Something weird happened with this domain name a decade ago.
A National Arbitration Forum panel has ordered the domain name RGF.com be transferred to RGF Environmental Group, Inc., which previously owned the domain name.
The current owner of the domain name did not respond to the UDRP, and this doesn’t appear to be a normal case of domain theft.
The respondent has been listed as the owner since at least 2008. As best I can tell, it was a domain name reseller through which the complainant registered the domain name and perhaps hosted the website.
Because the same website continued to be hosted on the site since it was transferred in 2007-2008, the complainant didn’t become aware of the ownership change until just recently.
The current whois record on RGF.com has a fake phone number.
This is a weird one.
Josh says
I helped recover and then bought a LLL .com just a year ago or so that had a similar situation. Domain was stolen, thief left the dns unchanged for over 4 years at this point! The owners a nice couple at first did not realize it had happened but once they did were unsure how to proceed since so many years had past. I was able to use the fact the thief left the dns/page untouched and had an IP out of a foreign land. The rar knows where the requests to transfer come from and when you add that to no reply from thief, no proof of purchase and a nice couple who swear it was stolen and look we still have our page…. recovery!
My theory is the thief will sometimes leave dns untouched and hope as years pass the issue will not be noticed and make a move from there. Either that or someone was just “having fun”.
John Berryhill says
Yes. I’ve seen that pattern a lot.
Joseph Peterson says
Good to be aware of that pattern.