With all the discussion and things brought to light with the CQD.com case, I took a look back at some domain thefts that were covered by publications outside the domain industry. The Huffington Post took a rather bleak stance with the following headline, "When Hackers Steal A Web Address, Few Owners Ever Get It Back" Jonathan Askin, a technology law professor at Brooklyn Law School, was … [Read more...]
The continuing saga of CQD.com
A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece about the CQD.com ordeal, a post that has become one of the all time forum reads. Since then the thread has really heated up with a lot more evidence coming out and a lot of detective work provided by some members such as TheLegendaryJp, Grilled, Silentptnr, etc... The gist of the story is that James Booth paid $25,000 plus escrow for CQD.com, the domain … [Read more...]
Milo Yiannopoulos is moving on from Hatred.com
The domain Hatred.com famously sold to Milo Yiannopoulos for $150,000 last year, it seems Milo never updated the whois so it made it look like Richard Dynas was still the owner. Richard expressed his frustration that Milo never changed the whois, which as we all know happens with some end users. Seems like Milo has changed course and will not be using Hatred.com but rather expressed interest in … [Read more...]
Customer has 8 four letter .coms stolen, be alert
John Berryhill alerted people of the following stolen 4L.coms. The following names were stolen from a GoDaddy customer: wumz.com fexz.com cclw.com yded.com clcy.com kdtx.com wohp.com ubve.com The names interactivebrain.com and cloneclothing.com appear also to have followed similar unauthorized transfer patterns. The same person attempted a theft of qauf.com, but the intended … [Read more...]
Somehow someone accidentally purchased a domain for $8,000 and they don’t want it
Another interesting thread popped up on Namepros yesterday. A new member basically posted that they bought a domain for $8,000 by accident. They don't want the name, they would like Sedo to stop threatening legal action as they don't even $5. On sedo.com a domain was mistakenly purchased by me but I don't want that domain, and I have mailed them about this problem but they are sending me mails to … [Read more...]
First DomainNames.com now DomainName.com looks to have sold
While checking the whois on some generic industry based names, I noticed that DomainName.com is now at transferservice@sedo.com. When I type in the name the lander makes me think that Yinan Wang the same buyer of DomainNames.com purchased the name. NameService.com is owned by Yinan. The domain was registered in 1997. Under privacy for years. * I contacted Yinan on Namepros and he … [Read more...]
What’s up Doc?
Still a week away to the auction close and Carrot.com is already at $61,000. 77 bids so far for the 22 year old domain name. Leave a comment where it will close, closest wins $25. You have until Tuesday night 11:59 p.m. Eastern to make a guess, then the comments will be closed. Sadly it looks like the man who owned it has been sick, the whois is a bit odd in that Michael W. Kupka an … [Read more...]