{"id":1792,"date":"2011-07-26T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2011-07-26T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T21:10:00","slug":"recovering-stolen-domains-no-bigger-reward-than-a-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/recovering-stolen-domains-no-bigger-reward-than-a-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering stolen domains: no bigger reward than a Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Linton<\/strong><\/a> is a smart entrepreneur, whom I’ve met during TRAFFIC in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

His latest project, DomainTheft.org<\/strong><\/a>, leaves a lot to be desired; I’m about to unleash a serving of advice and “tough love” based on experience.<\/p>\n

For years, I’ve helped domainers (aka, resellers) and end-users alike<\/strong><\/a> recover numerous domain names. Such recoveries were successfully achieved only because the driving force was “to do the right thing”.<\/p>\n

There was never any money involved, no compensation for costs incurred or time rendered.<\/p>\n

When a domain is offered for sale, no artificial algorithm can somehow decide it has been stolen or even laundered several times over. To successfully determine that a domain has been hijacked, one needs to employ time and effort in a quest for the truth.<\/p>\n

I won’t lie: DomainTools<\/strong><\/a> helps tremendously, it’s the single most important tool one needs in order to check past history of domain ownership.<\/p>\n

And yet, even the most seemingly innocent domains can lay dormant in the hands of a thief, only to be offered for sale on every single domain platform available; often, after a quick laundering in ownership.<\/p>\n

No domain owner would be willing to offer monetary compensation “as seen fit” with regards to recovering a domain asset. When two letter or three letter dot com domains, generic domains or otherwise valuable domain assets vanish in the hands of a thief, it often takes months of playing hide and seek with digital “ghosts” that originate half across the world, often in China, India and Iran.<\/p>\n

Quite often, while in the process of reclaiming a stolen domain, one has to stop short of tagging it as such; there are reasons to follow a thief’s path quietly, as it often leads to a stash of other stolen domains.<\/p>\n

It’s the wrong call, in my opinion, to offer a centralized database that can become outdated, or contain false positives at any given time. In the same manner that investigators don’t publicize their research in the daily newspapers, the recovery of stolen domains is an art that cannot be automated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Linton is a smart entrepreneur, whom I’ve met during TRAFFIC in Las Vegas. His latest project, DomainTheft.org, leaves a lot to be desired; I’m about to unleash a serving of advice and “tough love” based on experience. For years, I’ve helped domainers (aka, resellers) and end-users alike recover numerous domain names. 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