I have had some experience with hijackings from registrars, or at least I have some clients who have had that experience. <br><br>These clients had someone create a website and register a domain name for them. The person registered the name with
<a href="http://enom.com">enom.com</a>. Everything was fine for a while, but the person who setup the website and registered the name went to graduate school, got married, started a business, and more or less forgot about the dns name. The long story made short is the domain registration lapsed.
<a href="http://enom.com">enom.com</a> has it in what is known as 'extended redemption'. The original registrants contact information is on the DNS record, but enom:<br>1) Apparently blocks his attempts to transfer the domain.
<br>2) Has had a 'squatting' site at that specific name for about 6 months.<br>3) Will not the domain name be reregistered.<br><br>I am pointing this out for two reasons. First, enom is evil. We (myself and the rightful owners) offered them cash, more than was "owed" on the original registrants account, just to have it transferred away, but they couldn't be bothered. This is not an isolated incident, a search of the internet will turn up many other sad stories like this one. Second, I feared this, or something similar, might have happened to
<a href="http://wplug.org">wplug.org</a>. I've found it is usually more effective to act quickly than to wait a while before trying to get things straightened out.<br><br>So, in short, I'm glad that things are fine. Thanks Beth!
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Beth Lynn</b> <<a href="mailto:bethlynn@wplug.org">bethlynn@wplug.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OK folks here is what is going on.<br><br>There was an outage of most of wplug's IT resources yesterday<br><br>This includes:<br>All mailing lists<br>The website, <a href="http://www.wplug.org">www.wplug.org</a> and <a href="http://erie.wplug.org">
erie.wplug.org</a><br>The wiki, <a href="http://wplug.ece.cmu.edu">wplug.ece.cmu.edu</a><br>email service for the @<a href="http://wplug.org">wplug.org</a> domain<br><br>Not effected:<br>The irc channel #wplug on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">
irc.freenode.net</a><br>The docs mirror <a href="http://ldp.wplug.org">ldp.wplug.org</a><br><br>In response to this outage, I decided that we need to switch to another<br>DNS provider ASAP. In my haste, made a mistake when migrating the DNS to
<br><a href="http://joker.com">joker.com</a>. I failed to save the name records therefore some users this<br>morning saw a generic site from <a href="http://joker.com">joker.com</a> and not our website. I<br>apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
<br><br>To be perfectly clear, <a href="http://wplug.org">wplug.org</a> is not now or has it ever been<br>"hijacked." The ip address of <a href="http://www.wplug.org">www.wplug.org</a> is <a href="http://128.2.194.8">
128.2.194.8</a> as it has been<br>for years. <a href="http://Joker.com">Joker.com</a> has been our domain registrar for several years as<br>well. The only thing that has changed since Thursday is that the DNS<br>servers for
<a href="http://wplug.org">wplug.org</a> are now with <a href="http://joker.com">joker.com</a>.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Beth Lynn Eicher<br>_______________________________________________<br>wplug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:wplug@wplug.org">
wplug@wplug.org</a><br><a href="http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug">http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug</a><br></blockquote></div><br>