The aged, premium domain name Area.com has been reported as stolen.
Area.com was moved away from its registrant’s possession at Network Solutions, to BizCN in China.
The same domain registrar was used in several other recent domain theft incidents that included the high profile case of Perl.com.
Thomas E. Dell, founder of Soylent Communications, is the legitimate owner of Area.com. It seems that Network Solutions was tricked into releasing this domain to the perpetrator without the owner’s permission or consent.
If you are approached to acquire or broker the domain Area.com, keep in mind that it’s a stolen domain asset currently.
network solutions is no better now than it was in the 1990’s when they were the only registrar and million dollar
domains were commonly dropped or stolen and there response was an offer of a free domain.