Harmful Actions.
Interesting.
I have a friend of 40 years that contacted me yesterday.
"Hey... my domain was hacked... can you un-hack it?
The critical point in this post is that the domain was his-actual-name.com'
He is 80 years old and totally forgot that he let his domain go.
He allowed the domain to lapse in 2017, or so. It was a very popular site.
In 2019 a "group" in Hong Kong acquired the domain name because of it's popularity. It is now a porn site.
Is there anything that can be done to fix it... (that is legal) ? Not really.
The real issue is that his name is the domain name and someone or some group is stealing the popularity of the domain to achieve their ends.
Now there should be "trademarks" and "copyrights" and "service-marks" to protect the domain. But there are not.
AND.. there is a LE cert on the domain.
This is totally unfortunate, and there should be a way to mitigate this kind of thing from happening.
He was not happy with my response. But the fact remains...
Trademarks and copyrights and service-marks are important. From the perspective of the Wayback Machine... It doesn't matter.... It is now a porn site. And it will be documented for prosperity
I wish it weren't the case but it is.
RIP