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SexyTeenGals · 2004-09-30, 06:46 PM

It has been hijacked.

The details of the dns are being hidden.
This happened lightning fast. There was an update propogation order issued for 27 Sep 2004 and on the 28th I noticed intermittent 403 access errors.

Once I realized what was happening I contacted my registrar for that domain ( thankfully most of my other domains are on a different registrar ). Dan the owner of Profit Gate http://www.profitgate.net/ which is my registrar for kinkyhotbabes.com originally thought that it could be handled from his end before the propogation made it all the way through but the changes were locked out from the new registrar level from namecheap.com ( which is the enom.com reseller that this went through ).

My attempts at contacting namecheap.com and exmasters.com have resulted in no response. Dan is willing to help me from his end in any way he can by contacting these companies. Unfortunately, just like a case of trying to report copyright abuses, at this level most people immediately default to the word "legal". They're more concerned about protecting their corporate entity than they are about doing the right thing. A good example of that is the ongoing legal battle over pirated songs and movies.

I have the email address that was used to initiate the transfer request, but I don't think it would be appropriate to post that in a forum. I'll just say that it is a yahoo email account. Which I know for a fact will take a legal injuction ( or other legal action ) to produce any type of action from them.

Here is what my last receipt for the domain name looked like:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Product Created Expires Price
Domain Name
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Year COM/NET/ORG Renewal 28-JAN-02 29-JAN-05 12.95
KINKYHOTBABES.COM
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

That was the expiration date just 4 days ago and the dns would have had the same information as www.sexyteengals.com just with a different registrar company.

I went so far as to actually copy and past the entire list from my registrar page when I contacted namecheap.com. I sent them and exmasters.com an email on the 28th when I realized what was going on and like I said there was no response.

I contacted a representative of enom.com yesterday and was basically told to contact legal@enom.com with the expectation that their answer will be the default 1999 ICANN Dispute Resolution for Arbitration. Which, by the way, is at the expense of the person initiating the complaint.

Well, that's just a few more details of basically what happened here. At the moment I'm pretty busy working up a list of which sponsors I need to contact about changing my account information with. That work alone is going to take probably a week of my time.

2004-09-30, 06:46 PM	#6
SexyTeenGals Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 13	It has been hijacked. The details of the dns are being hidden. This happened lightning fast. There was an update propogation order issued for 27 Sep 2004 and on the 28th I noticed intermittent 403 access errors. Once I realized what was happening I contacted my registrar for that domain ( thankfully most of my other domains are on a different registrar ). Dan the owner of Profit Gate http://www.profitgate.net/ which is my registrar for kinkyhotbabes.com originally thought that it could be handled from his end before the propogation made it all the way through but the changes were locked out from the new registrar level from namecheap.com ( which is the enom.com reseller that this went through ). My attempts at contacting namecheap.com and exmasters.com have resulted in no response. Dan is willing to help me from his end in any way he can by contacting these companies. Unfortunately, just like a case of trying to report copyright abuses, at this level most people immediately default to the word "legal". They're more concerned about protecting their corporate entity than they are about doing the right thing. A good example of that is the ongoing legal battle over pirated songs and movies. I have the email address that was used to initiate the transfer request, but I don't think it would be appropriate to post that in a forum. I'll just say that it is a yahoo email account. Which I know for a fact will take a legal injuction ( or other legal action ) to produce any type of action from them. Here is what my last receipt for the domain name looked like: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Product Created Expires Price Domain Name ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Year COM/NET/ORG Renewal 28-JAN-02 29-JAN-05 12.95 KINKYHOTBABES.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- That was the expiration date just 4 days ago and the dns would have had the same information as www.sexyteengals.com just with a different registrar company. I went so far as to actually copy and past the entire list from my registrar page when I contacted namecheap.com. I sent them and exmasters.com an email on the 28th when I realized what was going on and like I said there was no response. I contacted a representative of enom.com yesterday and was basically told to contact legal@enom.com with the expectation that their answer will be the default 1999 ICANN Dispute Resolution for Arbitration. Which, by the way, is at the expense of the person initiating the complaint. Well, that's just a few more details of basically what happened here. At the moment I'm pretty busy working up a list of which sponsors I need to contact about changing my account information with. That work alone is going to take probably a week of my time. __________________ "I wish I took the blue pill"