It’s appalling to hear that VeriSign (aka Network Solutions | Internic) is STILL letting people steal domain names!
“…it appears that it is still possible to steal domains with the minimum of effort. We have been contacted by the owner of the valuable domain DVDmovies.com who was amazed, only last month, to find that his domain had been moved and registered with another company, without his knowledge.”
“That the registrar at fault was no less than VeriSign – owner of all .com and .net domains – makes it worse. The fact that the company was also recently chastised by the US Appeals Court and ordered to pay millions of dollars in compensation to the owner of Sex.com for wrongly transferring his domain makes it all the more incredible.”
Over the years I had the misfortune of having two separate domain names stolen due, IMHO, to the ineptness of VeriSign.
One domain I was never able to get back, mainly because I (and the company I worked for at the time), just gave up trying to work with VeriSign.
The other domain was transferred to another owner via a forged email. I was actually alerted to the theft-in-progress before the domain was transferred because the thief’s initial forgery attempts bounced back to me.
In fact, I contacted VeriSign (at the time Network Solutions) and told them there was a theft of my domain in progress. They assured me that they would put a hold on the domain.
The next day… Poof! My domain was gone! VeriSign approved the transfer anyway.
It then took me weeks to finally wrestle the domain back after hours of being on hold, numerous emails, letters and evil faxes back-and-fourth with VeriSign detailing the clear, plain-as-day, evidence that they even confirmed of the forged transfer.
Ugh! I could not believe how easy it was for a thief to steal a domain, it’s sad to hear that it’s still an open issue.
My company has been the owner of the domain iu.com since 1995. Last month we had noticed attempts to steal the domain, so we had set the ‘Do Not Transfer’ flag on the domain at Network Solutions. Sometime in the next day (a Sunday), someone (supposedly from Beijing, China) managed to change the password to the account that oversaw the domain account. From there they changed the Network Solutions password, changed all the account and DNS information, reset the ‘Do Not Transfer’ flag, and transferred the domain to OnlineNIC.com — all within an hour or two (so much for any safeguards at Network Solutions). We reported the theft to Network Solutions on Monday morning, however they claimed they could not do anything since they no longer had the domain. They marked the event as suspicious, and sent a report of the ‘fraud’ to OnlineNIC.com to assist with our attempts to regain control over the domain. A week latter the person responsible for the theft moved the domain to Enom.com.
I’ve managed to regain control over the account that originally oversaw the domain, and still hold the Domain Manager account for the iu.com domain at Network Solutions. We have found the information (contact, email, address, phone, fax) for the person who stole our domain to be fictitious and different in all three places (Network Solutions, OnlineNic, and Enom) it has traveled.
Currently, I pursueing legal action against Network Solutions, and filing the online fraud forms. It’s a battle which I’m sure will be somewhat expensive, but it needs to be fought.
Yah. I can’t stant Network Craptoutions. Bastards screwed me over more times than I can count. In fact, most of my calls to tech support were never logged, so I had a heap of trouble trying to clear up one billing mistake.
I transfered my domains to AZC after that. Those guys know what they’re doing, and I get a knowledgeable person on the phone within seconds of dialing! And the best part is they ACTUALLY HELP YOU OUT! Screw waiting on hold for crap service. I’m never going back to NSI.
moocow: you work for AZC! Stop spamming this blog with your crappy company
I had my domain snatched by some pornographic arses.
They used my .net to sell their incest porn of all things.
Any idea how I can get it back???
I had to move to .tv
if you google my name incest porn comes up before my music does… aweful
This is rediculous I had no idea someone could do such a thing. it sickens me.
any suggestions are welcom.
email jaysunblum@yahoo.com
I had my domain snatched by some pornographic arses.
They used my .net to sell their incest porn of all things.
Any idea how I can get it back???
I had to move to .tv
if you google my name incest porn comes up before my music does… aweful
This is rediculous I had no idea someone could do such a thing. it sickens me.
any suggestions are welcom.
email jaysunblum@yahoo.com
I had my domain snatched by some pornographic arses.
They used my .net to sell their incest porn of all things.
Any idea how I can get it back???
I had to move to .tv
if you google my name incest porn comes up before my music does… aweful
This is rediculous I had no idea someone could do such a thing. it sickens me.
any suggestions are welcom.
email jaysunblum@yahoo.com