New wave of cyber-theft involves names of Web sites
August 20th, 2008
“Officials at Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet in Boulder were shocked to discover recently that their Web site had disappeared off the face of the Internet.
“We had bought the domain name from NameSecure, which is kind of ironic,” said Jenifer Sher, the ballet company’s executive director. “I guess it must have expired, but we didn’t receive any renewal notices.”
To make matters worse, Sher couldn’t send or receive e-mails, because her address was tied to the Web site.”
Excellent article (although in this case it is not really theft) that shows how important a domainname can be, that you need to choose a trustworthy registrar and, most importantly, need to keep your contact details up to date!