Whois

epitome

Can anyone find out who registered the website http://www.shamballabraceletsuk.net I believe they have a copyright infringement and are misleading the consumer.

I tried and failed to find the WHOIS for this website
thanks.

WhiteChristmas

What murky company you keep, epitome!

That particular website is as dodgy as b*ggery; no phone no or postal address, no names or anything else - I certainly wouldn't do business with them. You could ask them directly using their web contact page, I suppose?

The various other domains (.com, .org, .co.uk, etc) have varying degrees of privacy applied and seem to be owned by a variety of companies and private individuals both in the UK and China.

Given the different common spellings of Shamballa/Shambala/Shambhala etc, it's not even a particularly "attractive" domain name.

SnowTiger

epitome wrote: »

Can anyone find out who registered the website http://www.shamballabraceletsuk.net I believe they have a copyright infringement and are misleading the consumer.

I tried and failed to find the WHOIS for this website
thanks.

http://who.is/ is good for this sort of thing.

Details look fake to me, but you never know.

fiddiwebb

Try here......

http://www.domaintools.com/

Okay above link works only if there are not to many connections using it but registration details at also at bottom of this link here...

http://www.whoismind.com/whois/shamballabraceletsuk.net.html

If you google the registrars name or address a few interesting connected sites pop up.

Even better the email address associated with the registrar points to these domains (first 50).........

http://www.whoismind.com/email/pandora666@mail.com.html

Good luck.

pcombo

Does seem abit misleading saying its UK when the webhosting is actually in the US and the registrar info looks fake but again US registered.

paddyrg

I think you may be hosed - registration tracks back to China where the concept of design protection seems to be wafer thin. Registrant seems to be bizcn.com, cheap Chinese hosting. Try writing to them, there is a chance they'll kill the listing, but if it's profitable, you're playing whack-a-mole, much like every variant of the word 'ugg' is...
abuse@softlayer.com may get the site killed temporarily until they re-host it elsewhere?

fiddiwebb

paddyrg wrote: »

I think you may be hosed - registration tracks back to China where the concept of design protection seems to be wafer thin. Registrant seems to be bizcn.com, cheap Chinese hosting. Try writing to them, there is a chance they'll kill the listing, but if it's profitable, you're playing whack-a-mole, much like every variant of the word 'ugg' is...
[EMAIL="abuse@softlayer.com"]abuse@softlayer.com[/EMAIL] may get the site killed temporarily until they re-host it elsewhere?

Exactly, take for example one of the fake or at the very least misleading Abercrombie & Fitch domains associated with the above lot, Chinese copies imported into the UK.