owner.

I did a few searches and it looks like Fabulous.com has suspended domains
before because of spam, so this may be something we can actually handle--if
we want to.  I can see it going good or bad, but if do we do choose to
"take action", alerting Fabulous.com that one of the domains they
registered is scam/malware might be a good idea.

Adam Wolf

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 12/5/2015 2:17 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > What do folks normally do for things like this?  Do we need a KiCad
> > trademark before we can start rattling cages at webhosts?
>
> I have no idea what the protocol is here.  If anyone has any useful
> advice, I'm open to suggestion.  Should we at least alert the ironically
> named fabulous.com that they are serving malware under kicad.com or are
> they a shady outfit by trade?  How would we even find out?
>
> >
> > Their registrar is fabulous.com <http://fabulous.com>, and their
> > acceptable use policy is
> > here:
> http://www.fabulous.com/informationcenter/index.htm?formdata%5Bqid%5D=1533
> >
> > It says their services must not be used to "send or distribute any
> > virus, worm, trojan or other malicious code".
>
> Apparently they forgot to read their own service agreement :). Maybe
> their service has been compromised. Sigh! One more thing to deal with
> that really doesn't help move KiCad along.
>
> >
> > Adam Wolf
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Just a warning, the domain (kicad.com <http://kicad.com>) which we
> >     don't control now
> >     distributes malware and scams!
> >
> >     http://i.imgur.com/4GQz7jL.png
> >     http://i.imgur.com/2OzKO1O.png
> >
> >
> >     Kind of sad because this can be fucking over some potential KiCad
> >     users. It seems to attack Chrome and Firefox users.
> >
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