Is it possible for others to somehow steal ownership of your domain name? And what about when it comes time to renew? Is it some kind of 1st come 1st served fight to the death, a bidding war, or does the current domain name owner get first crack at renewal? Mrs. Sinner
If you currently have the domain name registered in your name then you can easily register it without any competition; just go to your account on whatever registrar you use and renew it for as long as you want.
It's been done and being tried every other day, just like someone tries to take another person's car, house, whatever. That's one of those unavoidable risks, but one can still protect their assets from being stolen.
What are you talking about? get some proof from internet articles, before you write a comment like this, Ms. Sinner, domain names cannot be stolen by others, Unless someone found out your password, which is highly unlikely, I recommend 3 days before expiration, that you press the ReNew button, make sure you are with a trustworthy company or a very well known domain company. that is all you need to know.
Stealing i spossible through only hack your username and password or the bad registrar sometime doing. I saw somebody posted few days before that the reseller stoled his domain from him
Stealing domain names is happening and does happen. Hackers have ways of inserting filters into gmail accounts that will automatically forward certain emails to one of their email accounts and then delete the email that was forwarded. They've used this with a lot of GoDaddy accounts. There is nothing wrong with GoDaddy, it's just that hackers decided to use their account reset procedures to steal domains. So the hackers insert gmail filters, use the email address to send a password reset request which indirectly sends the email to the hacker, then the hacker moves the domain to a different registrar thereby completing the domain theft. I have further proof if you need it.
GoDaddy has a free 'locking' feature that makes them more secure. If its a domain you care a lot about I would also recommend renewing it for 2-5 years in advance instead of waiting for it to be near expiry. My main website domains are registered until 2012.
Are you able to disable Gmail filters on your email account so that this doesn't happen? don't they need to have access to your email address, to be able to set the filters though? It would be very scary if they can forward your emails without having access to it.
Once you domain name has expired your hosting company will give you the benefit of Doubt and give you a lea-way period of generally 10-20 days. Your domain will show no-available to other people interested in your domain name but after this period is over and if you haven't Registered the Domain name The its Available to the general public for Purchase.
Here you go, sunshine: http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=tl&q=domain+hijack&meta= And look up the MakeUseOf.com and DavidAirey.com hijacking cases. So you need any more so-called "proof", hmm? Think before you post. And if you read my comment closely, I also included it is possible to protect one's assets as well. What another member posted here is one way. There's a few other ways, but obviously I won't say how, especially since I've dealt with a few cases in my past registrar life.
just make sure that the contact email for the domain name is up to date and you use secure passwords. This is where anti virus software and smart browsing habits are useful. try not to get a virus/trojan/keylogger etc Do you have a reason to think that someone would try to steal your domain?
I usually renew them 3 months earlier on my first notice from GoDaddy. Once you are the owner, you have the priority to renew and nobody else, so once you grab it, no fear!
I heard one of case where they did hijacked email account of domain owner (via whois information), then reset domain manager password via that hijacked email. Sometimes it quite scary nowadays how creative the scammers are....
yeah, your email account is very valuable information. guard it wisely. you'd be surprised at the info people gather online about you. this can help them crack answer to secret questions and reset pw's. i think i might change my passwords after all this talk.
Domain name hijackers are called "crackers" - there is quite a buzz about it just recently. Seems it's very rare but does happen and registrars won't do much to help you unless you have a large and vocal audience to put pressure on them. If your domain gets stolen you are more or less out of luck.
I dont quite agree to it..you can get your domain name back..but it all depends upon how much you are willing to spend on it..for e.g. you can approach an arbitration forum by paying their fees..or contact the registrar or ICANN..however, you always need to ensure that your domain whois shows the right owner information..locking the domain name also helps..