According to a press release we just received by KSregistry GmbH, which is owned by Key-Systems GmbH, “a third party has executed a transfer of the domain name adamsnames.net and now operates a shadow registry under this domain”.
Adams Names is the Registry for the ccTLD’s of .TC, .GD and .VG and uses KSregistry as its back end to operate the registries.
“According to the CEO of AdamsNames Ltd., Mr. Carsten Pauli, this transfer was not authorized by the registry operator”.
“KSregistry GmbH still provides the technical back-end services for the ccTLDs .TC, .GD and .VG authorized by AdamsNames Ltd., but this is currently hampered by the actions of the third party”.
“In order to not endanger the integrity of the zone after addressing the issues, the Key-Systems GmbH as registrar has decided to not permit current modifications to domain names under .TC, .GD and .VG.”
“The resolution and renewal of the domains are not affected.”
TheDomains.com received reports earlier today that some registrants were having a problem with modifying their domain names under these ccTLD’s and this explains what the issue is.
So is the site up at adamsnames.net right now the real one or the hacked one?
There is a very confusing “urgent alert” message on the site now that gives contradicting information, the whois record shows a party in Instanbul Turkey.
Can you post the press release (or shoot me a copy via email?)
thx.
Oh wait, I see, adamsnames.tc (the real one) is currently redirecting to adamsnames.net, which is a fake site.
AdamsNames Announcement
Dear Internet Community,
We are very sorry to have to write to you in such a situation. We are currently experiencing a high level Corporate hijack from the minority shareholder Carsten Pauli and Key Systems GmbH.
As you are all aware AdamsNames Ltd has been run by us for a while. Key Systems is our former Registry Backend provider. We recently noticed, the adamsnames.com domain, for which Key Systems was the Registrar had been illegally transferred into another account without any notice or authorisation from us. Upon realising this we transferred our other gTLD domains to another Registrar. Due to this matter we lost trust in Key Systems GmbH and decided to run it ourselves. Please be aware that our Registry is fully operational. All domains can be registered, renewed and updated as usual. We could not trust a company with three ccTLD’s if we could not trust them with one domain!
AdamsNames Ltd can be reached through the following sites. Please do not trust any other sites:
http://www.adamsnames.co.uk
http://www.adamsnames.net
http://www.adamsnames.eu
http://www.adamsnames.org
We would also like to point out that our IP addresses remain the same as from August 2012 and have not changed.
If you have any questions please E-Mail website@adamsnames.co.uk
We thank you for your patience and understanding, we hope for a speedy resolution to the situation.
Kind Regards,
Dear All,
Our domain name of our website Adamsnames.com hijacked by Key-Systems GmbH. AdamsNames website is in Turkey since August 2012 and have not changed.
Please read the full story:
http://adamsnames.net/w/announcements.php?id=40&language=english
To clarify: The domain name Adamsnames.com has not been “stolen” from Mr. Ulutas, it has been transferred from one customer account to another at the request of the legal representive of the registrant. Owner of the domain name according to the whois at the time of the transfer and prior to that time was not Mr. Ulutas, but Adamsnames Ltd.
When the director of the company requested that the domain name be transferred to his account because of Adamsnames Ltd. having lost their confidence in Mr. Ulutas to act in their interest, Key-Systems verified the authority of the director and then proceeded to push control of the domain name to the legal representative of the registrant. That was the whole extent of the involvement of Key-Systems in the dispute at the time.
Subsequently, Mr. Ulutas, who had been tasked with the management of the registry system by Adamsnames Ltd proceeded to hijack the TLDs and making wild claims.