You use a technique called "domain lock". This prevents the
domain from being transferred away from your current
registrar without you being aware of the transfer request,
as you must first request the domain lock be removed before
you can transfer the domain name to another registrar.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Loren Stocker
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How do we stop Hijackers (among us)?
>
>
> 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 vanished this morning and had been replaced by a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. �
>
>
>
>
