Hello,
This domain transfer was approved by the Admin contact listed at NSI the same
way all other transfers are done. Which leaves 3 possibilities:
- The real domain owner approved it without realising what they were doing.
- The Admin Email was changed at NSI and then transfered.
- The Admin Email account was accessed by someone other than the owner to grab
the password.
In any event, this is a compliance issue. Please have the owner contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll investigate.
Hope this helps
On Sun, 31 May 2037, Loren Stocker wrote: > 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 vanished this morning and had been replaced by a mirror of American cuckoos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. �
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