If you go to http://crabz.com , you will see my website. If you go to http://crabz.com. , (with the dot at the end) you will be directed to dotster.com. Who gave them permission to steal my visitors, and how are they doing this?

Its just a type of spyware if you will.. I get it all the time I type in the wrong url and the page that it defaults to changes weekly, sometimes M$ sometimes dotster it all depends who put it on my system last.. no big deal though you dont actually own crabz.com. you own crabz.com.....

When I added a dot to the end of one of my domains, it still worked.

Smear, may I ask.. who is your DNS Registrar? Dotster? If so, if it has been more than 6 weeks of account signup, you can transfer to another registrar (or perhaps other host if you need to). Please let me know if you need any help making a domain transfer.. I know 000domains.com is a great place to start. :)

The bottom line, this is infringement (regardless if it is legal or not). It's like me going around and putting banners on my clients' sites.. not fair by any means. Just my $.02

Originally posted by Smear
If you go to http://crabz.com , you will see my website. If you go to http://crabz.com. , (with the dot at the end) you will be directed to dotster.com. Who gave them permission to steal my visitors, and how are they doing this?

Are you using their domain parking/redirection service? Well, it happens not to recognize the site with the trailing dot, and gives you a generic Dotster page because it's confused.

You should report it to them as a bug. No one is stealing your domain. Just don't use it with the trailing dot in any URLs. Or if they don't fix the bug, move it to someone else's nameservers where the problem doesn't happen.

Kevin