On 3/22/2009 7:15 PM, Ross Cassell wrote to Jeff Binkley:


-> I think when transferring domains to another registrar or owner, a
domain key
-> needs to be issued by the domain holder, so I am not sure how they might
have
-> pulled whatever they did to her off, since it also involves email exchanges.


It does now. Simply because Network Solutions was lax allowed it to happen.
The first I even knew about it was when I went to make a post on my blog
and the domain was gone. Logging into my account at NS showed they had
transferred the ownership...with a paid year left. Refused to refund my
money for that last year, too. So, the hijackers got the domain for free
for a year. Then they let it expire. It didn't go to the aftermarket for a
year after that.

In the meantime, I transferred all my domains to GoDaddy and asked them to
investigate for me and keep an eye open for when that particular domain
came back up for sale. I got it back. It was a pain in the ass to rebuild
everything in a new domain and try to notify everybody of where it was. But
that was the idea behind the hijacking...to try to shut me up.

Before you call that paranoia, consider; the hijacked domain was not the
most common one (.com), it was a secondary (.net). The only thing there was
the blog. (Thank goodness...if they'd shut down the .com, they'd have
killed off the business account that prefers to host with me. THOSE people
would not have been amused to the point of calling in the federal computer
crime squad for restraint of trade)



 
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