Moniker under fire as honest buyers got ‘tea-bagged’ by flawed credit system
Moniker is under fire once again, after a domain that changed ownership several times in recent months, was deemed as “stolen” and was reclaimed. In a sticky – and stinky, for Moniker – situation unfolding over at top domain forum, DNForum.com, the domain HKE.net was sold to domain investor James Booth, brother of popular domainer […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Stolen domains aftermarket still going strong, says Iraqi hacker
The domain aftermarket for stolen domain names is witnessing an unprecedented boom, according to an elite Iraqi hacker. Babak Abdul Mazandar, who goes by the pseudonym 8bitZax online, has been hacking into domain registrars for years. He is not afraid of being caught, because such acts are actually encouraged by the Iraqi government. “If silly […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Success! Stolen domain WTD.com returned to rightful owner
“All’s well that ends well.” This Shakespearean play title would perfectly suit the case of the (formerly) stolen domain name, WTD.com. After reporting WTD.com as stolen in February and alerting the domain community, the legitimate owner established a due process that despite his legal background took several months to complete. At the time, WTD.com was […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Stolen domain name Gmix.com changes hands once again
We’ve been tracking the status of domains we reported and documented as stolen in the past; one of them is Gmix.com – a domain that was stolen along with others from its Norwegian owner. Unlike the rest of the stolen domains from the same batch that were still at Moniker, this domain had its contact […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Stolen domain update: WTD .com frozen at GoDaddy
In February of this year we disclosed that the domain name WTD.com has been stolen from its rightful owners, via a proxy method. That method, however simplistic as it might be, involves the recreation of the managing email for that domain, if it belongs to a domain that expired. The current holder of WTD.com not […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Anglotopia: More domains stolen from GoDaddy by Russian hackers
A domain and business owner describes his domain saga, involving GoDaddy and domain hackers from Russia and Ukraine. The latter, tried to extort the owner asking for a sizable ransom of $24,000 to be paid in exchange for four profitable domains: Anglotopia.net Londontopia.net Aussietopia.net BudgetBritainGuide.com By accessing the Gmail account managing the domains at GoDaddy, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.ALERT: Domain name WTD.com has been stolen from its rightful owner
The domain name WTD.com is being offered for sale on several venues, including DNForum; this premium LLL .com has been stolen from its rightful owner, a British solicitor. So how did they do that? According to DomainTools, the managing domain ProfReg.com was allowed to lapse and expire, and in a matter of days, it was […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Apple trademark among handful of newly stolen domain names
An Italian domainer lost a handful of domain names to unknown hackers, according to a post at DNForum. These included the obvious Apple trademark, iPad.in and a 2-character .biz set consisting of 7x.biz, b8.biz, 8w.biz, 8b.biz and 8t.biz. Not the best of ‘gems’, however, they could be offered for sale to some unsuspected buyer. Most […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Large batch of domains stolen from Norwegian domainer – How did they do it?
A large batch of mostly LLLL .com domain names has been stolen from its rightful owner, Norwegian domainer Rune Holte. This post serves both as an alert to the list of stolen domains and a ping to the rightful owner, who’s quite probably unaware of the theft. GMIX.com was offered for sale on DNForum by […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Stolen, high traffic domains at GoDaddy successfully recovered
Hesham Zebida is the founder of a bloggers community called “Famous Bloggers” and a few days ago two of his most valuable domain names, registered at GoDaddy, were stolen. The thief then tried to blackmail Zebida into buying his domains, FamousBloggers.net and ThesisAwesome.com, for $999 – after they were moved away from GoDaddy to another […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Domain theft report: zhibo8.com unlawfully transferred to eNom
We received this report of a stolen domain, zhibo8.com – and we publish it unedited. The story is scary, because the domain involved has a tremendous amount of traffic associated with it. Shame On Enom! My website domain name stolen, rank 1600+ in Alexa My domain name is zhibo8.com,which is ranked 1600+ in alexa.The Biggest […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.New string of Stolen Domains starts off 2012 on DNForum
A ‘Stolen Domains‘ thread over at NamePros which was started in July 2011, received the addition of dozens more stolen domains today, thus marking these as the first reportedly stolen domains of 2012. It appears that scammers using a series of stolen accounts, stolen identities and compromised PayPal accounts attempted to sell a large number […]
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