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Internet domains are becoming increasingly desirable, especially as the web becomes crowded and it becomes harder to find memorable addresses. However, one man unfortunately took this to a violent extreme. Iowa resident Sherman Hopkins Jr. has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for attempting to steal control of doitforstate.com (which doesn't currently point anywhere) in an armed robbery.
Hopkins pleaded guilty to invading a home in June 2017 and demanding that that [sic] the victim (Ethan Deyo) transfer the domain through GoDaddy while pointing a pistol at his head. When Deyo asked for the mailing address and phone number he needed to complete the domain, Hopkins pistol-whipped and tased him several times. Deyo managed to get control of the gun and shoot Hopkins, but only after Hopkins had shot him in the leg.
Domain name armed hijacking?
[Updated to correct typo in title: replaced "Robery" with "Robbery"... glad you had some fun at our expense in the comments!]
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday July 19 2018, @10:47PM (1 child)
Alas, when the .eu market opened, by 00:00:10, asdf.eu had already been registered by a robot. Fuck it, I don't need all these TLDs, in particular new fangled modern ones that I don't even believe in!
And you wouldn't believe the amount of spam these asdf.* domains get, it's almost as if people are just strumming randomly on their keyboards when asked for email addresses :(
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday July 19 2018, @10:59PM
Well that was weird. I replied to you, but it was on the main thread. I need coffee :)
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