Communism.com, auctioned at Sedo 03/18, stolen

For one reason or another I thought to visit Communism.com today, remembering that it sold early 2018 in an auction I had been watching. Out of curiosity, I also visited communism.org, and was surprised to see this claim referring to communism.com, struggle.net and pix.org:

Communism.com sold for just over $10k at Sedo, and is now listed for $200k+. I vaguely remember seeing pix.org for sale this year, but I can't find any record for it so I may be wrong.

Either way, just a warning - yet another case of a stolen name successfully selling at Sedo.

 

WHOIS History Breakdown for Communism.com

WHOIS Updated Date: 2018-03-10T14:29:18Z On March 10th, 2018, Communism.com WHOIS record changed Registrant Organization from long time registrant Weapon of Transparency to Domains By Proxy, LLC. The domain remained at GoDaddy.

NameBio: Sale March 31st, 2018 for $10,099 via @Sedo



WHOIS Updated Date: 2018-04-06T08:25:01Z On April 6th, 2018, WHOIS changed from Domains By Proxy, LLC to Sedo, LLC (Transfer Service)

WHOIS Updated Date: 2018-06-08T20:17:40Z On June 8th, 2018, WHOIS registrar changed from GoDaddy (tagging @Paul Nicks to inform a GoDaddy rep) to Name.com (tagging @name.com) Domain Protection Services, Inc.

**WHOIS History from DomainIQ.com

 

Thanks for the info

 

Digging a little deeper...

Pix.org



Archive Screenshot of Pix.org on March 18th, 2018 shows:



April 11th, 2018 archive.org screenshot shows the domain pointed to an efty landing page.

Struggle.net



If the alleged original owner hasn't already, he might want to consider reaching out to the decency of the new owners, explain the situation, and humbly ask each Sedo buyer to share the sellers information. -- short of taking an official legal approach subpoenaing appropriate parties.

If one buyer reveals the seller information, he can ask the other buyers to simply confirm or deny if they purchased the domain from the same seller. Even if the domains were sold by the same seller, WHOIS updates would need to be confirmed to ensure the domains weren't quickly sold to an unknowing SEDO seller, as unlikely as it may seem.

 

I have placed bids on this auction and I guess it was $x,xxx USD bid(s)!