Quote from: Woodie on Today at 08:31:00 PM

From the stance that namecheap has taken makes me think they aren't the ~~people~~ company calling the shots.... perhaps there is a big player (silent partner perhaps) controlling this show and namecheap is the puppet or middleman in this whole front. Are the saying they have no T&C's to protect their business from bad actor's? And why should something within their reach go to local authorities to be resolved 😔🤯

It would be interesting to dig out what the internet has on such issues and how they were resolved, because eXch certainly can't be the first to be denied justice.

The problem, as I mentioned, is the way the scheme is set up.

In these cases, the domain and the website itself have no problems directly related to eXch. This was the same as someone creating a website imitating TalkImg.whatever and phishing with it. And then advertise here on the forum. I can't go to the domain provider and say I want to shut down bitcointalk.com because it shares phishing links.

I am using an extreme example to explain why the approach has to be different in these cases. What needs to be done is to take down the phishing domains that these sites are pointing to. But, we can say that they will continue to point to other fake domains. Yes it is true. But it is also true that it is these copy domains of the real eXch that are phishing, and not the sites that provide the links.

In these two cases the problem is not in the domain (mainly from the domain registrar's point of view), but in the content of the website. Since the content of the website is a fraud, it must be the hosting company or the authorities directly who take down the website. Just like search engines blocking these sites.

We have to look at what the domain registrar does when it blocks a domain. Typically, once a domain is flagged as being used for phishing, it can never be purchased/used again. Or when you are classified as imitating a brand, you are blocked until that brand wants to buy you. And that's what's creating the difficulty in blocking. These two domains are not doing these two things directly. So, the domain registrar company, blocking the domain is unitizing a domain that theoretically is not involved in any scheme.

I want to make it clear, I am not defending these domains, nor Namecheap's position. Only, after a more careful analysis of the situation of these two domains, I think that this approach will not be efficient, unfortunately. Undecided