Warning: Stolen domain.
Domain theft has been a hot topic this year; an increased appetite by Chinese domain investors has led to numerous incidents of stolen domains.
Many of these domains end up at Chinese domain registrar and selling venue, Ename.
Ename.com has generally been uncooperative in blatant cases of domain theft, and despite efforts of losing registrars such as GoDaddy, domains rarely get returned.
In a newly uncovered incident of domain theft, the premium numeric domains 224.com, 452.com and 605.com have been declared as stolen; the previous domain registrar was eNom.
Their owner, Ian Andrew of Traffic Names Ltd., shares some additional information about the theft:
“These 3 domain names were taken from our registrar account by means of gaining access by using our login ID and password. We have no idea where they obtained these. The perpetrator then accessed our account from an IP address registered in Korea, changed the ownership details of these 3 names including the email address.
They then set a transfer out from another registrar and then authorised the transfer themselves as the ownership email address was now theirs. The first we knew was when we checked and the names had disappeared from our account. The domain names were stolen in August 2014 and we are actively engaged in an action to recover these names.”
Anyone that might acquire these stolen domains will be engaging in the act of trading stolen property.
Another domain fkd.com remains at large as well, as a buyer bought the URL of the domains email, and took possession of the account. The new party based out of turkey is trying to sell it via western union.