HairyChick

That in itself deserves a separate thread. You forget to renew, they grab it for themselves. You can't use other sponsors on that site. They control your ads and links.

Just doesn't seem Kosher.

As for the scammer, he's not scamming but is just looking to hurt you. He has and will make money doing it. Hiring a hacker sounds good but legally you could lose everything

Trademarks are wise. I did it and got money when the moron used my domain name dot org. He lost his sites, money and I didn't gloat, just said it was the price of dishonest business practices. He had a lot of sites like that including stolen content.

Years ago I used a service that notified me when someone used my images without permission. People don't change image names sometimes. I forget the name but it was about $100/year which aid for itself from bills I sent. Hosts and ISPs were happy to dump dishonest customers back then

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