Domain thieves continue to provoke while Registrars deny the owners basic rights!

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No quick resolution of domain thefts is currently possible.

A brazen Russian thief stole the domain name MLA.com and then fabricated an electronic exchange of a supposed Bitcoin sale.

Despite owning this domain since the 90’s, Chicago professional Michael Lee has gone to extreme lengths, trying to prove this is his property.

Internet BS, the registrar where the domain was moved to, refused to return it, despite all the efforts and evidence presented by Michael Lee and GoDaddy. The domain is frozen, pending the verdict of a lawsuit filed by its legitimate owner.

Recently, See.com was stolen from a Moniker account and was peddled for $60,000. Legitimate owner, Mike Loucks, is furious over the lack of coordination between domain registrars, to reclaim stolen property.

“I have to prove I’m not an elephant, all while some thief from Egypt proclaims he bought the domain from another Egyptian fella. The system is broken at its very foundation.”

New evidence in the See.com case matches the thief to the theft of at least two more three letter .com domains, moved between accounts at Moniker. The party at loss in that case, is domain investor Nat Cohen, who also blogged about the ordeal he faced at Moniker. The domains were eventually reclaimed, as no registrar change occurred.

Future Media Architects founder, Elequa, had to resort to legal arm-twisting via a prominent law firm, to motivate Moniker’s action on the subject of several stolen domains. He has yet to receive all of them back.

All these cases share the same frustrating elements: A domain registrant’s account at a registrar gets infiltrated, domains get stolen, and the gaining registrar seeks outlandish forensic evidence in order to return them to their owner of several years.

This would never be a problem, if ICANN’s bureaucracy planned for and defined digital titles of ownership for domain names.

In the meantime, business owners and private domainers face red tape, frustration and substantial monetary loss while trying to get back what is already theirs.

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