The owner of the domain name QIR.com has reported it as stolen.
According to the owner’s statement:
“I have not received any email regarding the transfer and never authorized the transfer of this domain. This was the only domain domain that I had in my Godaddy account and because of this I hadnt logged there for a long time.”
The domain was moved from GoDaddy to Dynadot sometime in late August. According to the historic WHOIS provided by DomainTools, ownership changed to:
Registrant Name: Maksim Andrysenko
Registrant Street: Pozharskogo 7-14
Registrant City: Lipetsk
Registrant State/Province: Lipetsk
Registrant Postal Code: 389000
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +8.9858473644
Registrant Email: andrusenckomaksim@yandex.com
The current registrant of QIR.com has listed it for sale on Flippa.
Do not buy this domain!
Update: As of Novermber 2, 2015, QIR.com has been returned to its lawful owner. Read more details here.
Flippa has removed the offending listing and is looking into the seller.
Wow – I feel pretty bad for the rightful owner, but something tells me there is a phishing episode behind this story.
Bret – 99% of the time phishing is the culprit.