Yumi.com : Dirty Chinese spammers continue to harass domain investors

Posted by DomainGang on October 20, 2016, at 3:56 pm

Serial spamming outfit, Yumi.com, has sent out a new barrage of spam to email addresses harvested from the WHOIS of domain names. We first reported those unrepentant phucksticks in August, when they sent out emails that insinuated the domains’ owners were in some kind of legal trouble. That scamming email is now being followed by […]

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Another Chinese domain spammer sending out fake expiration notices is exposed

Posted by DomainGang on October 19, 2016, at 9:05 am

Serial domain spammers from China are flooding the mailboxes of domain investors, harvesting WHOIS information. In China, this is considered a “normal” practice, to aggressively bombard others with crappy products and services. Unsolicited email, aka “spam,” generates billions of emails daily. We’ve uncovered yet another Chinese domain spammer, operating from a cluster of newly registered […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Chinese spam, Chinese spammers, Spam, Spammers, domain spam, easyescrowholding@gmail.com, phuckstick spammers

Domain theft saga the result of lack of two-factor authentication at Dotster

Posted by DomainGang on October 15, 2016, at 10:32 am

A couple of days ago, we received the following message from a distraught professional, who is not a domain investor: “I wish I didn’t have to contact you but my domain has been stolen. Details per your reporting page: Granting the right to use: Yes you are granted the right to use. Theft timeline: […]

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Alert : BullShitWebsites.com has been stolen

Posted by DomainGang on October 14, 2016, at 6:52 pm

BullShitWebsites.com, the domain of investor Chris Goh, has been stolen. The active domainer who often comments on blogs using the “BullS” moniker, contacted us about this unfortunate situation. “… found out that someone from China stole my BullShitWebsites.com doman plus some of my 4l at hostgator account. Working with hostgator to get them back.” It […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Bullshitwebsites.com, Chinese cybercriminals, Chinese thief, Chris Goh, Domain theft, Domainers, Domains, stolen domains

Domain appraisal certificate scam with a new twist

Posted by DomainGang on September 23, 2016, at 12:48 pm

The domain evaluation / certificate scam isn’t new, and it targets domain owners eager to sell their domains. The way the scam works is simple: You receive an email that expresses interest in your domain. Most of the time, it also mentions a high value dollar range, to entice you into believing the sender is […]

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Douchebag domain spammer of the week : internetregistrarorgs.com

Posted by DomainGang on September 18, 2016, at 10:53 am

A new douchebag spammer has shown its ugly phuckstick head this week. Sending out masses of spam to holders of mostly .ORG domains, the assmunching domain spammer is using internetregistrarorgs.com to facilitate this digital mass ejaculation of unsolicited email. The domain has been registered with eNom and is hosted on the same IP (184.174.84.2) as […]

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Alert : Cache of 115 LLL .com domains stolen from their owner

Posted by DomainGang on September 7, 2016, at 12:51 pm

In what appears to be the largest theft of three letter .com domains ever, a cache of 115 LLL .coms were reported stolen from their owner. Domain investor, Qiang Du, who is a California resident, lost control to the valuable domain portfolio, after his AOL email account was compromised. The list of LLL .com domains […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Domain theft, Domainers, Domains, Qiang Du, qiangcdu@gmail.com, stolen domains

Why did Chinese company Yumi.com send out fear-mongering spam?

Posted by DomainGang on August 31, 2016, at 4:26 pm

Last week, we shared information about a Chinese domain services company that blasted owners of short domains, with spam. The emails, targeted owners of premium LLL .com and LLLL .com domains en masse, most likely after extracting data from the WHOIS. We have now confirmed that the company behind this spam blast is Yumi.com, organizers […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Domainers, Domains, FCC, icann, yumi, yumi spam, yumi.com

Alert : GAG.com is a stolen domain name

Posted by DomainGang on August 28, 2016, at 1:33 pm

We have been notified that the premium, aged, three letter .com domain, GAG.com, is currently a stolen asset. Registered in 1991, GAG.com has been taken away from its owner’s control very recently. Bdale and Karen Garbee are computer consultants and legitimate owners of the domain. Mr. Bdale Garbee has his own Wikipedia entry. According to […]

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NameCheap : Bugging domainers until two factor authentication is added!

Posted by DomainGang on August 25, 2016, at 2:49 pm

One’s choice of domain registrar is quite personal. We rarely use NameCheap, as we consolidate our domains elsewhere. Still, NameCheap offers good value for domain investors and it provides an easy to manage domain platform. NameCheap also offers discount coupons and deals quite often, via Twitter. Having recently logged in to our NameCheap account, we […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with Domain registrars, Domain theft, Domainers, Domains, NameCheap.com, namecheap, registrar security, two way auth, two-factor authentication

Hacker steals @LAU Twitter account, attempts to sell it

Posted by DomainGang on August 17, 2016, at 1:39 pm

Richard Lau’s Twitter account got compromised a few days ago, by a hacker who attempted to sell it. The premium, ultra-short @LAU account was obtained by Richard Lau in May, to be used for his family. A hacker managed to gain access to the Twitter account, reset the password, and changed the email address it […]

Filed under Domain Crime · Tagged with @Lau, Domainers, Domains, Richard Lau, twitter, twitter hacker, twitter.com, two-factor authentication

Recovered domain : Omed.com is no longer stolen

Posted by DomainGang on August 15, 2016, at 11:19 am

Reclaiming a domain that has been stolen can be complicated; in the case of Omed.com, the process involved GoDaddy and a Russian domain thief. As we reported in June, Omed.com was stolen from a GoDaddy account and was transferred to one of Russia’s largest registrars, Reg.ru. We can now report that Omed.com is no longer […]

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