I was looking for flights from Tauranga to Dunedin yesterday, I searched for “Tauranga Airport” and came across www.TaurangaAirport.co.nz.
It is a hideous 1 page website that talked about car rental. Not what I was expecting at all!
I was suspicious so dug a little deeper using a “whois lookup” to find out who the owner was.
Sure enough, it’s not owned by the Tauranga Airport, but by a guy called Dave Burghardt:
REGISTRANT
Name : dave burghardt
Address : PO Box 2397
City : Tauranga
Post code : 3015
Country : NZ (NEW ZEALAND)
Phone : +64 7 5784210
E-mail : burghardt@xtra.co.nz
(If you are ever curious about who owns a domain name, use a whois lookup such as: www.dnc.org.nz) Continue reading “Meet Your Local Cybersquatter: Dave Burghardt Who Owns TaurangaAirport.co.nz and Tauranga-Airport.co.nz”