These days domain thieves seem to have a preference with GoDaddy, utilizing social engineering to gain access to accounts and steal valuable domains.
Several 3-Letter .com domains have been identified as stolen recently and have been offered for sale on DNForum, NamePros and Flippa.
These stolen domains are:
- KOH.com – attempt to sell on Flippa ended with the seller getting banned
- AGH.com – same seller as above; seller banned on Flippa.
- VYQ.com – attempt to sell on Flippa ended with the seller getting banned; pending banning on DNForum
- ASG.com – same seller as with VYQ.com ended with the seller getting banned on Flippa.
- GKZ.com – same seller as with VYQ.com managed to sell the domain on Flippa. Status unclear.
- MXX.com – same seller as with VYQ.com – offered it privately to DNForum members. Status unclear.
The common denominator of those attempted sales: Seller only accepts Paypal, starting price is an undervalued $2k – $2,500 and seller won’t accept Escrow.com
Be careful out there!
How were the domains stolen?
Time to call the Domain Busters–burst their knees off.
Or call the Domain Seal 6
Great work bringing this to light. Will post this on my domain forum.
Crucial that stuff like this is put out there. Lets stop these scumbags.
We need a central place ONLY for notifications of stolen domains. That way these guys get stopped in their tracks and nobody falls victim to them.
Good work!
Thiefs should be hang by the balls!!
Don’t forget ALF.com which was recently in a no reserve auction @ Sedo. I found the whois info suspicious and contacted Sedo about it, a few hours later the auction was cancelled.
I haven’t heard back if it was stolen or not, but it most likely was. I also tried contacting the original owner via Flickr (only place I could find his current contact info :)), but I never heard back.
Think before bidding!
“… thieves seem to have a preference with GoDaddy, utilizing social engineering to gain access to accounts and steal valuable domains”
Can you describe further as how they “utilize social engineering” to gain access to accounts? It’s good to understand as how they access it, and we can avoid from loosing domain names.