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Could someone please explain this? What is going on? Either you hack a domain or you don’t—but once the owner finds out, shouldn’t they be able to verify that i
by linkmotif 8y ago
Could someone please explain this? What is going on? Either you hack a domain or you don’t—but once the owner finds out, shouldn’t they be able to verify that it’s locked down. How can someone steal a domain, permanently, and trade with it. Can this happen at any TLD or is .is just negligent/apathetic? Why would I ever buy a .is domain if the TLD lets people steal it? I don’t understand...
- StavrosK 8y agoI'm guessing the Icelandic registrar has some provision that you have to be a citizen to get a domain, and someone told the registrar that the owner is not, so they can get it canceled and then take it.
- KenanSulayman 8y agoYou don’t need to be a citizen of Iceland, but the address needs to be valid. The broker can’t see the address because ISNIC per default hides this information.
- testplzignore 8y agoSince the Twitter account has provided no useful details, I'm going to blindly speculate. My guess is that they are using a virtual business address service that is commonly used by spam/fraud organizations (e.g., fake pharmaceuticals), and maybe ISNIC is cracking down on this due to abuse. They don't want their TLD to be known as a junk TLD like .ck, .gq, .info, etc. Or someone is attempting to take legal action against the owner of the domain and ISNIC can't comply because they just have a fake address with no known physical entity.