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Heritage Auctions, that often handles premium domain auctions, was targeted by a malware attack. The activity has caused extensive downtime to its auction platform system, that has not been fully restored yet. Active auctions have been extended or resc...
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October 21, 2019 DomainGang
cybercrime, Domain Crime, Heritage Auctions
Alvalu Designs is a family-owned business in California that creates custom stickers, decals, banners, shirts and more. Their domain name, AlvaluDesigns.com, appears functional, but according to a video shared on YouTube by its owner, the domain is bei...
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October 20, 2019 DomainGang
Alvalu Designs, Domain Crime, SIERRA STICKERS, sierrastickers.com
Discrimination.com was temporarily stolen yesterday, after an alleged hacker infiltrated the registrant’s account with Fabulous.com. The very valuable domain became an easy target, as the WHOIS information was public. Its registrant was notified ...
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October 18, 2019 DomainGang
Discrimination.com, Domain Crime, Domain theft, Fabulous.com, Mike Robertson
Escrow.com has stopped dead in its tracks a transaction involving the domain RF.net. The premium two letter .net domain has been reported stolen, and the thief attempted to impersonate the domain’s real owner, who has been notified. According to ...
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September 10, 2019 DomainGang
Domain Crime, Domain theft, Escrow.com, RF.net, RF.net stolen, stolen domain
An alleged “white hacker” took over the domain name of Binance Jersey, a cryptocurrency exchange platform trading in Euro and British Pound. The company’s domain, Binance.je, is operating under the Jersey ccTLD. Apparently, the hacker...
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August 19, 2019 DomainGang
Binance Jersey, Binance.je, Domain Crime, dot .JE, Jersey, Jersey domains, white hackers
Domain crime is the unlawful acquisition of domains via the direct theft or hijacking of registrant accounts managing domain names. A new thread at DNForum is reporting the theft of these ultra-premium numeric domain names: 72.com 030.com 191.com 223.c...
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July 27, 2019 DomainGang
030.com, 191.com, 223.com, 282.com, 4589.com, 6910.com, 72.com, 8028.com, 8256.com, Domain Crime, Domain theft, stolen domains
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