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I would also put an alert on kicad-pcb.org warning of different domain extensions  and on the forum...

On 5 December 2015 20:48:00 CET, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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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