Domain name hijack?

Mon Jan 23 23:18:10 UTC 2006

Are they in .org? If so, I would call PIR. More generally, I would  
suggest you contact the registrar, not ICANN.

http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html

On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Wil Schultz wrote:

>
> Hey all, probably not the best place to ask this but thought that I  
> would give it a shot.
>
> At my company I manage 30 or so domain names through various  
> registrars, they existed before I came on board. Today I received  
> an email from a person claiming ownership of one of our valuable  
> ones, valuable to us anyway since we have an ASP product sitting  
> behind it. Whois database says that is clearly belongs to him and  
> the ICANN registrar is not one that is being used here, last  
> updated 6 months ago. If this would have been changed 6 months ago  
> I would have been the one to change it, and I didn't change anything.
>
> <snip>
>    Created on..............: 2001-May-20.
>    Expires on..............: 2010-May-20.
>    Record last updated on..: 2005-Jul-25 21:29:10.
> </snip>
>
> The domain is still pointing to our DNS servers, we haven't had any  
> outages to this point, looks like the admin and tech contacts were  
> the only thing changed, and now 6 months later they want the domain.
>
> I've got calls into the current registrar to see what is going on,  
> they were contacted at the same time I was and need some time to  
> see what's going on. Anyone have any advice? Should I call ICANN?  
> How can I find out what that change was on July 25th?