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How does a hacker steal a website? So many questions.

silisili 7mo ago
You steal the domain name, not the website so to speak. Which would mean someone got their registrar credentials most likely.
- TurdF3rguson 7mo ago
  And transferred it away? Registrars make it really hard to do that if you're not the actual person. I'm finding it hard to believe someone can do this anonymously.
  - iwontberude 7mo ago
    Yeah that’s because it’s not what happened. It’s a common expiration snipe.
    - TurdF3rguson 7mo ago
      That's neither hacking nor stealing
      - coldtea 7mo ago
        Legally and technically no, but it borders on both...
        TurdF3rguson 7mo ago
        No it doesn't. If you were careless and let your domain expire, anyone can register it. There is no legal gray area here. If you otherwise have a copyright claim to the name that's a separate issue.
    - rezonant 7mo ago
      Except the domain did not expire, if you check WHOIS.
      - iwontberude 7mo ago
        Oh my bad. Top comment when I had said this was a claim that it was expiration related. Sorry for piling on to the claim.
RevEng 7mo ago
Registration expires, someone snaps it up immediately. It happened to a customer of mine with a domain that was their name. It pointed at a page saying it was available for sale for $4000.
- gitaarik 7mo ago
  Don't domain registars auto-renew domains for you?
  - shagie 7mo ago
    If your credit card is current. One of the "oh, this gets into trouble" is when you do a 10 year registration paid in advance and the credit card on file expires before the auto-renewal time. The registrar will poke you, and put up warnings when you log into the server to check on your account that your auto renewal is coming up soon and the card on file has expired. But if you're not paying attention to your domain registrations, or the renewal reminder emails get sent to the spam folder, or you've lost access to the original email address that you had to register it a decade ago, then godaddy is quite happy to put up a lander page with some inflated price on it and sell it to someone else.
sleight42 7mo ago
I mean... anything is possible at zombocom

You steal the domain name, not the website so to speak. Which would mean someone got their registrar credentials most likely.

TurdF3rguson 7mo ago
And transferred it away? Registrars make it really hard to do that if you're not the actual person. I'm finding it hard to believe someone can do this anonymously.
- iwontberude 7mo ago
  Yeah that’s because it’s not what happened. It’s a common expiration snipe.
  - TurdF3rguson 7mo ago
    That's neither hacking nor stealing
    - coldtea 7mo ago
      Legally and technically no, but it borders on both...
      - TurdF3rguson 7mo ago
        No it doesn't. If you were careless and let your domain expire, anyone can register it. There is no legal gray area here. If you otherwise have a copyright claim to the name that's a separate issue.
  - rezonant 7mo ago
    Except the domain did not expire, if you check WHOIS.
    - iwontberude 7mo ago
      Oh my bad. Top comment when I had said this was a claim that it was expiration related. Sorry for piling on to the claim.

RevEng 7mo ago

Registration expires, someone snaps it up immediately. It happened to a customer of mine with a domain that was their name. It pointed at a page saying it was available for sale for $4000.

gitaarik 7mo ago
Don't domain registars auto-renew domains for you?
- shagie 7mo ago
  If your credit card is current. One of the "oh, this gets into trouble" is when you do a 10 year registration paid in advance and the credit card on file expires before the auto-renewal time. The registrar will poke you, and put up warnings when you log into the server to check on your account that your auto renewal is coming up soon and the card on file has expired. But if you're not paying attention to your domain registrations, or the renewal reminder emails get sent to the spam folder, or you've lost access to the original email address that you had to register it a decade ago, then godaddy is quite happy to put up a lander page with some inflated price on it and sell it to someone else.

sleight42 7mo ago

I mean... anything is possible at zombocom