ICM Registry – TheGrandIllusion.xxx?

As screenshotted before, they’re up to their same old games of hiding things. It seems their game is to see how quickly they can beat your readers to the punch. For example, let’s say your name is Amanda Hudson and you post a screenshot, showing proof that their lawyer did the unthinkable; squatted, well, immediately after reading your post, they run over to the Whois website and scramble to change the information. Latest case in point comes to us, compliments of Elliot Ness. What Mr. Ness isn’t aware of is that I actually captured a screenshot (a ‘before’, if you will) of what I had the feeling would lend credibility to my upcoming blog entry, once again, exposing ICM Registry for the liars that they are.

Here’s a copy-and-paste job of his post, along with a before-and-after screenshot, proving this information was indeed changed.

Wow, ICM changes the Whois information for Teaganpresley.xxx just hours after I post my comment to Michael Berkens’ Blog http://www.TheDomains.com but the time still shows that Monica Foster’s .XXX was changed before ICM registry’s example Teagan Presley of how generous they are to the adult performers, They continue to try to manipulate and control any information being put out to the public and when they are caught again and again with errors which are pointed out, they simply change the information to look all correct. I hope Manwin is being so diligent about watching everything that is being put out about ICM Registry and .XXX domains.

Nice try ICM Registry to make others look bad or wrong, good quick cover it all up but the truth always comes out and you can’t keep it all hidden for much longer!

If I had just an ounce of trust in me, where these companies (ICM Registry/Webpower Inc.) are concerned, I might have given them the benefit of the doubt, but I’ve seen what lies they are capable of. Lies and manipulation. Surprisingly, they are bold enough to change the information you see, right before your eyes, as though to say “well it isn’t there now, is it?”. They claim the member was not billed. Bullshit. This system doesn’t ever screw up like that sporadically or they would have been bankrupt a long time ago.  When someone gets caught with their hands in the cookie jar, do they ever admit to ill-intent? No. They try to cover it up, sugar-coat it, protect their own sorry rotten ass!

This is how Webpower solves problems. This is the member info, below that, an e-mail from iFriends/Webpower stating that the problem was fixed. Below that, a screenshot showing a change in that information, so that I can rest assured that they are looking out for my best interest. Look at Fanclub Cancel Date (near the bottom of the form) and compare with the 2nd form. Any programmers out there care to enlighten me on how this is even possible that an ‘automated system’ can screw up this badly? No surprise that they refused to give me a report of my revenues, like I asked right before I left over that financial dispute back in 2009.

 

This appears to be the same bold manner in which ICM also chooses to solve theirs. The one thing they didn’t anticipate with this (and numerous other examples I have saved from my days of being ripped off the 10 years I worked on their platform) was the fact that I have screenshots, page saves, copies and proof of everything in my dealings with these people. Similar behavior. Similar attitude towards adult industry performers, hell they even live and work stones throws away from each other, ICM and Webpower! Yet they continue to deny any connection. I’ve been waiting for the words “I never had internet relations with that company” to surface but sadly, they haven’t … yet.

 

Another great example of how they like to change things (bear with me here; I’m trying hard not to veer too far from the topic), is in a previous blog entry where I pointed out their lawyer Falco squatting and then how they changed the information. You can make things appear any way you want them to look, ICM/Webpower, but when the lights go on, the show’s over!

Fear (part 2)

Fear.
What prevents you from speaking out against people that have wronged you? Fear? Fear of being  criticized. Embarrassment? Made to feel like somehow it was your fault. Scrutinization? Having to defend yourself or dealing with the repercussions of speaking your mind, whether justified or not. Is this what lies at the root of people’s silence? Fear? In this day and age, after wars were fought for our freedom. Such a rich history behind our great nations, and we choose silence over the right to speak our mind?

 
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Silence.
The only thing silence ever solved for me was a headache. It’s no way to go through life. Unless, of course, you’re plagued with chronic headaches.

Why, when we, as a society know something is wrong, do we choose to look the other way, questioning not only our instincts but our own eyes and ears? Why, when we know we’re being taken advantage of, do we continue to accept it? Fear of ending up on the losing end of a lengthy court battle? Fear of being called “crazy”, “paranoid”? Fear of having wasted our precious time fighting something noone else cares enough to back us up on? 

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
- Mark Twain

Like hell fear is going to stop me from acting on what I feel is important. After all, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Screwed over. Royally butt-ended.

Why do we have to be the victim in order to have any fight in us? To have any desire for justice? To have the strength and agility to move forward on issues that otherwise we’d probably have ignored completely?

I will say it again … Fear could be the ace in the hole, allowing these companies to thrive while potentially getting away with major fraud. After all, who’s to stop them? Our worst enemy, Fear, just happens to be their best friend and greatest ally. The internet itself and the anonymity it provides is the perfect platform to manipulate and mold things exactly the way you want them to look. Some people look at things through a microscope though. They are harder to fool.

Last Night (another asshole instance)

Mr Perfect entered my room last night, with only one thing to say to me in guest chat:

mrperfect: your to fat and to old

It was the last thing typed in my chat. Glad I only noticed this after I had signed off. There are a number of things wrong with this, least of all the use of “your” and absence of an ”o” in the word “too” (twice, I might add, so this was obviously an error of the brain, not the keyboard). They seem to, for the most part, know how to spell simple three-letter words. So, the words “fat”, as well as “and”, plus “old” are their strong suits. Needless to say, it’s refreshing to know I’m not going head-to-head with someone who is my intellectual superior. In actuality, we all know by now who this is. Who stands to gain by seeing me offline? Having me out of the way? Quieted, perhaps?

They continue, oblivious to the fact that I am just not going to obey them or be brainwashed by them. Their games are not working and haven’t in the two straight years they have been harrassing me on Streamate (though their harrassment itself has been occurring way longer than that), so why do they think it will work now?

Signed, “fat” and “old” gal, signing off to go eat a big fat juicy steak dinner with mashed potatoes (drenched in old-fashioned salted butter)!

What’s Taking ICM Registry so Long to Finalize This “Performers Program”?

  I wanted my dot XXX long before they even announced a Performers Program. It was “reserved by ICM” when I went to check its status on Whois website. I hadn’t even inquired about it yet. Someone had reserved it prior to me. I asked about who and that’s when  they refused to tell me. They also refused to let me buy it, though I wanted to, I inquired about it, I even went through the steps to do so under their Sunrise A program but they blocked me. When I asked who tried to purchase it prior to me, they said “that information is confidential”. That’s why they couldn’t let me buy it under Sunrise A; they would have had to tell me who tried to buy it. So, they scrambled to create a Performers Program, a ‘special’ program which denies us access to the records that other customers of dot xxx are entitled to!  They just would not let me buy it! I own the dot com and have grandfathered it. Owned the dot com longer than iFriends/Webpower has owned the dot net of my name. What did ICM do? Rather than let me buy it, they just shoved me into this Performers Program (currently held in an ‘escrow’ account), which the details are still not ready. I’ve been waiting since october to hear something about this program. Nothing. Not a word. Still waiting. I’ve tweeted to them several times, and always the same response “soon”. This is really taking long. Are ICM Registry (and the lawyers they share with Webpower/iFriends) just too busy counting all their ‘chickens’ before they hatch? Perhaps they’re just counting their money, as we perfomers, who are “so important” to ICM Registry, count the days until they finally decide to let us in on the little secret that is their agreement and all the juicy terms and fancy lawyer wording, whose sole intention is to confuse, insult and baffle our minds to the point where we pass out, in a form resembling the mannequins that so cheaply portrayed us in their pathetic ads, trying to convince the world that porn was all moving to .XXX. Like hell it is! Hey ICM, lawyer up all you want, but you’re not dealing with a dummy here, as your ads suggest how low you really think of us performers. Take your cheap degrading, classless, corny, bubble-brained ads and shove them up your ass, where they belong.

 

Anyway, here’s a little humour, from one of the  little ‘mannequin’ people. You might like this, ICM! It should provoke you to want to respond, but please, leave D-Man out of this. He was rather rude and quite transparent. Wouldn’t want to embarrass yourselves further, would you? Let’s not go down that road again. ;)

 

Webpower/ICM Registry Hides Their Lawyer, Sheri Falco

In my previous blog entry, titled “Domains for Squat by ICM Registry/Webpower’s lawyers?”,   http://amanda36c.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/domains-for-squat-by-icm-registrywebpowers-lawyers/ I posted a screenshot which showed Sheri Falco as the registrant, at 2:42pm (est) and they made changes at 4:37pm (est). See the screenshots. It’s all there; even the dates and times of changes made.  Remember, Falco is the lawyer for Webpower (iFriends) and also for ICM Registry. The cam2cam.xxx she was shown as registrant under, shows the dot com belonging to FCI a competing site. Competitor buying competing sites’ dot XXX. ICM Registry’s very own lawyer registering dot XXX sites that compete with the one that she represents as legal counsel? And this is OK with everyone???

 

Here’s a screenshot of the changes that were made, days after I posted the aforementioned blog entry, pointing this out.

A peek back into the archives of the Whois servers will confirm the authenticity of my screenshots.

Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Webpower has chosen to manipulate the way things look, to their advantage. In fact, they did it to me when I worked on their platform, years back by changing how one of my fan club members’ renewals appeared after I complained I was not being paid for a membership fee.

This was uploaded on the 4th of march 2010. The info is much older. This was merely an example of how they cheat, lie, manipulate and steal.  

 http://www.ripoffreport.com/Owner_48cf4eb8-2d7b-4a6f-bfbb-fa22032a9a3e/Item_db82c33c-bc92-4496-81af-35ff3a8812da/Attachment.ashx

… taken from this page (my report against them I filed with Ripoffreport.com). Dates, info … is all there. That screenshot is on the very bottom of the page. http://www.ripoffreport.com/adult-web-site/1-800-ifriends-ifrie/1-800-ifriends-ifriends-webpo-c9a5f.htm

We know the lawyers are involved, connecting the two companies (ICM Registry, the dot XXX people, along with Webpower/iFriends). As if that isn’t biased enough, I challenge anyone to explain to me how is this not squatting! Why hide your lawyer now, Webpower/iFriends/ICM Registry?

Domains for squat by ICM Registry/Webpower's lawyers?

 The owner of cam2cam.com, (info taken from this page http://whois.domaintools.com/cam2cam.com ) is FCI, Flying Croc, Inc., which also owns Streamate.com.

 

But the owner of the dot xxx for this cam2cam site is the lawyer of ICM Registry, Sheri Falco (Info taken from this page  http://whois.domaintools.com/cam2cam.xxx ) who, as shown here, also represents Webpower, a competing site.

Seems the very owners of the dot xxx domain extension sellers are buying up everything in sight, in the name of crushing their competition. If that’s OK with the competition, all the power to them.

Oh, did I mention that Streamate (FCI) and iFriends (Webpower) are competing sites? So, the competitor bought the competing site’s dot xxx and put it in the company’s name but registrered it to the laywer’s name. So, the question is this; is iFriends/Webpower really behind ICM Registry or so tight in with them (through their lawyers) to get them to do things, buy things, manipulate things so that things happen … in their favor?

They want you to hurry and get your dot xxx before someone swipes it from right under you (ummm, could that someone be themselves?) !!! No need to worry about squatters people, ICM Registry have that all covered!

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say there’s a Wall Streeet Wizard of Oz behind this, pulling the puppet strings. Just go along with it, Lawley and you’ll be a very rich puppet!

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends

Over 424 complaints filed against them (and that’s just on this one site alone) for credit card fraud! I’m referring to the site that ICM Registry has chosen to promote them as their “first high profile .XXX site”! http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search/ifriends.aspx 

If those complaints are real (how can that many members all be wrong?), then this company is making hundreds of millions of dollars a year simply by billing members in small increments. According to several of those reports, a fee of $6.95 monthly.  That’s not much money, to each individual. Hardly noticeable in the grand scope of today’s economy and a mere blip on their credit card statement’s list of charges. Easily overlooked by the millions of Americans who use their cards frequently, especially in a recession. But tally it up.

The math is simple. $6.95/mo x 4 million members (an underestimate of the actual amount of customers whose credit card information they have on file). This company has been in business, collecting credit card info from its customers since january 14th, 1998. Easy to believe they’d have 8 million (at the least) credit cards on file.  It seemed crazy to me, while I was working there, that they kept using the word “free” in their wording, to gain signups to the site. If their intention all along was to  fraud people, an accusation popular amongst many of these customers, then I suppose a little white lie to kick-start this, can only help their cause. I always wondered why they were so bold in stating everything was free when it clearly wasn’t. If the intention was there to steal, then the objective can only be to gather credit card numbers. On their site, in 2009, they boasted having over 8 million members.

Imagine a company with 4 million credit cards on file. A nice, low number.

4,000,000 credit cards

charged $6.95/mo

= 27,800,000.00

x 12 months

= 333,600,000.00

Three hundred and thirty-three million dollars a year, banking on 4,000,000 people overlooking a simple charge of $6.95/monthly!

 This same company creates a WebpowerFX card. With this license, they have access to the credit card information system. This allows them access to customers’ billing, as well as updated credit card information. They can get new expiry dates of cards they had on file that have expired, billing addresses changes, etc.

Sounds familiar? A bank skimmed pennies from each customer. They got caught.  

Here’s s short story about a hacker who did it. Why did he get away with it? Read it. You’ll see.

The man was a hacker. He was a thief. He knew computers. He knew them inside out. He was like a pickpocket. He picked everyone’s pocket. He picked everyone’s bank account in America. Everyone with a bank account lost money. Millions of Americans have bank accounts. All of these Americans lost money. But they didn’t know it. Not a single victim noticed the theft. Not a single victim called the police. “We got lucky,” said a police detective. “He cheated on his fiancée. She called us. But we’re unlucky, too. We have no evidence. We only have her story. He might get away with his crime. He might get away with millions. He transferred all the money to another country. There’s no way we can trace the money. He is very smart. Why? He stole only one penny from every bank account in America. Who cares about a penny?”

ICM and iFriends/WebpowerInc/WP Associates, WPI (and whatever they happen to be calling themselves this week) and their lawyers,  are in such close proximity, they must be golfing together! After all, as I’ve pointed out many times, their lawyers are all cozily connected. Such a tiny area of Florida and there they are! Why won’t they admit they’re in bed together?

Thieves will always be thieves. It’s just a matter of time before they are caught. No matter how big they think they are, who their connections are and how many companies they can get to back them. They can’t go pushing people around, harrassing them and expect noone to step up and say “hey, fuck you”.

When Noone Calls “Bullshit”!

How can Mr. Lawley keep a straight face while making the claim that he has “no current or historic links to the adult industry in any form” as stated in this Wiki article,  http://icannwiki.com/index.php?title=Stuart_Lawley ?

I call “bullshit”!  

 Two of the attorneys representing Lawley’s cashcow, ICM Registry, sit on the IFFOR; Sheri L Falco, legal councel for ICM, as well as Andrew H Kayton, legal counsel for Webpower Inc./iFriends (a company whose roots were established in 1995 and the doors for their adult entertainment pioneer model, amateur sector, went live in 1998).  Poor Mister Lawley had no idea he was in bed with one of the pioneers of the industry, when he chose to promote (at Times Square with a billboard of their very own) this company! No links to the adult industry though. I suppose he can also plead innocent when it comes to not knowing about all the reports against this company they’ve chosen to give the first .XXX to! http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search/ifriends.aspx Imagine 4 million members (a fraction of the actual members they have on file from their sex site over the last 16 years), charged $6.95/monthly? That’s $27,800,000.00 a month! Annually, that’s 333,600,000.00!!!!!!!!!!  Three hundred and thirty-three million dollars off of the monthly billing of 4m credit cards. That’s serious buck. It helps people to overlook when the billing is in small increments and the billing name is periodically changed. Makes me think there’s a mastermind behind this. Sounds crazy? You think? Look at it. I’m just pointing out what I see.

Come on now! Just because ICM Registry happen to be lawyered up with the same dream team that somehow have managed to keep that Webpower Inc./iFriends company afloat, despite the 424 reports against them, doesn’t mean that ICM isn’t to be trusted. Just because those lawyers are on the board which makes the policies for ICM Registry and the XXX domains, doesn’t mean there will be any frauds/biases/untruths/ripoffs going on.  We can trust them. Just because Manwin (one of the largest, if not THE largest player in the industry) has decided to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against ICM, doesn’t make them guilty (after all, aren’t we innocent until proven guilty?). Part of the article reads:

“The suit filed in the Central District of California, alleges monopolistic conduct, price gouging, and anti-competitive and unfair practices. Specifically, the plaintiffs allege that defendant ICM manipulated and intimidated ICANN into entering into an agreement which resulted in a monopoly by: naming ICM as the sole registrar for the .XXX TLD; agreeing to a prohibition on the creation of any competing TLDs for the adult industries; and, granting ICM control of pricing without any oversight by ICANN. As a result, the plaintiffs argue that ICM now maintains a monopoly over the sole adult-oriented TLD.

The plaintiffs complaint also alleges that ICM has already engaged in monopolistic and anticompetitive acts by charging prices considerably higher than those charged in competitive markets for similar TLD services. In some instances, plaintiffs allege that ICM is charging ten times more for their .XXX registration services than comparable registration services relating to other TLDs”

Has this whole world gone to hell? Out to lunch? Is the radiation from cell phones killing our brain cells so much that we can’t think for ourselves enough to want to take a stand against companies like this whose sole mission is to profit off the complacency of the general public with their borderline-legal business tactics? As long as people in power continue to turn a blind eye to these things, companies will thrive off the support they are getting from the silence which allows them to get away with it.

Think about it!

Streamate Traffic

 

Streamate claims, in their FAQ:

“We provide all of the traffic, advertising and marketing for you. Just make sure your photo and description are set up the way you want them, and members will come to you! Remember to fill out all the details in your profile so that you will show up in searches made by our members.”

So, where is all the traffic? It looks to be directed at certain girls who are promoted on high-traffic sites (a simple search for internet stats, such as those seen on Alexa, shows Streamate has long been declining in traffic). I’m not so quick to believe that, looking around in certain rooms.

 Why is it that the only traffic I am seeing are those that have me on their favorites list?

 

Hard not to think that when I see models with anywhere between 40 and 200 members in their room, just mouse-clicks away from me in the listings.  Yet here I am, in the single digits. The other day, for example, I signed in and had a bunch of members. All stayed, chatted, had a jolly old time. A few private shows later and suddenly, when I got the guest room back, one member came in, then he’d leave (for whatever reason). 2 members entered, one left. Two more, both left. Always just one member in my room. It seemed that they were getting booted out. This is not normal behavior for a site that just minutes ago, was able to handle a bunch of members at once. Suddenly, everyone’s getting booted out. Perhaps I could sustain 200 members, too, if only they were  allowed to stay in!

In the two weeks around the Christmas holiday, traffic in my room was great. Traffic in other rooms were great. All of a sudden, the traffic decline that I’d seen just prior to this 2 week period, returned. Why, for 2 weeks, at the very worst time of year, do I see an increase in traffic to my room, and now, back to decline again?

What the hell is going on here?

 

Best buddies!

There’s nothing quite like a warm sunbeam on a cold winter’s day.

Preparing for the long 23-hour nap after tanning all afternoon.

FF >>> 23 hours later. No wonder they’re so hungry when they wake up. That’s one long nap!

Let the mischief begin! I later discovered 2 pistachio nut shells in my shoes.

R.I.P. (S – march 9, 2009) (C- february 2, 2010).

S is deaf (born that way). He has the most beautiful blue eyes. C was S’s ears. True buddies!

S lived to 15.

 C, a month short of his 18th birthday.