godaddy did the same to me , extorted 50 bucks out of me

Everybody should contact ICANN, maybe they will require better safeguards from the registrars if they get enough complaints. You can send comments & suggestions to [email protected]

But please keep it professional. Sending what looks like rantings of a child won't do anything but harm to the point you're trying to make.

You can also file a problem report against individual registrars. ICANN can't solve it, but they do monitor problem reports to see trends. So show them a trend people.
http://reports.internic.net/cgi/regi...lem-report.cgi

Wow, that seems impossibly corrupt, even for Directi. They've got enormous balls.

As someone else suggested, moving back to Dotster doesn't seem that smart anyway. There were several other hijackings from Dotster since this incident, and accusations that it was not just the fault of unlocked domains. I received a message from Dotster last night that they were immediately locking all domains, but it seems to me like they're trying to imply that unlocked domains was the main cause, without answering accusations of multiple flaws in their security. It's possible that Sleazy and the other victims screwed themselves with bogus email contacts or ignoring transfer requests, but I kind of doubt that, and if it were true, I'd think Dotster would say so...in their message they didn't even acknowledged that domains were hijacked from them, they just said domain hijacking reports are "widespread across the internet," and that there have been several attempts to hijack domains at Dotster. As I see it, reports of domain hijacking *from dotster* are widespread, with larger registrars having fewer problems.

I think there were two hijackings reported from DirectNIC in the past week. At least one anyway, a high-traffic gallery site reported on GFY.

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really? I didn't hear about that... what site was it???

I think DirectNIC would do a lot more to get the domain back in a jiffy tho :2 cents:

Whoops, the gallery domain I thought was jacked from Directnic was jacked from Register.com. Directnic lost one belonging to antihotlinking.com...they didn't say which domain, but here's AHL's synopsis:

"It has come to our attention that approximately 2 days ago one of our domains has been stolen due to severe negligence on the part of our domain registrant DirecNic. This domain was used for license authorization of AHL (AntiHotLinker). Thus, for those clients who restarted their Apache web server in the last 2 days AHL has stopped protecting movies."

Registerfly lost a couple recently as well, for anyone keeping score...not sure if they're an eNom subsidiary or reseller, but I think they're connected somehow.

That sucks man... I think DNIC is still the best choice tho because they offer good support (right?). Seems like no registrar is safe anymore :(

DirectNIC does have a reputation for responsive support, and that's been my experience. Personally they're not among my top picks for security, but I haven't used them enough lately to know their current situation in detail, so my opinion isn't especially well-informed.

While no registrar is safe, some are substantially more vulnerable than others. I think all the registrars who are losing domains would do well to publicly explain how it's happening and what they're doing to address the situation - whether it's more the fault of the registrars, or more the fault of the domain owners. In some cases it's a combination...registrars may meet the minimum standards required by ICANN, but there's a lot more they could do.

your best beat is to use directnic, my domains were automatically locked after the transfer policy was passed

That's fucked up.


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Stop bitching now.

Pay the fee and get the domain back and then complain.

incredible .. what a bunch of shit man :mad:

any particular registrars you advice to use when it comes to security?

well DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

can't do a fucking thing cept bitch till monday though

arg?

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Personally I'd consider Fabulous or Moniker. Not such good user interfaces, and I haven't used either extensively enough to know their weaknesses, but I'm shifting more names to Moniker now based on approach to security and support. There are a lot of different areas in which registrars can focus, such as user interface, support, DNS management, mail and hosting services, privacy protection, security, bulk domain management, reseller services, parking page monetization, expired domain resale, and many other areas; I'm considering only security in the above suggestion.

get the domain back, pay the directni, and then... CHARGEBACK... muhahaha ;)

thanks for the advice, I'm gonna check out fabulous
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