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I've had a similar experience. I ran into a scam that was masquerading as a popular Canadian clothing store (Roots) where everything was 50% off. I reported the domain to Namecheap and they said they're not responsible for the content since its hosted elsewhere. I pointed out that the domain itself was also trying to pass as legitimate and they told me unless I was the trademark owner they couldn't do anything. I also e-mailed the hosting provider but never heard back.

Fortunately I got ahold of Roots via Twitter and the scam seems to have been shut down.




Did you expect the domain company to take down the domain based on a copyright issue reported by an entity where they are not the copyright holder?

Think of all of the false take down requests registers would receive.




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