Guy gets 14 years for trying to steal a domain with a gun
An American man has received a sentence of 14 years in prison after being found guilty of a plot to steal a domain name at gunpoint.
Rossi Lorathio Adams II received the sentence on Monday, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Iowa, having been found guilty of “one count of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by force, threats, and violence”.
Adams, who went by the screen name Polo, attempted to obtain the domain doitforstate.com from its registrant to support a popular social media channel he managed.
When the registrant refused multiple times, Adams drove his cousin — armed with a gun and written instructions how to push the domain into Adams’ GoDaddy account — to the registrant’s house.
A fight broke out, described vividly by the US Attorney, during which both the registrant and the gunman got shot.
Both survived, and the gunman got 20 years behind bars for his role in the attack.
If there’s a moral about domaining here, I invite the reader to discover it on their own.
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