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I think it's more a case of "I forgot to renew the domain and someone jumped in and re-registered it" rather than "My site has been hijacked" This has happened
by evilmoo 14y ago
I think it's more a case of "I forgot to renew the domain and someone jumped in and re-registered it" rather than "My site has been hijacked"
This has happened in the past: http://www.out-law.com/page-4049 http://www.out-law.com/page-4049
- sordidfellow 14y agoThe whois shows that it previously expired in April 2012. I thought most registrations were for 1 year increments, so this would be a strange time for a expiration.
- MalphasWats 14y agoThere's a fairly long grace period after initial expiration when a domain is expired but can't be re-registered. It allows for the original owner to get it back (for a larger fee) before it's sniped by the next person.
- Kudos 14y ago45 days. So that doesn't explain it either. http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/accreditation/eddp http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/accreditation/e...
- MalphasWats 14y agoHmm, not as long as I thought then! Skulduggery Afoot!
- xtdx 14y agoNothing requires the new owner to immediately change DNS...
- mistercow 14y agoThe update date was 9/17, which presumably reflects the date of transfer. So this just happened today.
- xtdx 14y agoWell, an update was today. Perhaps another transfer? We don't quite have all the facts.
- mistercow 14y agoTheir twitter says it was on auto-renew, and their domain is through the same company as their hosting. If their autorenew didn't go through, their hosting probably wouldn't either, so it's hard to believe that their host would have let them skate by for five months without payment.
- thekevan 14y agoThe domain was not due to expire and according to their Twitter feed, they have auto-renew enabled as well. It was stolen/hijacked.