Hello, Friend.
I intensely dislike being the bearer of bad tidings, but it appears
there is very little you can do, in terms of either receiving a refund
or re-gaining access. I'm afraid you've been swindled - and here's
why it looks that way:
I looked for publiclynaked.com in the Google cache, and found it. All
images are showing as broken. At the bottom of the page I found:
"If you have any questions about the subscription, want to cancel
membership, any billing questions Your password does not work or You
have forgotten the password, then click here"
...with the link being for icomservice.org. Icomservice.org, while
listed as an active domain with Whois.SC, returns a 404 (File Not
Found) error. The contact information belongs to someone in Russia,
and cannot be verified as accurate:
Registrant Name:OOO Mostbusiness
Registrant Organization:OOO Mostbusiness
Registrant Street1:Stachek prospekt d.72
Registrant City:St.Petersburg
Registrant Postal Code:198188
Registrant Country:RU
Registrant Email:serge@takehost.com
< http://www.whois.sc/icomservice.org >
Another site mentioned on the page, in the copyright notice, gives
similar results: "Host not found".
Both publiclynaked.com and redteens.com list the same WHOIS contact information:
Harvey's Production Corporation
Stiv Kampos
Suite 309-101 Bryan Bldg., 4537 Casino Street
Palanan, Makati City, Metro Manila 1200
PH
Phone: 1 801 4061364
Fax..: 1 801 4061364
Email: hosting@pteens.com
< http://www.whois.sc/redteens.com >
< http://www.whois.sc/publiclynaked.com >
According to Whois.SC, the site's IP belongs to Jonson's Information
Designs Inc. Searching on that name, I located a page in Google's
cache, indicating that their site was located at zipmodel.com:
Google Cache - zipmodel.com
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:FXIY-TJJ8mkJ:www.zipmodel.com/licence.htm+Jonson%27s+Information+Designs+Inc&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
There is an ICQ number at the bottom of the page - 143865842. I added
it to my own ICQ list to see if the user was online. S/he wasn't, and
the profile name comes up as "DrugOFF", with no other information. It
appears to be inactive.
Checking Whois.SC for contact information reveals something interesting:
Harvey's Production Corporation
nic-hdl: HPC3-GANDI
address: Harvey's Production Corporation
address: #234-1755 Robson Street
address: V6G 3B7
address: Vancouver
address: British Columbia
address: Canada
phone: +1 8014061364
fax: +1 8014061364
e-mail: domens@hpro.org
< http://www.whois.sc/zipmodel.com >
The telephone number for all three domains is for a location in
Vancouver, Canada. I called the number, and got a disconnected
message.
There are two additional domains mentioned in the contact information
for these sites:
hpro.org
pteens.com
Look who hpro.org belongs to:
Registrant Name:Harvey's Productions Corporati
Registrant Organization:Harvey's Productions Corporati
Registrant Street1:Suite309-101Bryan Bldg,4537Cas
Registrant City:Palanan
Registrant State/Province:Makati
Registrant Postal Code:City
Registrant Country:PH
Registrant Email:hosting@HPRO.ORG
< http://www.whois.sc/hpro.org >
Although pteens.com is registered to a fella in Riga, Latvia, we find
a very familiar address for the Admin contact:
Stiv, Kampos (15695096I) hosting@hpro.org
Suite309-101 Bryan Bldg 4537Casino Street
Palanan, Makati City, Metro Manila 1200
PH
+1-877-8757612 fax: +1-801-4061364
< http://www.whois.sc/pteens.com >
I called the 877 number listed. The man who answered refused to
answer any questions, even when asked repeatedly if any of these sites
had gone out of business or if they were merely down for maintenance.
When I mentioned that I was trying to find out what happened to
publiclynaked.com on behalf of one of the site's customers, he hung
up.
I'm sorry, but it seems Harvey's has closed up shop, and taken your money along.
--Missy
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