Lawsuit filed on CostaRica.com

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George Kirikos has uncovered a lawsuit filed on the domain name CostaRica.com. The domain allegedly has been stolen.

Now that I have had a chance to look at the Pacer file, it looks like the plaintiff is stating the domain was stolen in 2015 or early 2016.

The complaint alleges that the hacker  using  a  stolen  username  and password successfully “hacked” the MelbourneIT registration  account of the Plaintiffs and transferred the Disputed Domain to its current registrar at Name.com.

Upon information and belief, this hacker accessed Plaintiffs’  registration account, changed the administrative settings to forward Plaintiffs’ emails and mail to addresses not controlled by the Plaintiffs, and initiated a transfer of the Disputed Domain.

This hacker apparently changed the mailing address to an address in Menlo Park in California where he could receive mail then  subsequently put a privacy service on the registration of the  Disputed Domain to hide the fact the hacker had converted it.

The hacker did not redirect the domain so the website continued to function properly. This meant the plaintiff did not notice the domain had been stolen. The plaintiff contacted Name.com who told them they could do nothing for them.

 

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Comments

  1. Andrea Paladini says

    As far as I can see, now Whois shows an alleged guy from Nasr City, which is a district of Cairo, with a postcode 11511, mobile number is probably Vodafone Egypt (+20 10 +8 numbers), but I’ve not tested it.

    Domain Name: COSTARICA.COM
    Registrar: NAME.COM, INC.
    Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 625
    Whois Server: whois.name.com
    Referral URL: http://www.name.com
    Name Server: NS2.SECURE.NET
    Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
    Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
    Updated Date: 25-nov-2016
    Creation Date: 10-mar-1995
    Expiration Date: 11-mar-2017
    >>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:17:11 GMT <<>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-11-27T15:17:20-07:00 <<<

    • Andrea Paladini says

      A portion of Whois was missing, here we go.

      Admin Name: Amal zakero
      Admin Organization: zakeroco
      Admin Street: nasr city
      Admin City: ciaro
      Admin State/Province: None (International)
      Admin Postal Code: 11511
      Admin Country: EG
      Admin Phone: +20.1034054549
      Admin Email: Alejandropicado@outlook.com
      Registry Tech ID:
      Tech Name: Amal zakero
      Tech Organization: zakeroco
      Tech Street: nasr city
      Tech City: ciaro
      Tech State/Province: None (International)
      Tech Postal Code: 11511
      Tech Country: EG
      Tech Phone: +20.1034054549
      Tech Email: Alejandropicado@outlook.com
      >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-11-27T15:17:20-07:00 <<<

  2. brian says

    It seems odd that a US based registrar was the transfer in registrar vs. some kind of “laws” in china or Russia that would uphold the alleged fraud