Domain Theft

[Commerce]

Hard to believe after nearly 25 years, but I got hit by criminals who have stolen a number of my domains. Any insights beyond working with the registrar of record to resolve this quickly?

-Commerce

 

[dntaps]

Wow.
So if it turns around, no harm?

Come on man, it’s probably Network Solutions.
(worst registrar)
In any case, Good luck!

Yea, Network Solutions

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Decent names, I think you will get them back, as long as they remain at the same registrar, keep pushing.
Good luck

 

[ecomslice]

Meh

 

[Samer]

Actually several. But a little update. Having contacted the registrar support, I was advised to outline in detail the situation as an email to mail to their abuse, with an expectation of 24-48 hour response time. Ironically, their servers got back to me quite a bit faster... the message bounced. Hopefully, their legal team and my account manager will pick this up. Even so, I am going to reach out to their corporate group this morning. Based on the call, it was discovered that either forged or stolen physical credentials were used to convince them that the individual(s) were me. There is a little problem with their documentation I shall not share here. As you can imagine, I'm not pleased that along with some pretty strong names, they opted to go after my corporate identity.

The list of stolen domains discovered so far is as follows:

companies.net
experience.net
firstusa.net
ihba.com
ihba.net
ihba.org
isba.com
isba.net
pressclub.com
pressclub.net
schoolers.com
schoolers.net
clanmaitland.org
commercecompany.com
commercecompany.net
commercecompany.org
commerco.org
thecommercecompany.com
thecommercecompany.net
thecommercecompany.org

@Acroplex
(i love your reporting on ‘stolen’ names)
Hope you comment this one!

 

[bmugford]

I am not surprised it was Network Solutions. It seems to be an ongoing issue recently.

Brad

 

[LUP]

Regarding the name of the registrar, I'd prefer not to say at this time. It is one of the big guys, so I have some hope that this can be turned around. What I may do is explain some of what that took to do and how this came to pass after it is resolved.

Take a look https://www.icann.org/compliance/complaint

https://icannportal.force.com/compliance/s/transfer

 

[BuyItNows.com]

Network solutions is a joke unreliable registrar. Why do people still use it?

 

[Samer]

ICANN’s too busy giving themselves’ raises to care.

 

[Mike Goodman]

Because it's where the SnapNames successful drops are homed. We don't have options. Time the authorities did take a look. They do have a duty of care for the public's property if they are allowed the role of caretaker.

 

[Samer]

Because it's where the SnapNames successful drops are homed. We don't have options. Time the authorities did take a look. They do have a duty of care for the public's property if they are allowed the role of caretaker.

This.Thank you my friend! so much. This ^^^
Network Solutions WORST Out of ALL REGISTRARS

 

[Satoshi's Domains]

Agreed, Network Solutions is the worst customer service experience I've ever had. Huge delays, bogus charges that take forever to get refunded, can't figure out where domains are held at times...the list goes on. They are basically what would happen if GoDaddy merged with the DMV.

 

[fleaking]

I have a similar situation with Network Solutions recently...
they stole my domain and sold it to someone else(might be due to their system's glitch),
and I have reported the issue to them for more than 10 days but still got no official response yet...
their VIP support always replied me that their Fraud / Legal team is investigating the issue now...
I feel very upset and depressed about the problem and I am thinking to take a legal action against Network Solutions, any lawyer here can help with? I just want to get my domain back...

ref: https://www.namepros.com/threads/my...o-namecheap-without-my-authorization.1224520/

 

[Samer]

From what I can tell, it looks like it transferred from @netsolcares to Bizcn, Inc. between September and December of 2020. It then transferred to Key Systems, likely earlier this month.

Was the domain name sold? Even in 2020, the domain name wasn't set to expire until 2029.

— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) January 28, 2021

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[Samer]

Probably, your best course of action;

If you end up needing legal assistance, @Berryhillj, @stevanLieberman, and @TLDadvisor are IP attorneys with significant domain industry expertise, and they have dealt with this type of issue.

— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) January 28, 2021

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i like @jberryhill, consider him the best.

Good luck, mate!!

 

[Zilla]

Network solutions is a joke unreliable registrar. Why do people still use it?

I will trust them if I did not read any story here just judge by first impression...no any other reason, but their nice name "Network Solution" make me feel they are professional...so...a case describe how name is important...may be this also a reason for ur question.

 

[BuyItNows.com]

I will trust them if I did not read any story here just judge by first impression...no any other reason, but their nice name "Network Solution" make me feel they are professional...so...a case describe how name is important...may be this also a reason for ur question.

agreed NetworkSolutions is a great business name but worst services.

Meanwhile most of the great domain registrars uses average brand names.

 

[alcy]

well that's the thing about 25 years of domaining... u are more likely to own at least some liquid names...

so no random attack.. planned based on name values etc.

I guess some account hacks can be random too.

it also cant be random that in most cases its ns. but until investigations there is no proof.

 

[AEProgram]

I thought the waiting for 3 days for an auth code solves all these issues //s

 

[Mike Goodman]

They must be learning something from their aggrieved customers. Late last night after reading (and responding to) this thread I decided to move the handful of domains I had with them for more than 60 days after drop and drop-auction wins. I had to contact support, who emailed the auth codes direct to my inbox using the email address they have on file for me.

It's a very cumbersome method but safe. They're bound to come up with something less labour intensive soon but until then I'll feel what I have left with them is more secure for now.

 

[Commerce]

Take a look https://www.icann.org/compliance/complaint

https://icannportal.force.com/compliance/s/transfer

Yes, thank you for that. Have been in touch with ICANN to establish the process needed, which will begin on Monday.

 

[james haw]

Working on it. Am told that certain really private information was used to convince the register of my identity.

So the registrar didn't do due diligence and email the address on the account? Or telephone your phone number? These are basic security checks in my opinion and unless they said they had lost their (your) email/telephone accounts there's no reason the registrar shouldn't have used one of these as a means of security checking.

"I don't have my email or telephone for you to check with and I want to transfer these expensive domains" - how did this not raise alarm bells?