Godaddy - Too Cheap To Care

[namestrands]

Recently I got a request from Godaddy that a domain transfer had been initiated. Thing is I never authorised a transfer of one of my domains from enom.

So I emailed Godaddy to tell them that the domain transfer was unauthorised, they came back 2 days later and tell me that they can do nothing about it and that I should ensure that the domain is locked at Enom so the transfer does not go ahead. Ironic.. they shut down and disable people for spamming or similar, yet they ignore Domain Hijackers..

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Unbelievable. Seems to be a lot of this going on lately. I'm off to Enom now to lock mine all down.

 

[namestrands]

First thing I done was a Global Update.. Lock'em DOWN..

 

[Edder]

Has this only happened between Enom and Godaddy to you, namestrands?

 

[katherine]

The sad thing is that even having a LOCK on a domain seems not to be enough to ensure 100% protection against name hijacking...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/17/panix_domain_hijack/

Anyway... always set the registrar-lock by default.

 

[manueld64]

anyone can buy a transfer, just make sure the domain is locked and the admin contact email is yours alone and whoever did it might have wasted some money

 

[fab]

Locking down does almost nothing. Within 5 minutes the domains are unlocked. If he broke into the account he would probably change the e-mail account as well.

 

[DNWizardX9]

Also don't use RegisterFly. I once emailed registerfly saying i lost my password and didn't have access to my old address. I didn't even give any of my personal information and they forwarded me all my details! I'm lucky it was me!

 

[katherine]

oooooops :worried: :-O

 

[DNabc]

That's unbeliavable. I can't understand how can a company give details like that...

 

[SuperBrandables]

All of these Registrars are too big to care (or too small to handle it).

I have two instances where I have registred domains at GD, paid, checked out , etc, then they sent me an email a few days later that there was an error in the registration and my money would be refunded. The latest incident happened with a real good domain name: jobinator.com.

Now it shows up with private registration, interesting!!! :huh: They claim it was registered by "them: whomever "them" are - much sooner than I did.

Do you think that there might be something fishy going on?

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