Neither of the registrars “acquired” or “offered” anything. They simply accepted transfers from some fraudulent registrant, and there’s absolutely no reason the

Neither of the registrars “acquired” or “offered” anything. They simply accepted transfers from some fraudulent registrant, and there’s absolutely no reason they shouldn’t allow transfers of domains “in active use”, popular or not. It’s just business as usual for them. The domain was eventually listed by the registrant on Afternic, a domain marketplace. Again, neither of the bounced-through registrars got anything to do with the listing and reselling.