I just read over at css-tricks.com that their GoDaddy hosted domain name was stolen along with several other GoDaddy domain names.
This a unnerving. I am posting the article here in the event their domain goes down:
Hey ya’ll. This is (really) Chris Coyier. I had css-tricks.com registered on
GoDaddy. It recently came to my attention that the ownership of this domain has been transferred away from my ownership to
PlanetDomain. For now, thankfully the nameservers still point to
MediaTemple, so the site is still up. That could change at any time.
I’m going to keep track of all this.
Timeline of Events
Friday 7:30am – I found out about all this from emails from David Appleyard. I immediately thought of David Walsh who this is also happening to. It’s also happening to
href="http://instantshift.com">instantshift.com and sohtanka.com. None of us share a GoDaddy hosting account. These are all separate instances. Important to note: I received no email or phone call verifying the transferring of this domain. The email address in my GoDaddy account was unchanged.
Friday 7:45am – Called GoDaddy support at (480) 505-8877. Was not helpful. Was told just to email domaindisputes@godaddy.com (which I did immediately).
Friday 8:06am – I tweeted about the problem. GoDaddy sent me a DM saying to fill out a form, but the form was a 404 page.
Friday 8:30am – I got the correct link to the domain disptute form and filled it out. This included a scan of my driver’s license. The website says it will be 3 days for an initial response. I hope it’s sooner than that.
FULL ARTICLE (if it’s still up): css-tricks.com ‘This Site’s Domain is Stolen’
