MeyerFittings Posted May 20, 2015 Report Posted May 20, 2015 I received this email from Bois. I thought that i would pass it on. Good folks. I hope this doesn't cause them excessive grief.WARNING/AVERTISSEMENT ! Theft of our domain name/Vol de notre nom de domaine Dear customers, dear interlocutors, First of all, sorry for using this method of mass e-mailing but this was the only mean for us to contact all our interlocutors at the same time. I apologize to those who will receive this e-mail several times. These previous days, you might have tried to contact us by e-mail or to connect to our website, on « harmonie.net ». We are sorry to inform you that our domain name « harmonie.net » has been robbed a bit more than a week ago. As you shall already know, we have been using this domain name for more than 17 years. We were still legally owner of this name until July 2016. As a result our website « www.harmonie.net »; and our usual e-mail address are unreachable at the moment for an unknown period.Our website had been back on the web with the address : http://www.boisdharmonie.net/en/ that I would advise you to keep in your favourites since at the moment we have a very poor referencing on the search engines where you can still find us on our former domain name « harmonie.net ». It is now impossible to find us if you don't have the full new domain name. Please feel free to click at least once on this link to help us be found again. From now on, you can still reach us by phone at the following number: 00 33 475 626 281, but it's not always easy for us to pick the phone up, especially while we are in the middle of a making process. Nevertheless here is an alternative e-mail address which works well and that will enable you to contact us again and go on with our previous discussions: rafharmonie@free.fr I beg your pardon for this inconvenience, and hope that the situation will be back to normal in the shortest time. Please, don't hesitate to send your unfortunate requests to this e-mail address, and to circulate this message to your contacts in order to inform the largest number. Best regards,Raphaël Thirion, Manager
Julian Cossmann Cooke Posted May 21, 2015 Report Posted May 21, 2015 Raises the question as to how this kind of thing happens and whether the companies through which we reserve a domain have strategies in place to protect us. I think I'll quiz my domain provider...
Julian Cossmann Cooke Posted May 21, 2015 Report Posted May 21, 2015 OK, here is the exchange I had with my domain registrar: Julian Cossmann Cooke - What strategies does [name of registrar] have in place to thwart efforts to steal a domain name? Now on your [name of registrar] account I see you do have domain ownership protection for cossmannviolins.com, so the domain cannot be transferred away from [name of registrar] or manually canceled in your account while you have that in place. It also holds the domain name for 12 months after its expiration if the domain renewal does not go through for some reason. Julian Cossmann Cooke - What does ownership protection entail in terms of precluding transfer away from [name of registrar] by a hostile third party? I am hearing through colleagues that this happened to someone -- I don't know who their domain provider is -- and obviously it was a problem for their business. - Even if a transfer is authorized form another registrar, the transfer will fail when you have the ownership protection since the ownership protection specifically protects against transferring away from [name of registrar]. Julian Cossmann Cooke - The more I think about it, I am glad you're not laying out the technical aspects of this. No sense in advertising [name of registrar]'s defenses! But it would be reassuring to know how many times in [name of registrar]'s history those defenses have failed and an attempted theft succeeded. - I do not know of statistics of theft succeeding, but for domains without ownership protection, domain owners will want to keep domains locked to prevent transfer and do not share [name of registrar] account passwords so no one else has access to their [name of registrar] account since access to the [name of registrar] account is necessary to transfer a domain away from [name of registrar].
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