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Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others

Posted by timothy on from the low-down-dirty-rotten dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Chris Coyer at css-tricks.com has had his domain transferred from GoDaddy.com to a registrar in Australia where it's being held for ransom. Several other domains have experienced the same theft by what seems to be the same person, and the registrars seem helpless to do anything about it."

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  1. Re:Gmail problem by Mashiki · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You know, we had a discussion just the other day about group-think and the /. condition where people making good comments are shouted down. The GP is yet another example of this.

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  2. Re:Gmail problem by Skidborg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And that one mod point I was saving for a post like this just expired.

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