Jake Hoffman
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Any help for this problem I'm facing would be greatly appreciated.
This happened to my mom yesterday.
When trying to go to the website for her business, she just got a generic landing page instead of her site.
When she told me I immediately checked the whois information for her domain and found it is now owned by a random person in Estonia instead of the company who manages her website in South Africa. And it's now available for sale as a premium domain for $4000!
I've been reading and following discussions on namepros for about a year now, deciding whether to start buying and selling domains, and have heard of some scam tactics for tricking you into transfer of ownership, but is it also possible for your domain ownership to be "hacked" and transferred? Or perhaps for the company managing the website to have been hit by some virus?
Sorry I'm still pretty new to this, and still learning terminology, and what sort of threats exist in the domain industry. Any advice on what might have happened, what to research, questions to ask the company website company or perhaps a better forum for these questions would be so much appreciated!
Thanks for your time
Dr Jake
TLDR: My mother's business website is now magically just a generic landing page, owned by a random person in Estonia, and for sale for $4000. What happened?? Please help!
This happened to my mom yesterday.
When trying to go to the website for her business, she just got a generic landing page instead of her site.
When she told me I immediately checked the whois information for her domain and found it is now owned by a random person in Estonia instead of the company who manages her website in South Africa. And it's now available for sale as a premium domain for $4000!
I've been reading and following discussions on namepros for about a year now, deciding whether to start buying and selling domains, and have heard of some scam tactics for tricking you into transfer of ownership, but is it also possible for your domain ownership to be "hacked" and transferred? Or perhaps for the company managing the website to have been hit by some virus?
Sorry I'm still pretty new to this, and still learning terminology, and what sort of threats exist in the domain industry. Any advice on what might have happened, what to research, questions to ask the company website company or perhaps a better forum for these questions would be so much appreciated!
Thanks for your time
Dr Jake
TLDR: My mother's business website is now magically just a generic landing page, owned by a random person in Estonia, and for sale for $4000. What happened?? Please help!