I sold my site a couple years ago to a fellow. Recently I've looked at his site and he or his webmaster uploaded an old index.php page with my photo, contact details and name so it still looks like I own the site. Yet, he's taking orders from the site with his payment processor and he's not fulfilling the transaction. So I'm getting complaint emails from his customers. What's even worse is that he still has my contact details listed when I do a whois lookup. I've already contacted his domain registar and they said they'll contact him to change the whois contact details. What I need to know is how do I find out where he's hosting the site so I can contact the webhost to shut him down. The DNS indicated in the whois lookup shows that he's using his own name servers. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
Report him to his payment processor - by taking payments and not giving his details to his customers he is committing fraud. I'm not sure about the US but in the UK I'd report him to Trading Standards and they would take serious action - is there a similar organisation that you can report him to ??
If you can give the URL here, I am sure many can dig this for you. (You can also PM me) If he is using his own name server, than he is either on VPS or Dedicated server. You can try searching by his IP, tracert, reverseDNS etc etc. If you are not sure how to do it, either disclose the domain name here or if thats a problem, let me know and I can try to help u out
If that is your real picture then no doubt he is just hypnostised by you.... but kinda naughty eh? Can't you just pick up the phone and tell him to stop assuming you have his location by now?
I've found his web hosting company. I'm waiting for them to reply to my e-mail. I'll contact Paypal as my next option.
Emails are not suitable for this kind of thing. They tend to get ignored. Needs to be a paper trail, and signiture of acknoledgement
Paypal should be your first choice here. It'll go way faster than emailing his hosting company, and he won't be able to make any money.
Tell them: http://wdprs.internic.net/ Although the fraud charges are much more serious, false whois records will still count against him.