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Old Webhosting Providers Who Hijack DNS?
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?"
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?
I completely agree. If you are no longer with this company, get a new DNS host or PAY them.
Having said that, I've hijacked a few myself. Clients that decided not to pay any more or screwed me over some other way. Hell, I had one a few weeks ago that was just waiting for their registration to lapse so that they could buy it back (and had some broker providing for this)...they owed me a few grand for the work I did, and decided that it wasn't good enough (even though they hired someone to take the graphics I did and translate them to their print stationary and banners)...Fuck it...I reregistered the domain myself under one of those cheap $7 a year registrars and have it pointing at one of their competitors sites. If they want to bring in a lawyer, I'll give it over, but until I get a summons, it ain't moving unless I get paid (which would be FAR cheaper than finding a lawyer willing to do this).
So, back to the point...make sure that your old web provider was paid up, make sure they realize there are no problems between you and then and get the crap moved to your own site. I just took a look at that everydns the parent response mentioned, and this would be cool to use (and I'd consider something like this for the few domains that I have that I don't have on Register.com which has their own DNS server so I could finally get rid of my crappy little unstable DNS box I'm using now...don't even have a back up anymore).
clif