[article] Iowa social media influencer sentenced for role in holding man at gunpoint over web domain

[Ayden Férdeline]

https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/12/09/iowa-social-media-influencer-who-had-cedar-rapids-man-held-gunpoint-over-internet-domain-sentenced-f/4379981002/

This article highlights the danger of an open Whois and how concerns over protecting the privacy of registrants are not abstract ones.

Here, after a registrant refused to sell a domain name, a social media influencer and his cousin attempted to steal the domain name from the registrant at gun point.

The case file number is 18-CR-86-CJW if you want to look it up in PACER.

Ayden Férdeline
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