Someone asked this question on the post so I will answer it I run a registrar (but not name.com obv.). "Hypothetically, what would happen if some bad guys mana

Someone asked this question on the post so I will answer it I run a registrar (but not name.com obv.). "Hypothetically, what would happen if some bad guys managed to transfer domains? What recourse would there be: would it be dealt with by yourselves, or would the previous owners of the domains have to take legal action against whoever the domains were transfered to?" There is a procedure in place between registrars to cover situations like this. Of course this assumes that the person who has the name stolen knows it has happened and that the proper people are notified fairly quickly. There are many cases where people might not know a domain was stolen (extra domain pointing to another site for example or an unused name) so there is definitely a risk here. But assuming this was discovered right away by the person whos name was taken it could be reversed and transferred back to the losing registrar. Of course all this can be time consuming and there is no guarantee that the registrar that the name was transferred to would act quickly etc. YMMV.