Social Media Influencer Got 14 Years in Prison for Trying to Steal a Domain Name
Dec. 14, 2019Rossi Lorathio Adams II, a social media influencer, was sentenced to 14 years of prison earlier this week for breaking into a man’s home and ordering him to transfer a domain name.
One of the hashtags he prominently used on all these accounts to encourage youngsters to record such videos was#doitforstate, for which a domain name (doitforstate.com) wasn’t available. He registered his website on doit4state.com instead and started his hunt for the owner of doitforstate.com.
Hopkins threatened the domain owner at gunpoint and demanded him to follow the instructions on a note to transfer doitforstate.com domain to Adams’ account. The domain owner managed to escape from the gunpoint during which he got shot in the leg and ended up shooting Hopkins multiple times in the chest before calling the police. Luckily, both survived.
Hopkins was sentenced 20 years of imprisonmentlast year. Adams, however, got sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment earlier this week, as I mentioned earlier. He was also asked to pay $9,000 in restitution, a prosecution fee of $3,957.45, and $22,000 in attorney fees.
This incident depicts the after-effects of leaving a domain unprotected. If you run a website, I would recommend you to get domain privacy service to make your identity protected and to stay safe.
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