In a nutshell, www.portfoliocomms.com was moved to Tucows without the owners
consent or knowledge. It has also gone through a change of Registrant as well.
Tucows whois says:
Created date: 27-Apr-1998
Moved to Tucows: 24-Apr-2001
The suggestion that this domain was acqired without consent is "certainly
suspicious." I don't know the facts, but this doesn't look like a domain
deleted for non-payment. The new "owner" is welcome to clear this matter up!
Does anyone know how domains get Hijacked? How do bad guys defeat the
safegurads?.. How best to prevent this?
This could happen to anyone of us.
Loren
PS: Story follows if anyone is interested.
PR company loses Web site. Completely
By: Kieren McCarthy
Posted: 23/04/2001 at 16:13 GMT
PR company Portfolio Metrica Group was very surprised to find its Web site had
vanished this morning and had been replaced by a mirror of American cuckoos
Free2Try.com.
The site, www.portfoliocomms.com, has been owned for years by the company, was
not up for immediate renewal and is hardly a catchy title. A company spokesman
was confused to say the least and informed us that the legal beagles had been
set loose.
He was keen not to accuse the apparent new owner of fraud but admitted that
the sudden shift was "certainly suspicious". The current theory runs that the
registrar which the company initially went through has either gone bust or
been bought by someone else. However, the lawyers have warned of a
spaghetti-type whirl of confusion over which company actually owns which at
the moment.
The fact that Free2Try.com didn't bother to contact the company is a little
peculiar however. "This is the sort of thing you read about, but you never
expect to turn up one morning and find it's happened to you," the spokesman
told us.
Meanwhile, the registered owner of the site, one M. Duane from Wisconsin is
not answering her phone but does have a very nice voice.
Portfolio Metrica has swifty diverted all its customers to back-up URL
www.portmet.co.uk, but they are having to rebuild the site as we speak. �
