STOLEN DOMAINS ALERT cool.org AND coolstudios.com

[Peter]

Yesterday a new user signed up here at namepros attempting to sell the domain cool.org.

This domain has been stolen.

The events that led upto this are as follows:-

Jenny Cool (the original owner of the domain) posts on her twitter account that she is locked out of her Gmail account (the whois for cool.org was her Gmail account).

coolorg attempts to register using an email address for this domain

cooldotorg registers on the forum using a Gmail account and posts an appraisal thread for cool.org as well as a sales thread.

Several people report the thread as suspicious.

Jenny Cool updates her twitter account again to say that her account is still locked out.

cool.org changes status to transfer pending and the whois information changed.

I send an email to jenny's email at cool and receive the following response:-

Dear Peter,

I have sold cool.org a couple of days ago.

I no longer own it.

Thanks for your concern though.

Regards,

Cool, Jennifer (PhD)

The header of the email show it is sent from Kuwait (the potential thief logged in once from a Kuwait IP as well as several AOL ip's).

5 minutes ago Jenny Cool updates her twitter account with the following :-

God I hope they're just after the 4-letter domain and that it's nothing personal. Huge thanks @glennon and @drcheezie for your alerts.

Spoke with Jenny Cool on the phone personally and have been advised coolstudios.com has also been stolen.

DO NOT BUY THESE DOMAINs.

 

[chandan]

Sponsoring Registrar:Dotster, Inc. (R34-LROR)
Status:PENDING TRANSFER

so may be she should call dotster and file unauthorized access

 

[Peter]

THIS IS 100% CONFIRMED STOLEN. AS IS coolstudios.com

I have just personally spoken with Jenny on the telephone and she has confirmed that this domain and another have been stolen.

I have advised Jenny to call Dotster as soon as they are open (tomorrow)

 

[mwzd]

Yeah, to start she should block that transfer.

Thanks for the heads up Peter, saved me some $$$...

Was about to make an offer...

 

[Peter]

Just to let you all know today the whois changed to :-

Status: CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED, CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED, CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED

The whois has also been changed back to the proper owners.

 

[chandan]

:tu: good work peter

 

[DN BROKER]

people need to stop using free emails!

 

[James]

people need to stop using free emails!

Sometimes it unavoidable, if someone does it long enough they can get it... Jenny was lucky and props to peter for actually getting the message across

 

[Peter]

The following 2 domains are POSSIBLY still in the hands of the domain thief:-

Teamonkey.com
Treachery.com

If you see these up for sale DO NOT BUY. Jenny is in the process of getting this resolved at the moment.

 

[BitcoinDK]

This is why I like NamePros and dont use other domaining forums.

Which other staff-member in other forums would have used time to check this up.

Nice job Peter.