FCM.com, hijacked from owner in phishing attack, returned to owner
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
UDRP case returns domain to rightful owner.
Fermat Capital Management LLC has won a UDRP for the domain name FCM.com, a domain name it used to own.
According to the company, in December it fell victim to a phishing attach targeting GoDaddy customers. The phishing email was sent to the technical contact for the domain and asked him to “log in and reactivate your account”.
Unfortunately he fell for it and handed over his username and password to a thief. The domain was hijacked out of Fermat Capital Management’s account and customers started complaining about bounced emails a couple days later.
UDRP has been used multiple times in the past to recover stolen three letter domain names, but this is the first case like this in a while.
FCM.com was sold on DomainState in 2007 for $40,000.
Further Reading:
Respondent is “Mechir Macdonat” of Alabama? LOL. Totally a fake name. Looks like FCM.com was parked with Fabulous as the monetizer, so the owners might want to subpoena some info from there. Also, it appears that the hijacker was Arab (known domain thieves are from Iran), because at FCM.com a popular search term in Arabic translates to “motorcars”.
Question is – who is the registrar that wouldn’t help recover the domain?
Moniker …..
If the domain name was hijacked and transferred to another registrar, you talk to the “original” registrar where that came from. Why Go Daddy didn’t seemingly help back then, only they know.