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Man tries to steal domain name at gunpoint, gets 14 years in prison instead

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Man tries to steal domain name at gunpoint, gets 14 years in prison instead

How much is a domain name worth? For one lunatic, apparently enough to try to steal one at gunpoint. Rossi Lorathio Adams II was just sentenced to 14 years in prison for trying to force a man to transfer him the doitforstate.com domain. Adams, a 27 year-old from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ran a small social media empire dubbed ‘State Snaps.’ It spanned millions of followers across Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter and depicted “images and videos of young adults engaged in crude behavior, drunkenness, and nudity,” according to a press release from the US Department of Justice. Adams was a student…

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