Domain Theft in Portland

In the fall of 2008, a Portland Oregon small business owner found a local developer, and told him that she’d like to have her website redone, and she wanted some search visibility.

Her current site was old, not showing in the results, and she’d lost track of the original web designer.

So, after a few emails, phone calls and meetings, she signed a contract for $1500 down and about 6k over 6 months, after which she assumed she would have a new optimized website, they would part ways. What she got though, was something completely different.

(The fact that the ...

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