P2P.com is a website that started in 1997, before the term P2P has become known as the peer-to-peer (file sharing type popularized by Napster). Back in 1997 it was the site Port printing online printing company. Sometimes, to July 12, 2005, the area has undergone a conversion. It was either bought in Port printing, or registration has failed, but someone with an eye toward the potential value of the purchased area. Suddenly more home port to print, it became what is known in the business as either a domain placeholder or a squatter area, an area that is just waiting to be bought. Only, it seems it was not purchased. It was stolen.
Daniel Gonclaves have hacked on behalf of the domain holder and the property is transferred. According to an AP report, which took place in May 2006. In September, LA Clippers star Mark Madsen bought for $ 100,000 on eBay; which is about when the site got another makeover. On 16 December the same year, the site took on its current appearance (you can see the site here, but be warned that it will show a pop-up window if you try to go out or go to another site). To recall, it went from printing business, the domain squatter, hacker NBA star in ten years. Not only the site pass through four owners, the site name is in two definitions in its lifetime. He also spent a legitimate business to a spam site designed for net surfers unconscious in a fake web directory and send them on monetized links (which seems to have been done under the ownership of Madsen).
And yes, you can add domain names to the list of purchases dicey you can do at the auction house eBay online. In fact, it can be one of the things you can buy dicier. After all, the fields are completely virtual products. At the moment, eBay is stocked full of Michael Jackson-related fields.
It seems that this is the first time someone has been arrested for stealing a field (although the actual costs are: "theft by unlawful taking or deception, identity theft ., and the theft of the computer ") the main lessons are here: always make sure to renew your domain each year (or the set up for auto-renewal) and not buying domains outside of . eBay Naturally Madsen p2p.com probably thought was a very good buy, even if it paid more than $ 100k and never did much with it except spam put there (leading us to a third lesson: stars NBA, even in a horrible team like lA Clippers, make too much money).
You can record and host brand spanking new areas at any one of the web hosts that we examined, without worrying about buying stolen goods.