Customer has 8 four letter .coms stolen, be alert

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John Berryhill alerted people of the following stolen 4L.coms.

The following names were stolen from a GoDaddy customer:

wumz.com
fexz.com
cclw.com
yded.com
clcy.com
kdtx.com
wohp.com
ubve.com

The names interactivebrain.com and cloneclothing.com appear also to have followed similar unauthorized transfer patterns.

The same person attempted a theft of qauf.com, but the intended victim caught the transfer email in time to stop it.

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

Comments

    • Ralph says

      Got to love how the seller says name reg’d since 2005, and berryhill twists it ask him if he has owned it since 2005, the guy has been at namepros for 11 years, with about 100 positive.

  2. Jamie says

    How is it that Godaddy hasn’t figured out a way to stop this? There should be text messages (even if the person claimed they lost their phone) alternative e-mail notifications, a waiting period, phone calls, secret passwords to answer, good old snail mail notifications, a telegram by a pigeon… something. I guess we have to do more than delete old credit card and Paypal accounts to protect ourselves. I prefer to receive a telegram by a pigeon at my house, but a waiting period would also work. Hope he catches the scoundrel.

    • John says

      Why not make the person carrying out the transfer enter (a) A pin number (b) The answer to a specific question
      or something that should be known only to the owner ?

  3. Commenter has posted under another name previously says

    Do we need an article every time a crappy domain gets stolen. Imagine if the newspapers published an article every time someone had their 1998 Honda Accord with 220,000 miles stolen.

    • Vito says

      I think it is a helpful service to report stolen domains.

      First off it could save any one of us from buying one of those stolen domains which would cause great grief/stress to buyer and of course original owner. Very similar to what James Booth just encountered.

      Secondly, it is always good to open discussion up about safety and security at different registrars and potential resolutions.

      Thanks John Berryhill and Raymond for the post.

      • Commenter has posted under another name previously says

        A LLL.com is much different then a crappy LLLL.com. Is a person going to check if WUMZ.com is stolen before buying it for $200-300? Otherwise someone should start a stolen domain database and charge a fee for someone to add their stolen domains to it and now there’s one central place for it all.

    • VR says

      Yeah it’s common sense because if someone ends up buying one of these, then they got a problem. Just ask James Booth on CQD.com.

      Those 4L aren’t crappy, probably better names than most of the anonymous trolls who post here.

  4. BullS says

    My 4 L domains got stolen too from this gal in China and I am still in contact with her. She stole my BullShitWebsites. com too and I told her go ahead and build the site . She later realized that I can traced her and have my people in her city on her.
    She later transferred the bullshitwebsites.com to me but she is trying to blackmail me by giving her my gxnx.com and and she will transfer the rest.
    She knows that she can’t sell the stolen domains and she is stuck paying the renewal fees.

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    ,
    克里斯
    **************************************************************
    JKEB.COM–stolen
    JUJG.COM–stolen
    SKQK.COM–stolen
    WHUJ.COM–stolen
    ZKWI.COM –stolen
    ZVKV.COM–stolen

  5. ben pedri says

    I dont get it ,when I myself transfer LLLL.com s away from godaddy ,they freeze the transaction ,and I have to jump through hoops ,but then a SCUMBAG comes along and godaddy gives them thier blessing,thats why I am transferring away a lot away from godaddy ,,,now when I sell a domain with namesilo its an easy push into the buyers account after I unlock it. The godaddy push is a pain in the butt not ,and a waste of a lot of time.

  6. Daniel Loudon says

    Crappy domains? Crappy enough to steal. Also, this is of concern to all domain owners especially those of us with domains with Go Daddy… talk about missing the point. Imagine if that Honda was your transportation! Wow.. thanks for posting! 🙂

  9. Mark White says

    I’m still looking for my Petro.co.ve
    It also was reg at Godaddy, please post if you find it, Thanks.

  10. Shane says

    I don’t understand how they are stolen. Doesn’t everyone use two step authorization at GoDaddy and have their domains locked?