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MacSlash Domain Stolen
MacSlash's Robert Daeley writes in to tell us that the domain name for MacSlash, the Mac news site, is incorrectly pointing to a generic "Dotster" page, either by accident or by malicious domain theft or squatting. They have registered macslash.net and hope to be back up again soon, and have as yet been unable to get word from "Dotster" regarding how this all happened.
I'm sure they would enjoy harvesting your email for spam purposes. This dotster is run by spammers and nothing more. Who else replaces a legitamite site with a page full of ads?
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
It appears that the thieves have shown themselves. If you type in "http://macslash.com," you hit a series of forwarding pages that bounce you as follows:
(And, as far as I can tell, that's it. Lynx.trace logs are not easy to read!)
In the end, you are redirected to an outfit called Creative Computers, which appears to run websites called MacMall and PCMall. The WHOIS entry makes reference to a technical/administrative contact named Simon Abuyounes, whose direct line is (310) 225-2800, ext. 5651. His fax is (310) 630-3462.
They are located at 2555 West 190th Street in Torrance, California (90504). You can reach them at (310) 354-5600, but why not use one of their toll-free numbers?
Their sales number is (800) 222-2808; their government sales number is (800) 323-2704; their education sales number is (800) 328-2793; and their technical support numbers are (800) 760-0300 and (800) 727-7579. Only the first number is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week; the others have certain times they're open. For international customers, the line to call evidently is (01) 310-225-2600.
E-mail address include macmallsales@macmall.com, customerservice@macmall.com, mactech@macmall.com, and webmaster@macmall.com. Other valid e-mail addresses from their feedback form include sales@macmall.com, maccorpsales@macmall.com, and mmtech@macmall.com.