here's what's happened to me over the last 24 hours or so.
I'm no programer. I'm a marketer.
One of my gallery urls (easy-dater.com - don't load this url- full of trogran installs now) somehow got the resister changed. It was with dotster. I THOUGHT it was locked down - I got no email conformation on the transfer from dotster at all - the url just suddenly dissapeared to install hell. Ok shit happens, I can deal with that.
The Hijacker was using amateurpages and tripleXcash, Now PLEASE don't blain these people at all, I'm not panicing about this part, icqs have been sent to these companies to have the account shut down, and as these are good honest companies I'm sure they were not aware of this at all and would not support a hijacker in any way shape form or fashion. I could make a phone call to get that done immediatly but I just sent them icqs cause as long as that's dealt with in the next few days that's cool as this part isn't a panic situation. No worries there.
I tried to contact dotster, my register - all phone numbers and teck support is out till monday. 24 hours of hell so far......UGGGGGG
I tried to contact the new registar - in india - they say they can't do anything till monday. Same agrivation
In the mean time i loose MILLIONS of hits a day and tens of thousands of dollars in pre-paid ads and pre-purchased bandwidth, not to mention all my archive placements on the galleries is lost forever - 2 years worth of submitting gone - that was a great steady revenue source to say the least that cannot be replaced.
To put it lightly this hurt me BADLY. No i'm not bankrupt, I have many ventures, but this one was basically whipped out and I can't even get ahold of either registar to do anything about it - i have to sit here till monday loosing everything i built up to this THEIF. Life goes on.
So here's what REALLY pissing me off though. I find the web host the hijacker used and is sending all my traffic though. I tell them about the hijack and I know - to them it's "he said she said" but here's the thing, I told them a lawsuit will occur and i know that up to this point they really didn't know anything about this, but now that they do know and the hijacker has 5 auto installs (nasty ones too) and FALSE WHO IS info (obviously false too) on the urls so please take down the urls. That is immediatly undisputable and reason to suspend an account and take a page down. I get a bit of a run around and then finally get an email from them that says
"I have contacted the server administrator and asked him to remove the domain for the time being until the situation is resolved.
Hopefully he will be able to take care of this shortly, but I was unable to reach him by phone. I will let you know when we hear back from him."
ok - this ADMITS they agree the site needs to come down, but WHAT THE FUCK? They have 24/7 teck support - HOW FUCKING SIMPLE IS IT TO PULL THE GOD DAMN PLUG on this site? It's got false who is and over 5 nasty autoinstalls on it - a no brainer to cancel this account. It's still up - it's been several hours now since I got that email. Needless to say I'm MORE than pissed.
the hosting company is eviservers
http://www.ev1.net/english/contact/index.asp
Does anyone here know HOW to get this site down? the longer it stays active the more damage it does to me. I'm open to ANY ideas at this point as my fustration level is beyond redline now.