The headlined article tells you that that outright was the case, no "could" about it. A third party looked for felons.io using a compromised GoDaddy customer a

The headlined article tells you that that outright was the case, no "could" about it. A third party looked for felons.io using a compromised GoDaddy customer account, and proceeded to register it the same day. Clearly the person fraudulently using an account that wasn't xyr own is a malicious third party.