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Old Webhosting Providers Who Hijack DNS?

Posted by Cliff on from the solving-uplinker-antics dept.

linzeal asks: "Oneworld Hosting my old webhosting provider keeps hijacking my DNS records for my website Anarchists for Life and pointing it at another customer's website. I have talked to the owner of the IP block as well as my old web host a multitude of times to no avail. My new webhosting provider Trilucid has been very helpful and has even suggested legal action. Does anyone here have an idea on how to solve this problem short of that?"

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  1. How are they hijacking DNS records? by nbvb · · Score: 4, Informative

    How are they "hijacking" your DNS records?

    Who's your registrar?? How can they update the DNS records for _your_ domain? Are you listed as the zone/technical contact?

    If you gave them absolute control of the domain, then there's almost nothing you can do.

    If you are the contact for the domain, update it with your registrar and make sure they're _NOT_ listed as the tech. contact!

    Who's your DNS provider? Are they causing the problems?