Given my ongoing troubles with YouTube, I feel compelled to point this out: “1&1 Internet Has Allowed My Domain to Be Hijacked”. From Patterico:
Look up at the address bar. This is still the Patterico site  but I no longer have the patterico.com domain  even though I renewed it before the expiration date. My domain registrar has apparently seen fit to sell the domain out from under me despite my having taken timely steps to renew it.If they can do this to me, they can do it to you. They can do it to anyone.
Apparently, they have.
It’s best not to ascribe to politics what can just as easily be ascribed to human laziness, dispassion, indifference, greed, or incompetence.
But it’s getting harder to do so by the day.
Comment by Cowboy on 10/24 @ 9:15 am #
Jeff:
I just re-read Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower with my Honors students. I am finding it increasingly difficult to underestimate “human laziness, dispassion, indifference, greed, or incompetence.”
Or, perhaps, these are merely a feature of the new politics, rather than competing sources of general shittiness.
Comment by Hoodlumman on 10/24 @ 9:21 am #
Buy American. That includes internet hosts/providers.
I only say that because Patterico bought his through a UK internet site. That would seem to make it harder if it came to lawyerly things.
Comment by McGehee on 10/24 @ 9:26 am #
For some, laziness, dispassion, indifference, greed, and/or incompetence are their politics.
Comment by McGehee on 10/24 @ 9:28 am #
Buying American might help, but as I commented on Patterico’s post I’ve seen other examples of this kind of thing where the victim had been letting the domain host deal with the registrar, instead of the domain owner dealing with the registrar directly. I’ve never been comfortable with that way of doing things and have always managed my domain registration accounts separately from hosting.
And in the other case of domain hijacking, both the host and registrar were American.
Comment by C Smith on 10/24 @ 9:34 am #
Sounds like a business opportunity for Pajamas Media.
“We host, but do not sodomize”.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 10/24 @ 9:34 am #
Echoes of Sandra Bullock’s salad days
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/24 @ 9:57 am #
Watch out boss.
Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet
Comment by geoffb (JARAIP) on 10/24 @ 10:03 am #
On the Left these are considered to be features and politically useful ones at that.
Comment by ThomasD on 10/24 @ 10:03 am #
Bah, fighter jets are only worth as much as the pilot, and without serious training their ‘worth’ roughly equals that of a target drone.
Now attack aircraft (anything with lots of hardpoints) are another story…
Comment by apotheosis on 10/24 @ 10:04 am #
But remember, the fairness doctrine could never be applied to the internet. So everything’s great, right?
Comment by J. Peden on 10/24 @ 10:08 am #
Never simply ascribe to “snafu”, what can be equally well explained by a bunch of rampaging infants.
Comment by Howie on 10/24 @ 10:19 am #
Your troubles with youtube? It would be interesting to comare your treatment with some of the Jihadis that smackdown is dealing with. Ragnar was suspended multiple times. Each time he reached 3 vids he was dumped. But we have jihadis with 10 12 15 videos removed, yet they remain. Drop me a line with info if you want/have time.
Comment by Brock on 10/24 @ 10:22 am #
We need a “Swiss bank” business culture for Domain Hosting, apparently.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/24 @ 11:50 am #
i want names
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/24 @ 1:51 pm #
We need a “Swiss bank†business culture for Domain Hosting, apparently.
It’s quite possible to run your own domain.
The trouble is getting your users to set things up to connect with the alternate DNS server.
Given sufficient motivation, though, it could be done.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/24 @ 1:51 pm #
t’s quite possible to run your own domain.
Domain name service, that should say.
Comment by Jim in KC on 10/24 @ 3:49 pm #
GoDaddy has never let mine get hijacked like that. But then, I’m not an influential conservative blogger, either, so there’s not much incentive there.
I just like GoDaddy because I used to buy Parson’s Technologies’ tax software back in the day. And Bob Parsons is a Marine.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/24 @ 5:25 pm #
#9 Thomas D:
Then you would want to find an old A-26(B-26) Invader. A true pilot’s aircraft.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 10/24 @ 5:28 pm #
Yep, GoDaddy is by far the least sleazy registrar (although not completely non-sleazy — their upselling tactics are a little shady).
Didn’t know that was the same Parsons, or that he’d been a Marine. Interesting!