Stole it, fenced it
A man is charged with
stealing a prime piece of internet real estate and reselling it to a NBA
basketball player.
Daniel Goncalves, 25, of Union in northern New Jersey,
hacked into an online account belonging to one of the owners of the P2P.com
domain name. Coppers think he shifted ownership to himself and resold the
website address on eBay to basketballer Mark Madsen, a Los Angeles Clippers
forward who did not know the name was stolen.
Goncalves, who works for an
online research firm, was arrested on Thursday on felony charges of theft by
unlawful taking or deception, identity theft and computer theft. Julian
Castellanos, a state police spokesman, said each of the three counts carries
a maximum sentence of 10 years.
The State Police say that P2P.com is worth
$US200,000 because of its relation to peer-to-peer file sharing. A lot of
companies would love to have that domain name.