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Domain name hijacked?

  • 25-02-2009 2:29pm
    #1
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭


    [edit]Changed title to make a bit more sense

    Not sure of the best thread title for this, but anyway:

    Renewed my domain name last Friday, a couple of days before it was due to expire (I know I left it late).

    Haven't renewed my hosting yet, partly because I'm not 100% sure I'm going with, but more because I haven't coded most of the backend yet and I'm considering moving from .Net to PHP, go might end up going the Linux route.

    My problem is that if I try to visit my site, I get some damn page with a load of pron links.

    www.who.is still shows it as registered to me with the admin and tech contacts as the company I registered it to.

    So what's going on? Surely I just just get a 'host not found' message?


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  • #2
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Where are the nameservers pointed?

    If it's to your old hosting company who you are no longer paying, they're probably just displaying some default 404 page.


  • #3
    mneylon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Sounds like the domain is "parked", so you're probably getting a default parking page. Simplest thing is to doublecheck with the provider to make sure that the domain was renewed etc.,

    You won't get a "host not found" if a domain isn't renewed - at least not immediately

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  • #4
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    Turns out it wasn't renewed for some reason, they're doing it now.

    Wouldn't mind if I was getting a 404 or a basic parking page, it's the fact that I'm being invited to watch someone's wife's hot friend etc. :mad: which isn't exactly the kind of content I want associated with the site.


  • #5
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    Sorry for the double post, but I just want to be sure on this: my domain name hadn't been renewed (it has now), so had expired about 2 days earlier. Are my hosting company the only ones who could have put up the page I was getting ?


  • #6
    mneylon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭mneylon


    MOH wrote: »
    Sorry for the double post, but I just want to be sure on this: my domain name hadn't been renewed (it has now), so had expired about 2 days earlier. Are my hosting company the only ones who could have put up the page I was getting ?

    No. The host might not be ICANN accredited, so the ICANN registrar would have been responsible for the parked page

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  • #7
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    blacknight wrote: »
    No. The host might not be ICANN accredited, so the ICANN registrar would have been responsible for the parked page

    OK, thanks.


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