information Did Network Solutions conspire to allow this domain name to be stolen?

[Addison]

So I’m documenting this cautionary tale because I feel I owe it to other poor unsuspecting domain name owners and businesses to NEVER trust any network solutions company (web.com, networksolutions.com, register.com), with your domains. Why? Because they allowed our domain to be stolen clean out of our account despite appropriate checks. But I’m jumping ahead. Lets start from the beginning…

Remember, we never sought this domain name. NameKart contacted us out of the blue. And with these domain brokers, you buy it from them, you never find out who the owner actually is. And having paid for it, we didn’t receive it for days and then when we did we were told we had to transfer it into a networksolutions account that we had to set up and specify.

Then 3 months to the day later, a transfer request came in. Despite deauthorizing it, making sure the transfer lock was on and changing all security it was transferred out of the account. And was immediately up for sale with a new domain broker. Again, without it being possible to know who owns it now. My mind is perhaps over-thinking it but what if this whole thing is just a setup. What if the person or person(s) behind this have help within networksolutions or indeed work there?

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@namekart, any superfluous details to add?

 

[tonyk2000]

attempting to sell domain on pending delete is probably far more widespread

Some are making living on it.... And they made a legitimate outbound marketing irrelevant. Legitimate - it is where the sellers do own what they are trying to sell, where real senders names are used (and not random John Smith in one email and Steven Smith a few min later with a very close text but to another privacy-protected email), where the texts are comopsed individually with a prior finding of responsible contact names on another end, etc...

 

[BaileyUK]

I do understand tonyk2000, It had crossed my mind that there was a viable business model in attempting to sell (non-owned/pending delete) domains and as mentioned I received enough proposed offers in this format to just to take a few moments to check the status of half-a-dozen or so myself. I could imagine it would actually be a growing base for those that are willing to put the work in for probably a very low response rate but nevertheless $$ to be had.

this thread just happened to coincide with the thread about 'responding to email offers'. and of course the dictated registration service to accept the transfer in just seems to tally things-up

 

[offthehandle]

There is one standout spammer. This guy has literally sent me 500 emails from variations of origin email.

"D.e.j.a.n. .... G"

Thanks. Yea, I edited fast, thanks forgot about that in the haste to post.
I dunno if I want to repost them. Not sure if anyone else would care really or not.

 

[tonyk2000]

Yes, very familiar. Especially "If you do not wish to be contacted again" part. Received a few earlier today. @offthehandle maybe you can edit links code from http to something else not to give his sites more exposure and se ratings/backlinks. Here they are mentioned in negative aspect, but still... backlinks

 

[namezest]

They get thumbs down from me.

 

[FolioTeam]

Yet another Netsol tale

 

[Name Trader]

Are you tracking and categorizing your spam?? Just a curiosity. For me spam is always spam whether it is from "Adam Smith" or a random first/last name combinations or best-domains-info dot info, or anything else they register each day... and they still call it legitimate outbound marketing.

How do you setup a spam filter for random first/last name combinations?