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Local news scrapes barrel with Whois lookup

Kevin Murphy, September 2, 2010, 12:02:59 (UTC), Domain Registrars

“Local man and 300,000 others killed in earthquake”.
You’ve seen the headlines. Local news operations will go to crazy lengths in order to put a local spin on international news.
This angle is new to me. The Province, a newspaper in British Columbia, Canada, yesterday managed to localize a hostage situation over 2,300 miles away in Maryland entirely because the gunman used a BC-based domain registrar.

The gunman identified as the suspect in an unfolding hostage situation at the Discovery Channel offices in Silver Spring, Maryland, uses a Burnaby-based company to host his website.
The suspect, identified in media reports as James Jay Lee, has a website named savetheplanetprotest.com. A Whois.com search shows the website is registered to a man by the same name and lists a Burnaby P.O. box as is [sic] address.

The registrar in question is DotEasy.com. It offers Whois privacy services at said PO Box. Unsurprisingly, the company had no comment.
The original The Province headline was “Gunman holding hostages at US Discovery Channel has tenative [sic] BC links”.
Links? A nutter registered a domain name. If all reporters followed this logic, the Scottsdale Times would be the busiest newspaper on the planet.

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Comments (2)

  1. Kevin Murphy says:

    Cheers. I expect it will come to nothing. As far as I can tell there aren’t any violent threats on that site.
    As a matter of fact, I think the nutter had some good points to make 😉

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