[88168] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain name hijack?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Mon Jan 23 18:19:31 2006
In-Reply-To: <43D55EE1.7080803@wilcomm.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:18:10 -0800
To: Wil Schultz <wschultz@wilcomm.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Are they in .org? If so, I would call PIR. More generally, I would
suggest you contact the registrar, not ICANN.
http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Wil Schultz wrote:
>
> Hey all, probably not the best place to ask this but thought that I
> would give it a shot.
>
> At my company I manage 30 or so domain names through various
> registrars, they existed before I came on board. Today I received
> an email from a person claiming ownership of one of our valuable
> ones, valuable to us anyway since we have an ASP product sitting
> behind it. Whois database says that is clearly belongs to him and
> the ICANN registrar is not one that is being used here, last
> updated 6 months ago. If this would have been changed 6 months ago
> I would have been the one to change it, and I didn't change anything.
>
> <snip>
> Created on..............: 2001-May-20.
> Expires on..............: 2010-May-20.
> Record last updated on..: 2005-Jul-25 21:29:10.
> </snip>
>
> The domain is still pointing to our DNS servers, we haven't had any
> outages to this point, looks like the admin and tech contacts were
> the only thing changed, and now 6 months later they want the domain.
>
> I've got calls into the current registrar to see what is going on,
> they were contacted at the same time I was and need some time to
> see what's going on. Anyone have any advice? Should I call ICANN?
> How can I find out what that change was on July 25th?
