How I Lent Scammers a Domain

It began when my domain registrar contacted me. A domain I bought years ago and never really used, they informed me, was currently being used for phishing, which is against my registrar's terms of service. Hmm. I’m not a black hat, so what was going on? Logging in to my registrar (NameCheap) I was able to see that my domain's DNS was pointing at DreamHost, a shared web host I use for some…