Several four letter .com domains were reported as stolen by their owner; the LLLL .com domains were moved to a separate account at GoDaddy.
The theft occurred on November 15th, and it involved the following domain names:
- DYYE.COM
- LIEA.COM
- WDRA.COM
- MRRR.COM
- MFFF.COM
In addition to these, B6F.COM and B4Y.COM were also stolen.
Short domains are currently being resold among Chinese domain investors, in a frenzy that has driven prices upwards; Chao Mi is a statistical tool that keeps track of such pricing trends on Chinese market places.
The high frequency of domain theft requires counter-measures to be in place: always enable two-factor authentication at your domain registrar.
If your domain got stolen, let us know; we report such incidents to a large domain base of investors.
