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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?
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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?
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Working on it. Am told that certain really private information was used to convince the register of my identity. Will probably be following up with the authorities after the names are returned. Still well in the 60 day registry transfer window, so that is the good news.
Do you have authenticator on your login?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.
@wwwweb and @MapleDots - I do agree, however, I think it would be best to try to let the registrar have the opportunity to make things right. After all, it will be my pleasure to be able to report things are okay within a week should that happen.
Wow.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.
Maple is right, your domains are like hot potato right now, if they have left your register, it will be a long road back, as they probably have been flipped 1-2 times already if they have liquid value.@wwwweb and @MapleDots - I do agree, however, I think it would be best to try to let the registrar have the opportunity to make things right. After all, it will be my pleasure to be able to report things are okay within a week should that happen.
any one domain we should look out for in particular?
wow, ok, ty, will be looking out.
Wow.
So if it turns around, no harm?
Come on man, it’s probably Network Solutions.
(worst registrar)
In any case, Good luck!
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
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.