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A domain investor who acquired a LLLL .com domain via the Dan.com marketplace – formerly known as Undeveloped – has lost his investment. GoDaddy, the domain registrar, repossessed the domain gxog.com, after it was reported as stolen. The th...
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July 11, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, Repossessed by GoDaddy, stolen domains
The announcement of Libra and Calibra by Facebook triggered the inevitable: fake or copycat domains, for phishing purposes. Using alternate character sets in punycode to emulate a domain’s actual characters visually, is not new. In the case of Ca...
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July 2, 2019 DomainGang
Calibra, Domain Crime, Facebook crypto, Libra, Phishing campaigns
Millions of domains are registered every year, by people looking to defraud businesses, their employees and customers. By utilizing social engineering tactics and phishing techniques, cybercriminals register domains that impersonate trusted brands. Fro...
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June 20, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, fraudulent domains, Proofpoint
Many cybercriminals believe that they can evade the long arm of the FBI and the Homeland Security Investigations department, by switching from a .com domain, to a ccTLD. Luckily, this is not the case. Selling counterfeit goods hurts the global economy ...
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June 15, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Europol, pereehydraulique.be, Seized domains
GoDaddy has taken down 15,000 subdomains peddling a variety of “snake oil” products. According to a two year investigation, many of the domains they linked to were legitimate, belonging to customers whose accounts were apparently compromise...
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June 12, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, subdomain spam, subdomains
A Network Solutions account managing ultra-premium domain names, such as Weed.com and Wind.com has been hacked. The managing email, alex69@gmail.com is selling domains for crypto, at prices below market value. This is a common method used by cybercrimi...
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June 11, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, stolen domains, weed.com, Wind.com
Scammers have registered the domain COM-GRE.com and are using it to launch elaborate phishing campaigns targeting Greece. The domain was registered on May 23rd with NameSilo. One such phishing campaign is using the subdomain AEGEANAIR.COM-GRE.com, posi...
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June 7, 2019 DomainGang
Aegean Air, aegeanair.com-gre.com, com-gre.com, Domain Crime, malware domains, Phishing Domains, scam domain
Stolen domains are often listed for sale on domain auction platforms, and such attempts might be difficult to thwart. Automated ownership validation isn’t a surefire process, simply because having control of a domain asset doesn’t necessari...
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May 15, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Sedo stolen domains policy, stolen domains
Sedo, a DomainGang sponsor, sent us an update on the termination of the auction for WBS.com – a domain that has been reported as stolen by its owner. Sedo’s representative confirmed that the legitimate owner initiated the auction cancellati...
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May 14, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, LLL .com domains, sedo auctions, WBS.com, WBS.com stolen, WBS.com stolen domain
The domain name WBS.com has been reported as stolen, and Sedo is investigating the reports, all while the domain is in auction without a reserve. WBS.com was registered in 1995, and was used for years as a host of the World Billfishing Series. Accordin...
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May 13, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, stolen domains, WBS.com, WBS.com stolen, WBS.com stolen domain