Fathi Said Before IX Web Hosting

IX Customers are complaining about “Retard Support”, sites are constantly down, database’s are slow to not moving, and the fact that IX Web Hosting makes promises to lure customers, and once they have signed up, the promises vanish.. And yes, I can confirm this from personal experience’s with IX.

So, what was   the big fish Fathi Said doing before IX Web Hosting?.. 

In 2003 more than 60,000 people were duped by a hosting company called ” Feature Price ” owned by… our very own Fathi Said  and  Travis Johnson.  They were based in Ft. Meyers, Florida.

Feature Price was known to be vastly profitable in 2002, reportedly racking in $1.6 million in profits. At its peak, the company had 60,000 customers serviced by 23 employees and several co-founders, of which Johnson was one and Fathi Said, an Austrian citizen, the other. Feature Price is said to have been adding about 3,000 customers per month, with churn averaging four per cent. Technical support, outsourced to a company in India, was reported to be average. 
The business started disintegrating in December 2002 when Said and Johnson had a falling out, sources say. Said left the company, reportedly returning to Austria.

Soon after, more than 60,000 customers recieved a message that they had 2 weeks to move their sites to another host..  these customers lost everything!!..

At the same periode that ” Feature Price” closed their doors on 60,000 paying customers, these same customers started recieving the following Email from Fathi Said 

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I am emailing you in regards to your domain name deprenda.com which is or was hosted by FeaturePrice.Com. Please note that if you are satisfied with the service you currently receive from Feature Price, you should ignore this email.

For more information on how you can RETAIN three months of your pre-paid hosting term with FeaturePrice but continue hosting at a more reliable service, please read on.

First off, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Fathi Said and I am the founder and former CEO of FeaturePrice.Com. I departed Feature Price involuntarily in December 2002 when my former partner Travis Johnson with the help of his lawyer effectively stole my company.

Since then my former partner has implemented new service policies which have negatively affected the performance of the company. At the present time, the financial situation of Feature Price and its parent company Hosting-Network, Inc. is highly critical.

If you would like to read more about Feature Price, please access this website:

ht*p://w*w.ixwebhosting.com/fp/fpinformation/

 

This email serves two purposes:

 

First and foremost you are now informed about the critical situation of your (former) hosting company and you can take corrective actions when your Feature Price will expire (without notice), so that your livelihood or at least your website will not be affected.

The second purpose of this email is to inform you of a new hosting company that I have launched:
IX Web Hosting at h*tp://w*w.ixwebhosting.com/fp/

As a special offer to Feature Price customers, IX Web Hosting is offering the SAME hosting plans that you were subscribed with at Feature Price and will provide compensation of 3 months of free hosting for your hosting term, but with more features, higher configurability and better billing terms (you can pay quarterly, semi-annual, or for discounts: annual or for 2-years).

We will CREDIT any account you open with IX Web Hosting with THREE (3) additional months of free web hosting service as a special gesture towards (former) Feature Price customers. Example: You sign-up for a “FP Mini Plan” or for a “FP Premium Plan” with IX Web Hosting. Once you have signed up, you can request a credit to be applied to your account. Within 48 hours, we will credit the value of the three free months against your balance with IX Web Hosting. Please note: This special offer is only available if you have or had an account with Feature Price. You must be a customer of IX Web Hosting to be eligible for this free service. You can receive one such credit for each account you have or had with Feature Price.
Once you have chosen one of our plans and signed up, you can request the credit to your account here:

ht*p://w*w.ixwebhosting.com/fp/fpcredit/

Click below to learn more about our plans:

ht*p://w*w.ixwebhosting.com/fp/vhost/

If you decide to host with IX Web Hosting or any other hosting company for that matter it is absolutely your choice. It is your choice as well to stay with Feature Price in case you are satisfied with the service you currently receive.
In either case, please take my email seriously you will do yourself a favor.

If you are interested in subscribing to a Feature Price Transfer Plan (FP Mini Plan, FP Budget Plan, FP Premium Plan, FP Platinum Plan) from IX Web Hosting and have the remainder of your hosting term credited to your account balance, then please go here:

h*tp://ww*.ixwebhosting.com/fp/fpplans/

If you have questions or need further information, you can contact us via the following methods:

Submit your question via our online form:

ht*p://w*w.ixwebhosting.com/fp/contactus/

Alternatively, you can also seek assistance in our 24 / 7 Live Chat:

h**p://w*w.ixwebhosting.com/fp/livechat/
The team at IX Web Hosting has created a guide on how you can change your hosting provider to any other hosting company (and what you can do in case Feature Price is holding your domain registration hostage). To retrieve this guide, please submit a request at our contact us form on our website and we will email the guide to you within 24 hours of you submitting your request.
I hope that you will be able to move on with your online venture despite the experience you have had with Feature Price and I wish you all the success you can have for yourself and for your websites future.
Thank you for reading this notice.

Yours sincerely,

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Fathi Said, CEO

w*w.ixwebhosting.com

Ecommerce Corporation

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Interesting isn’t it,  someone can rip off 60,000  paying customers, and within weeks start a new but exactly the same scheme

Now take a look at some customer reviews from back then… They look exactly like IX web reviews today.

http://www.webhostingreviews.com/feature.shtml

Fathi Said, IX Web Hosting and Terrorism

Islamist Site Containing Threats Against World Leaders Re-Activated

Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D.

A statement distributed by the Global Islamic Media Front and located on an radical Islamic American hosted Internet site, contains a death threat against a number of world leaders. The site was initially suspended and since reactivated. The forum on the reactivated site is now locked, so it is impossible to tell whether the death threat is still housed on the site, but there is no reason to suppose otherwise. Ironically, the data center housing the Al Firdaws site is located 17 miles from Fort Campell, KY, home of the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division (www.campbell.army.mil/newinternet/main.asp).

The statement (at www.alfirdaws.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&t=9116) threatened (s), according to the Society for Internet Research (www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/005294.html), Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush.

Contacted by e-mail, the Internet Haganah’s Aaron Weisburd said the posting promised kidnaping to be followed by decapitation. Weisburd said according to the statement the plan is in place, including the proposed location for Berlusconi’s slaughter.

The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) is known as the voice of al Qaeda on the Internet.

ISP APOLOGIZES FOR TAKING AL QAIDA LINKED SITE DOWN

Last Sat. I called the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and alerted an employee to the Al Firdaws site content. He thanked me and said a company official would investigate. Within a couple of hours, the site was off line.

However, a couple of days later the Al Firdaws site was reactivated. Clearly identifying myself as an investigative writer, I called IX Webhosting (also apparently doing business as Hosting-network Gmbh and www.ecommerce.com) on Tuesday, to see if the company had reactivated the site or if its operators had switched to another service provider.

An employee who answered the telephone said that her company was indeed hosting the site. Then apparently thinking I was the Al Firdaws site owner, she launched into a profuse apology for the site being taken down, as there had not been, she said, any violation of the company’s terms of service.

I then reiterated to this individual that I was an investigative writer, not the Al Firdaws site owner, and that the site contained a significant threat against world leaders. Asked who made the decision to reactivate the site, the IX employee said it was a member of the company’s management. I asked to speak to a manager. The individual took my telephone number and name, and said I would get a call back.

Informed that I would be reporting the situation to the FBI, the IX employee said that the FBI could communicate with the company by the U.S. Postal Service if they wanted the site taken down.

I also told the IX employee that I would make public my conversation with her. Hearing this, she said I could not do that as to do so would be violating her constitutional rights.

It is clear that the content of the Al Firdaws forum violated (s) IX’s terms of service (www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/home.dspPage/page/info.dspTOS). A portion of the company’s terms of service reads, “If inappropriate activity is detected, all accounts of the subscriber in question will be deactivated until our investigation is complete. Prior notification to the subscriber is not assured. In extreme cases, law enforcement will be contacted regarding the activity.”

AN AUSTRIAN CONNECTION

IX Webhosting, Hosting-network Gmbh and www.ecommerce.com all list their location as being at 247 Mitch Lane in Hopkinsville, KY. A Fathi Said, apparently based in Austria, is listed as being an administrator for Hosting-network Gmbh and www.ecommerce.com.

While I did not attempt to contact Said, here is a portion of a discussion (www.hostingdiscussion.com/news-and-pr/768-featureprice-com-closing.html) about some of Said’s reported business activities.

“Ecommerce.com is under control by Fathi Said (stolen), SiteandSites and a host of other domain names are owned exclusively by Fathi Said. Stay away from any site or business that has Austrian Ownership or Fathi Said or any other affiliation with Fathi Said. The problem with this is that Fathi will set up anywhere at anytime; you may or may not know who is actually behind that company. Fathi will use other names, and etc to fool you, be warned and be careful. Fathi while in office ran several businesses ‘on the side,’ and sold services that looked like the respective names but were indeed Feature Price (FP) services, no one at FP approved this but Fathi. Fathi also registered Dotregister domains for the clients and did not title them in the right names or addresses, but with 100% owned by featureprice client, these domains were held hostage, with numerous other domains like Featureprice.com unless the officers of FP were to give him over a half million dollars, the officers called the FBI for Extortion.”

More information about Feature Price is available at www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/fea050903.cfm and http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/07/07/where_did_the_featureprice_customers_go.html

THE DEATH THREAT AND RAKAN BEN WILLYAMZ

According to the Society for Internet Research (SOFIR) the statement was published on the al-Firdaws forum by “ialam al-islami,” who has in the past been a prolific contributor to GIMF forums and sites.

The ominous statement is attributed to “Rakan ben Willyamz,” an apparently collective name for native European converts to Islam roaming the continent, preparing to strike.

While there have been questions about the credibility of the statement, including the poor quality of the Arabic, as opposed to the first statement from the imaginary Rakan ben Willyamz (www.sofir.org/sarchives/005248.php), SOFIR said the threat shouldn’t be dismissed.

“Arguments in support of the statement (if not the threat) being credible, include the fact that it was distributed by the Global Islamic Media Front. That this ‘Rakan’ is a different and less-literate individual doesn’t necessarily make the statement non-credible. Since when are terrorists great examples of human intelligence? Certainly there is no disputing that the countries in question are all in al-Qaida’s sights … Increasingly the global jihad is waged by ignorant thugs, and their statements are likely to reflect that.”

The ben Willyamz name came to light earlier this year. The Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper (AAWSAT) reported (http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=2577) in Aug. that ben Willyamz (or bin Williams), was being touted as someone who would “wreck havoc worldwide.”

Al Qaeda’s strategy “will depend on surprise such as when near simultaneous attacks were carried out in Morocco and Turkey. Al Qaeda’s aim was to target the border between Europe and the Muslim world, east and west, so let this serve as a lesson to the entire west; we have arrived at your borders and no one will be able to stop us,” AAWSAT reported that GIMF said on the Internet.

AAWSAT also reported that the British tabloid the Sun indicated al Qaeda was recruiting English men, and referred to six English-language web sites affiliated with al Qaeda that had published material encouraging Europeans to sign up for military training.

Earlier this year, AAWSAT reported al Qaeda warned on the al Firdaws forum, “Do not rejoice, Blair, as you will not be able to follow or halt the movements or stop al Qaeda’s new soldiers Rakan bin Williams … Al Qaeda’s new soldiers were born in Europe of European and Christian parents. They studied in your schools. They prayed in your churches, and attended Sunday mass. They drank alcohol, ate pork and oppressed Muslims, but al Qaeda has embraced them, so they have converted to Islam in secret and absorbed the philosophy of al Qaeda and swore to take up arms after their brothers. They are currently roaming the streets of Europe and the United States, planning and observing in preparation for upcoming attacks.”

The Al Firdaws site is registered to Marwan Alansary of the Al Firdaws Company in Amman, Jordan.

The original article can be seen here