Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Domains Stolen From GoDaddy

I just spoke with someone at GoDaddy and he offered to help this person restore their domain.



He wanted to make sure that it was clear that they do send an email when the email address was changed. He also said that if you discover things like this right away, there is an undo department - which you can contact if you happen to catch things quickly.



The above mentioned 60 day rule is actually a GoDaddy Rule - not an ICANN rule. This rule only locks it based on the first/last name or organization field.



ICANN has a rule that says that if you transfer from one registrar to another registrar it can't be transferred for 60 days.

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Domains Stolen From GoDaddy

I've been helping a friend try to recover a stolen domain name (was at GoDaddy) for the last week. Someone logged into the account, changed the email, and all the information on the account to something in India.



Then they transferred the domain name out of the account to a protected name service at name.com



That was over 3 months ago. GoDaddy never emailed to say "are you sure you want to change all your account info, or email address, or transfer this domain". Instead he was left blind sided by all this. Until the hacker changed his password - then he realized that something was up.



When he did discover that all this had happened - and contacted GoDaddy - they said that there was nothing they could do.



I'm pretty stumped as to how all this happened without GoDaddy so much as notifying the customer that their account information had been stolen. But this certainly doesn't make me think too highly of GoDaddy.



I am still hopeful that they will be able to recover the domain name.



He spoke with someone who looked into it all and found out that the registrant info was never changed before they transferred the domain. This was likely because of the icann rules that say that you can't transfer a domain name within 60 days of changing the registrant info.

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Monday, July 28, 2008

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Nothing like you tube marketing in staples.

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Saturday, July 05, 2008

At circuit city. In fifteen

At circuit city. In fifteen minutes looking at lcd tvs no one came over to help. Spoke with the manager, he didnt care.

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