Tag Archives: dreamhost

Fri 29th May 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Lawsuit filed to redeem stolen X3.com domain name - Domain name was transferred to eName, a popular home for stolen domain names. The person who registered X3.com in 1995 has filed a lawsuit to recover the domain name, which he says was stolen from his DreamHost account. Anthony Alfieri-Crispin alleges (pdf) that the defendant managed to steal the domain name from his account and quickly transfer it to…where else…eName. According to a comment on Domain Name Wire, this transfer happened in the matter of less than 25 minutes. This isn’t the first ... read more ...
Sat 3rd April 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
VL.com Domain Name Stolen, Too. Here’s a Inside Story. - Beware: more stolen domain names. Yesterday I reported about the theft of YH.com. It turns out another valuable domain, VL.com, was also recently stolen. In this case it appears the weak link was web hosting company Dreamhost. That’s also the host in the YH.com case, although the actual weak link in that case hasn’t been determined. It wasn’t Dreamhost’s automated systems that are to blame. It was a human mess up, just like when Baidu’s DNS was hijacked. ... read more ...