Domain Hijacking

[Artashes]

Web sites both big and small face the risk of having their Web addresses stolen because of flaws in the way domain names are registered, transferred and tracked.

http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=155891,00.asp

Seems like ICANN will do very little to assist in the matter, so the best recommendation is to watch your domains' back yourself.

 

[ldcdc]

Lock the domain and pray.

 

[Exon]

A little over a year ago I was given a PDF file that showed step by step how to hijack a domain. I honestly never gave it a try, but it was interesting to read.

 

[ANMMark]

Just today, one of our clients received an email from 1and1, attempting to get him to renew his domain through them. The problem....the domain is registered using our domain services.

I found the topic ironic, after receiving the forwarded email from our support team.

 

[Artashes]

OK, it is not funny...
How is it possible that our domain is affected: http://www.ecommercetalk.com/ ??

 

[webfreak08]

Ecommercetalk.com has the same IP address as iuni.com, the website that is replacing ecommercetalk.com now. Have you contacted Micfo?

 

[Artashes]

Yes, its under investigation. If I go to my IP, EcommerceTalk displays.

 

[Exon]

I had a smiliar problem once before. But the domain I had a problem with was an addon domain for another domain. The addon and the main domain were suppose to go to the same site, but the addon domain kept going to a different site entirely, in a different datacenter, from a different host. Once I removed the domain from the addon list and then recreated it the problem went away. It was kinda goofy.

 

[ldcdc]

Ecommercetalk.com works fine for me..

 

[Artashes]

Yep, they fixed it earlier today.

 

[TRau]

DNS Gremlins, gotta love 'em.