I am trying to pursue a cyber hijacker.  What's the best source of
user friendly and practical information?  Not ICAAN, for sure.

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Request for Question Clarification by sycophant-ga on 19 Mar 2004 15:49 PST

Hi sagafamina, 

It is going to depend very much on what information you have about the
person you are pursuing. You can get public information about who owns
a specific IP address, but that's probably not going to help you, as
it's very unlikely the person you are look for actually owns the block
of IP addresses they will come from, it will belong to an ISP or a
company.

If it belongs to an ISP, you will have to contact them to complain,
but normally for privacy reasons (generally legally enforced ones)
they will not disclose any information to you about the user in
question.

Can you provide some more information about exactly what you are
talking about in this case? What the individual did, how you know
about it, and what evidence and information you have to base your
search upon?

Regards,
Sycophant-ga

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Clarification of Question by sagafemina-ga on 20 Mar 2004 09:40 PST

Hi,

I own the domain, www.wrldlnx.com, as is easily documented on
whois@opensrs.com  I have a free website host which began notifying me
that I was overusing my allotted space. They suspended me based on
this use, despite my telling them that I had not used the space, and
could not tell using their administration software who was, or what
was being done with it. Subsequent to being suspended I can't even get
on to see what might be there. I just found that an Austrian is using
the url (Felix Jost) and my host is telling me I have to fix the
problem.  Tucows is the registrar, which the host went through to
reserve the domain for me.  Tucows FAQs say to go to the site Admin
contact (me) or the host. Host says I must go in and find the
offending files and go from there. I am ready to change hosts, of
course, if I can do so, but I am wondering if there is some official
way to name the Austrian who has managed tohijack the site, or if
perhaps my host is double dealing.  (www.Canaca.com).  I have emailed
the hijacker to cease and desist. No answer, of course.  ANy ideas
appreciated.

I know that's old, but, I just signed up with Canaca. That was a
problem with Ensim software's monitor of space and bandwidth. It was
not a problem on your fault. Indeed, there is no hacker, just a server
problem. As of the time of this writing, it has been fixed over a week
ago.