Registry Lock is critical for important websites, and the cost is nominal compared to the protection it affords. Last month I wrote about why companies with important websites — financial companies, large e-commerce sites, and other large ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Auto parts company’s domain stolen and held for ransom
· Policy & LawThief stole Florida company's domain and asked for 10 bitcoin ransom. A thief stole a domain name from an online auto parts company and demanded 10 bitcoin to get the domain name back. Florida company XPort Auto Parts, Inc. woke up in the middle ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Man sentenced for hijacking company’s domain name and demanding $10,000
· Policy & LawMan held former company's name for ransom and redirected it to porn site. An Arizona man has been sentenced for redirecting his former company's domain name to a porn site. Travis Tso worked for an IT company in Phoenix. In 2011 he renewed an ... Continue Reading5 Comments
UDRP panel doesn’t give back OnlineMBA.com, stolen from Moniker
· Policy & LawCompany 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 ... Continue Reading1 Comment
GoDaddy gets patent for “Domain name hijack protection”
· Domain RegistrarsPatent 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 ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Indictment Shows Ease of Hijacking Domain Name
· Domain RegistrarsThree 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 ... Continue Reading10 Comments