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This is not blackmail. Blackmail is when the villain demands money to refrain from releasing injurious or compromising injurious information. This is better de
by jws 18y ago
This is not blackmail. Blackmail is when the villain demands money to refrain from releasing injurious or compromising injurious information.
This is better described as stealing and ransoming the domain name. If it becomes popular, then perhaps we can coin the term "namenapping".
But it isn't blackmail. (Well… arguably the revelation that they use GoDaddy as their registrar is pretty embarassing, but that was public information already.)
- jamesbritt 18y ago"This is not blackmail. " Nor are the people involved hackers, "Criminals" would be correct.