This IT pilot fish has his own personal domain name, and has his email system set up so that no message is bounced — if it’s not addressed to a legitimate in-box, it’s routed to a special mailbox that gets reviewed frequently.

“We started getting email addressed to ‘Barney’ at ‘Curbside Burner Services,’ located somewhere in New England,” says fish. “With a few quick searches, I found the business in several online directories with that user name but using our domain name. They didn’t have their own website that I could find.

“OK, no big deal — someone wanted to look bigger than they were, picked a reasonable domain name, and then either never registered it or found out we already had it. This was a small business that likely didn’t have robust IT staffing — just a family member or tech-savvy friend.”

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