Escrow.com protects the Buyer by allowing inspection of the merchandise before payment. This means that the buyer can change their mind and request their money back and hopefully you get your domains back.
With sedo, once they have possession of your domains and the payment then the transaction is completed and the buyer and seller cannot change their mind. Both are committed to the sale.
Sure looks like the old appraisal scam
I just checked another forum. A poster there claimed he got an appraisal and was able to sell it as a result. I REALLY DOUBT IT
Last edited by WGS_Thunder : 08-25-2008 at 11:54 AM.
Yeah, when I googled that email address, ceo@eliteinvestments.net, there were several results at other forums with the same conclusion that it was a scam.
Just thought I would let people know in case it happened to them!
These names are with eNom.com.
Can eNom freeze the domains and revert back to you?
I heard that Godaddy won't help in these situations, but thought other registrars may be better.
Actually, about a month ago I had several domains stolen from my eNom account and transferred to a GoDaddy account. Both registrars were very helpful in getting me all of my domains back.
As a side note, GoDaddy put an indefinite lock on the domains until the issue was resolved and eNom told me they would have as well, but since the domains were now at GoDaddy, their hands were tied.
I found eNom support to be helpful in the end and with a quick call, they will send you some forms to fill out in order to get the lock placed on your domain and begin the process of getting your stolen domains back.
In this case all the people I speak to at eNom give me the standard rundown:
"Unfortunately, we cannot assist you with this. eNom takes no responsibility for third-party domain sales and we do not have the authority to make judgments as to who has the rights to the domain. This is an issue that needs to be resolved through other channels."
They basically refuse to do anything, not even look at the specifics and the fraudulent account. This is not exactly a theft as far as enom is concerned as I did push the name and my account was never compromised. While I totally understand their general policy of not reversing "pushes", I would still expect them to make some exceptions and look at the bigger picture in specific instances like this one. In this case I presume most of the domains currently siting in the Inbrownstockings account were fraudulently "acquired" (I know of at least another party's name) and it would not take much time for eNom to verify things. By doing nothing, they are just assisting the scammers.
Thanks for posting this warning - I will keep an eye out. There are too many people out there trying to scam people online. I appreciate you posting this!
Depends if they went through a full drop cycle or not... if it was a registrar catch sometimes it will keep its age. If the name fully expired then yes its possible.
I contacted the owner via whois contact info and he confirms that he's selling the names here. Also says he is affiliated with a drop-catching company that obtains expired domains the second they become available.
So I guess that explains it. Just wanted to be sure I wasn't buying stolen domains.
My GD account was hacked today. In the meantime the issue with hacking of my GoDaddy account is resolved, my correct email and owner details are restored. Shenron, thank you very much for your support!
The hacker was trying to transfer out my cvcv.com, vcvc.com, and quads to moniker account. he changed PIN, email, my name (to "adam Zicher"), address (to some US address) in the account details. He also changed the whois emails in some domains (most expensive LLLL.com) and was requesting auth codes. I was not able to login to the account becase he also changed my password and PIN code for phone requests.
GD representative whom I contacted quickly verified me and restored my email (thus I was able to receive some auth codes per email the hacker was requesting, as well as the request from Moniker to approve the transfer).
As I immeadeatly locked back all the domains (the hacker unlocked them all), no transfer out was done. I hope the issue is resoled now, but I lost approx 1 hour for this.
To my regret GoDaddy rep could not give me the IP from the hacker.
For security reasons I also changed all my passwords at my other registrators.
I also got a PM from another NPer who mentioned he had the same problem after he received ICANN update email from "godaddy". I checked once again the ICANN email I have received few days ago, and it was really fraudulent (I think this was how the hacker obtained my password)
Below is the email (i expanded it in google, and it shows that the email was sent from accountupdate@godaddy.com (google usually warns if shown email is not the same as the actual email), thus it is strange.
THEREFORE BE CAREFULL WITH ICANN CONFIRMATION, CHECK THE LINK WHERE IT FORWARDS YOU!
