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eNom
Issues Statement on Domains Stolen from Warren
Weitzman's Account and NameDrive Throws a
Roadblock in the Thief's Path
We
have several new developments to report
in the case of the domain names
stolen from industry pioneer Warren
Weitzman's eNom account that we made
public yesterday. First, eNom sent
us an official statement regarding this incident
in which they wrote:
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"The
eNom team is working diligently to
address the issue of the domains missing
from Warren Weitzman’s account. We
are working with the gaining registrars
and are confident Mr. Weitzman’s
domains will be recovered shortly.
eNom would like to stress that |
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this issue
is not related to the security within
our platform. This unfortunate
situation is related to Mr.
Weitzman’s account only.
eNom has invested heavily in its
security protocols and particularly
understands the concerns and needs of
domain name professionals. We
would like to assure our customers that
their domains are protected and their
account information confidential." |
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On
another front, NameDrive,
the parking company where the
thief has been trying to
monetize the stolen domains
announced this afternoon that
they have blocked the
perpetrator's access to
their account there. In a post
on his blog, NameDrive CEO Gregory
Manriquez wrote: |
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"It
has come to our attention that
several domains which were
hijacked from Warren Weitzman in
recent days have been pointed to
NameDrive’s nameservers at fastpark.net.
We have great sympathy for Mr.
Weitzman in this difficult time.
Our legal team are in contact
with him and we are doing all we
can to help resolve this
situation. We have blocked the
perpetrator’s access to his
NameDrive account and will
return all revenue made on the
domains to Mr. Weitzman as
long as the domains are pointed
to our servers as NameDrive do
not wish to profit from such
activity."
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One
other note on this case.
As we noted yesterday,
the WhoIs information on
the first domain stolen
from Weitzman's account,
Adios.com,
falsely shows 'John
Thalacker' as the
new registrant. The real
John Thalacker is a
veteran domainer whose
name the thief
appropriated while
filling out the bogus
WhoIs info at 000Domains
where the name was
transferred. Mr.
Thalacker has no
association with the
domains taken and
doesn't own a 000Domains
account. He is simply
another innocent
victim of the
criminal responsible for
these thefts.
We
look forward to being
able to tell you that
all of the stolen
domains have been
returned to Mr. Weitzman.
In the meantime, if you
have any information
that could help him or
the authorities in this
process, please contact Warren
at Warren.com. |
Warren
Weitzman |
In
other news today, DomainSuccess.com
is excited about lining up Mixergy
founder Andrew Warner for
their next live interview
session coming up tomorrow
night (Thursday, July 23) at 8pm
Eastern time. A preview on
DomainSuccess notes, "The
Mixergy Mission is to introduce
you to doers and thinkers whose
ideas and stories are so
powerful that just hearing them
will change you. You will be
motivated, uplifted and inspired
as Andrew shares not only his
own story, but those of the
achievers he’s interviewed
over the past years. Including
the founders of Jib Jab, Gary
Vaynerchuk (the Wine.tv
guy), Timothy Ferriss, Wikipedia
founder Jimmy Wales and
others." You can reserve
a free seat for the session here.
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SnapNames.com
completed the first in a
new monthly series of Showcase
Auctions Tuesday,
booking close to
$90,000 from 38
sales. The highest bid
went to DegreePrograms.com
at $31,555. You
can see the full
list of results here. |
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The
next sale in the series
gets underway August
11 and the deadline
to submit names is one
week from today, Wednesday,
July 29. You can
read the submission
criteria and other details
here. |
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