Lawsuit claims 11 domain names such as 0001.com were stolen.
Gong Fan of Shenzhen, China has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to recover 11 numeric .com domain names that he alleges were stolen from him.
According to the suit, Gong Fan is the original registrant of 0001.com, 6007.com, 00088.com, 10099.com, 00086.com, 98988.com, 88199.com, 00018.com, 00019.com, 00020.com and 00021.com. He registered the domain names between 1998 and 2004.
His Gmail account was compromised between August 22 and September 20 of this year and the perpetrator stole the domain names, he claims.
The case was filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia, which is where .com registry Verisign is located. In similar cases, judges have entered default judgments when the thief didn’t respond and have ordered Verisign to transfer the domain names back to plaintiff.
Stevan Lieberman of Greenberg & Lieberman is representing the plaintiff.
Domainer says
I don’t use gmail to secure my domains.
But, I thought gmail was difficult to hack unless using keystroke malware.
I realize nothing is secure.
I hope the domain owner is successful.
Stevan is an excellent IP lawyer.
Andrew Allemann says
You need to turn on two factor to reduce the chances of this happening.
Domainer says
I use it whenever it is offered by a secured site.
Acro says
The domains were stolen from Name.com. He must have not had 2FA enabled. Perhaps a phishing email is targeting Name.com customers?
Luckily, his more valuable domains, 03/04/09 .com are safe.
Mansour says
You are looking to about $500k USD worth of domains specially 0001.com good luck..