Hello....My name is Dennis and as you can see by my sign up date, I am a new guy. I really stumbled into this forum by accident while running a google on some of my domains. (Y69.com, ZT0.com, H5F.com, YYRN.COM, XPPH.COM). These domains should look familar to some of you in this thread it looks like a lot of misinformation was spread, so I thought I would buy a subscription to your site and maybe shed light on what really happened. I hope I am not beating a dead horse here, since this all happened the middle of last year, but since one entry made it sound like I was a "Scammer" and not a victim, I figured I might try to straighten it out.
I still own the domains listed above and was the original owner when all this started. The domains were stolen from my Go Daddy account. I woke up one morning and while checking my email, I noticed a mail from Godaddy for "domain name changes", sometimes I don't check the emails since I buy and sell domains regularly, but I am glad I did that morning! The email stated the 5 domains listed above were pushed to another account. I almost fell to the floor! I quickly checked my domain account and sure enough they were gone...panic set in and the feeling of violation, anger and more panic. All my other 150 domains were still there, but those were hand picked for obvious reasons. I believe it was a sunday morning and I immediately called my rep. at Go daddy, who of course was not in do to the weekend. I explained to another rep there what had happened and they started the process of putting the domains on hold. The domains could not be transfered to another registrar for 60 days (thank goodness) due to the name change, so the domains were still in house at GoDaddy. I went online to whois to gather what information I could about the thief, who listed a address in China and I will leave the rest alone since it will only set this thread into a flaming mess. Within a day or two following whois, I seen the the person from Illinois now owned Y69.com. At that point I didn't know for sure who was a bad guy, or who was a victim like myself. I could not contact the guy from Illinois, since I risked compomising Go Daddys investigation and a chance that the paper trail would get longer and more people would be out hundreds of dollars.
It took 2-3 weeks for Go Daddy to finish the investigation, with me sending information back and forth with them to verify my ownership. After it was all sorted out the domains in question were returned to me. It was a helpless feeling and I did want to contact the thief when all was said and done, but thought it served no useful purpose. I have taken enough time here, but wanted you to know the truth...BTW, one added word of advice, not everyone involved in this thread back then was innocent, one matched the whois information on "day one".
