GoDaddy & Wild West Domains - Stolen domain names!

[Stolen-Domain-Names]

I’m putting together a list of Godaddy and Wild West Domains (Godaddy Reseller) customers who have had their domain name stolen from them.

Please only post links of Godaddy or Wild West Domains customers complaining of stolen domain name(s).

1. Court cases of Godaddy or Wild West Domains costumers who have had their domain name stolen.

2. Any link where some one claims they had their domain name stolen that was a Godaddy or Wild West Domains customer as long as they list the name of the domain name. I can then pull up historic records on the domain name and if the domain name had not fully expired show a pattern of financial fraud by Godaddy and Wild West Domains perpetrated on their customers. Also, Godaddy and Wild West Domains may need to answer some taxation/accounting question to the government.

3. If you are the victim simple email me your domain name and the Month, Day and year of incident. You do not have to share any information just the name of the domain name.

Email: [email protected]

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Post: You Links Here



Feel free to post, blog. Or Email this information.

 

[DubDubDubDot]

Instead of planning a class action, spend your time educating people on the importance of strong passwords, keeping your machine clean of spyware, not using gMail, etc...

GoDaddy isn't being hacked. The people who lose domains do something that allows the thief in.

 

[FX]

Instead of planning a class action, spend your time educating people on the importance of strong passwords, keeping your machine clean of spyware, not using gMail, etc...

GoDaddy isn't being hacked. The people who lose domains do something that allows the thief in.

Good Post..it's better to do the above

 

[eyedomainous]

Instead of planning a class action, spend your time educating people on the importance of strong passwords, keeping your machine clean of spyware, not using gMail, etc...

GoDaddy isn't being hacked. The people who lose domains do something that allows the thief in.

Are there domain security issues using Gmail I'm not aware of??
Please advise.

 

[Jaco]

Kinda interested to hear more about gmail vulnerabilities myself... Is there an *active* security gap in gmail that I'm just totally not hearing about?

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Evidently, it is easy to hack into a freebie account, such as Yahoo mail and Gmail.

It's better to use a domain-based email.

I do notice that I get practically no spam on my domain email.

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[Andr3w]

There are a few guidelines that if followed you will never face such situations:

1. Use a worthless domain name for the e-mail associated with your registrars accounts. (hey, if you don't have one, go register someshittyname.info). If you ask me, a gmail, safemail will be pretty safe itself if not used anywhere else.
2. You'll only use this in a few places (GoDaddy, Name.com NameCheap, eNom, Moniker etc.). Nowhere else!!. Of course, you should have different passwords with each registrar.
3. Do not use it as the whois e-mail!!

It's very unlikely you'll ever get any spam to this e-mail.

 

[Spade]

OP,

I feel like your posting simply lacks any substance. You dont include your name, your a first time poster, and you list no evidence or reasoning. I can only assume you had domain names stolen, but since you list no details about it, how do we know if it was even a Godaddy problem or if it was a mistake you may have made that caused you to lose domains?

 

[Stolen-Domain-Names]

Where you born yesterday? Do you live in a cave? Etc.

1. Godaddy even list in Wikipedia about customers having their domain name(s) being stolen. Not sure how that got by a savvy bunch like you.
2. Google the topic and cases are ever where. But I guess search engine(s) slipped by you as well.
3. You don’t even need to hack to steal domain name(s) at Godaddy. You just need to know how to lookup a domain name in whois. But I can see how on a domain name website that’s for people to blog about domain names that got by you as well.

First, you need to be aware that there is no Santa Clause. Second, we need to agree that this is the year 2010. Third, anything that has a password thief’s hold on boys here comes a new big word hackers have tried to hack into the system.

INVALID E-MAIL ADDRESS IN WHOIS
1. Open an account at Godaddy.com
2. Back Order a Godaddy customer’s domain name.
3. Go to who.godaddy.com to get the contact information of the domain owner and at the bottom of the page Report Invalid Whois.
4. Report the email of the domain owner from the contact in Report Invalid Whois.
5. If the email is inaccurate or the don't email Godady.com will delete the domain name from the owners account even if all other information is correct.
6. You are now the owner of the domain name, and you just made Godaddy.com $18.99 and $7.69+ that Godaddy.com keeps from the original domain name owner.
This is listed in Wikipedia

CANCEL BUTTON
1. Open an account at Godaddy.com
2. Back Order a Godaddy.com customer’s domain name.
3. Press the cancel button on the domain name.
4. The Domain name is deleted from the owners account.
5. You are now the owner of the domain name, and you just made Godaddy.com $18.99 and $7.69+ that Godaddy.com keeps from the original domain name owner.

But I can see how this got by a domain name board I mean it’s only listed in court case and blogged about and listed on Wikipedia.


Now I return back to more important topics like what is a domain name hmmm? How did that little magical thing get here?

 

[Spade]

Oh where Oh Where Oh where do I begin.

Domain owners are required by ICANN to keep their whois information accurate, bottom line. Is the method you described a bit unethical? You bet it is. However, being disagreeing with a system that is in place, is not grounds for calling it theft or fraud. I also believe Godaddy put an end to this practice of cancelling domain names with invalid whois and giving it to the backorder, my understanding is this was stopped almost 2 years ago (if I recall accurately)

The 2nd Method you've listed, I still dont quite understand. Your saying by placing a Backorder, you can login to the original owners account and cancel it from there?

You've also still failed to address any other questions. Who are you? What domain in specific are you referring to? and postings on Wikipedia hardly qualifies as truth.

 

[Stolen-Domain-Names]

You forgot to mention you a Godaddy customer well enjoy the Kool-aid. And its good to know Murfressboro, Tennessee is cyber crime free. For you crime is the chipmunk in the bushes, humping a turtle. You gotta be careful with them chipmunks.

 

[Spade]

You forgot to mention you a Godaddy customer well enjoy the Kool-aid. And its good to know Murfressboro, Tennessee is cyber crime free. For you violent crime is the chipmunk in the bushes, humping a turtle. You gotta be careful with them chipmunks.

Yes, I am a Godaddy Customer. However, if there is an issue - Im all about resolving it for the safety of my own domain names.

However, you've failed to present a credible argument, and name calling only makes you look ridiculous.

 

[DubDubDubDot]

5. If the email is inaccurate or the don't email Godady.com will delete the domain name from the owners account even if all other information is correct.

They stopped doing this in 2007 after one highly publicized incident. It was probably a lot less common than what people made it out to be. Yet GoDaddy bashers continue to talk about it as if it can still be done and is a serious threat.

CANCEL BUTTON
1. Open an account at Godaddy.com
2. Back Order a Godaddy.com customer’s domain name.
3. Press the cancel button on the domain name.
4. The Domain name is deleted from the owners account.
5. You are now the owner of the domain name, and you just made Godaddy.com $18.99 and $7.69+ that Godaddy.com keeps from the original domain name owner.

How do you think the theif gets into the account to cancel the domain?

---------- Post added at 08:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:09 PM ----------

Evidently, it is easy to hack into a freebie account, such as Yahoo mail and Gmail.

It's better to use a domain-based email.

Pretty much.

You've still got potential issues with the email client/script that receives your domain email though.

 

[Jaco]

OK, so it's been said "don't use gmail" and "evidently, it's easy to hack into gmail" and then "pretty much".

Can someone point to something a little more solid and credible than this?
I mean, I know that there were a few vulnerabilities in the past that have since been corrected, but are there any *active* threats as far as compromising gmail accounts that don't involve blatant user idiocy (no antispyware software, giving it away to a phisher, etc) ?

I find it very hard to believe that the engineers at Google would leave gmail "easy to hack" but I'm open to the fact that maybe I'm just missing something that might be common knowledge in some subculture I'm not a participant in. If so, I'd really like to see something solid to support this claim before I start jettisoning my very old, well used and well loved gmail accounts.

 

[abell.j.swank]

ok, i have some question here,

I see some of you said that using the free email account like gmail and yahoo have a higher risk to be hacked.

but what if i use my own domain email, but fetched using gmail. is it safe?