An early morning sales thread over at DNForum was too obvious to pass: GUI.com was being offered for sale.
A top notch LLL .com that stands for “Graphical User Interface” being on sale all of a sudden?
Perusing DomainTools.com and its historical WHOIS is a great tool to uncover sudden and unexplained changes to the WHOIS.
GUI.com hadn’t changed hands in years and all of a sudden the name and email both changed during the weekend. That’s a sign of something fishy going on with regards to ownership.
What’s interesting is that the legitimate owner works for the Dallas Mavericks. How would such a premium LLL .com change over to an apparently Indian person?
Thieves that hijack domain names also want to flip them quickly or use proxy sellers to perform the deed. In the case of GUI.com it is not clear yet who the perpetrator is. The thread starter alleges that someone at Digital Point forums asked him to sell it on his behalf.
DomainTools and its historical WHOIS allowed us for contacting the legitimate owner who confirmed the domain GUI.com is NOT for sale.
