I thought email had gotten very quiet over the last day or so. Better yet, we’ve been painting the livingroom, so I’ve been off the net mostly for the past few days. Yesterday my email seemed a little off, and today it was pretty much nonexistent. Now I know why. Some sleazeball apparently got access to my domain hosting account, apparently from intercepting email (!!!!!), and transferred my domain out. The one I’ve had since 1993.
The domain provider is getting it back. There’s an ICANN procedure for this kind of thing. Un-freaking-believable.
I wonder if I can sue them or get them in trouble otherwise in DK? As this smoking-gun photo shows, backed up by my domain provider’s logs, they broke into my domain provider account and deliberately hijacked it:
Domain Name: virtual.net
Registrar: THE NAME IT CORPORATION DBA NAMESERVICES.NETRegistrant Contact
Name: Domain Manager : GreatDomains@inbox.com
Address: Sattarkhan Blvd.
Copenhagen, DK 2400
DKEmail Address: greatdomains@inbox.com
Phone Number: (+45)331-530Administrative Contact
Name: Domain Manager : GreatDomains@inbox.com
Address: Sattarkhan Blvd.
Copenhagen, DK 2400
DK
Email Address: greatdomains@inbox.com
Phone Number: (+45)331-530Technical Contact
Name: Domain Manager : GreatDomains@inbox.com
Address: Sattarkhan Blvd.
Copenhagen, DK 2400
DK
Email Address: greatdomains@inbox.com
Phone Number: (+45)331-530Record Created on…….. 1993-04-14 00:00:00.000
Record last updated on… 2007-12-27 23:02:08.956
Expire on……………. 2009-04-15 00:00:00.000
I don’t know the relevant Danish law, but it smells like felony fraud to me.
The same folks just stole one of my domains (retry.com) a few hours ago (I’m working on getting it back). You should file a police report. If inbox.com gets enough official complaints then they might at least nuke their mailbox (not much but still worth doing). Interesting that the phone number that they used for my domain (+45.49284984) is different than the one they used for your domain. Still, they used the same e-mail address so it is almost certainly the same thieves.