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Over 1,000 High Quality Domains Stolen
Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 6 Comments »
A story is doing the rounds on NamePros, DomainBits, DNForum and Conceptualist about an Iranian hacker who has managed to amass a collection of over 1000 stolen high quality domain names by hijacking email accounts. Examples of domain names stolen in this fashion include: Problems.com, Mistake.com, Enroll.com, Damaged.com, Statement.com, Evaluate.com, UnClear.com …
The guy has setup a “portfolio” on the domain name LuxaryDomains.com and is trying to offload the names at cheap prices. The domains were stolen by hijacking of said domains’ owners mail accounts – most likely with a technique similar to what happened to Sarah Palin’s Yahoo mail account recently.
What can you do to protect yourself? As Sahar of Conceptualist.com rightly points out, make use of registrar features like Moniker’s MaxLock or something similar at other registrars. Also, make sure you do the simple things right – don’t make it easy for the crooks to guess your mail account security questions and change your mail account and registrar passwords often.
Let’s hope these domains are recovered quickly and the crook is held accountable.
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Scary stuff. Surely there’s something the original owners can do to get their names back?
Looks like the website is down now – wonder why…
It’s probably down as registrars/domainers have got together to try and stop this crook.
Wow we are in the wild wild west.I guess that we will have to put up are guns.
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Don’t let Bush hear about this or it might be enough to invade Iran
lol jk.
I’m surprised registrars are not more helpful, more often, in getting domains back from the obvious thieves. I realize it would be a mess and hard to always know but sometimes it’s pretty obvious.