Your website names "hijacked" on Twitter and YouTube?

[Future]

I was surprised to find today, one of our clients popular website was hijacked by some age old spammer on twitter, youtube and few more sites.

He demanded 0000 US$ (4 figure) if our client requires those names.
Spammer has just overtaken those names and demands money, although our client is least concerned about this.

LoL, anyone else faced this kind of lamers ?
It sounds like a very good business here, but I am sure, majority of sites least or does not cares about same at all.

[piatkow]

To clarify I guess you mean that your client is www.example.com and these guys are registering "example" as a name with various other service providers. First check those service providers' ToS, a simple complaint might get them off line.

[benevolent001]

twitter has got policy which doesnt allow anyone to register popular names. You can complain if you feel your client is exact owner of the account in Twitter.

[maximillianos]

Haven't seen this one yet... but figured it was coming. We registered our name in Twitter and FB just to be safe... since it is free.

[Future]

Hello piatkow,
You are right, for sites like twitter.com or youtube.com someone has registered everything like twitter.com/ example or youtube.com / example
Our clients domain is example.com

I will suggest client, to report officially to above sites and report back again, how soon they get back to this kind of notifications.

[StoutFiles]

When you report the names they stole, also report their 4 figure ransom to prove they just did this to hold you up for extortion.