Tag Archives: domain hijacking

Wed 23rd September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
UDRP row doesn't give behind OnlineMBA.com, stolen from Moniker - Company says domain name was stolen from its Moniker account, but UDRP panel determines it didn’t prove trademark rights. An Austin company that once owned OnlineMBA.com has failed to recover the allegedly stolen domain name through a UDRP. Mascot Media Circle, LLC has owned the domain name since 2010. This summer it realized it was no longer in control of the domain name, and alleges that it was stolen from its Moniker account. This sounds plausible, given the number of security issues discussion ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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GoDaddy gets obvious for “Domain name steal protection” - Patent is mostly about whois proxy email services. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,751,685 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Domain name hijack protection”. The patent, applied for in 2010, is actually a divisional patent of an application I wrote about in 2008. The earlier patent application hasn’t been granted yet. The majority of the patent is about whois proxy services (e.g. DomainsByProxy) rather than domain theft prevent; It’s a ... read more ...
Fri 20th November 2009
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Indictment Shows Ease of Hijacking Domain Name - Three hackers indicted for hijacking domain name. An indictment against three hackers involved in hijacking the Comcast.net domain name last year shows how easy it is to pull it off: just get access to the administrative contact’s email address. The U.S. government has charged three hackers with doing just that, and using the email address to change the nameservers on Comcast.net at domain name registrar Network Solutions. Blame the hackers, but also Comcast for ... read more ...