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Wireless Company Files UDRP Over AEE.com After Losing Domain

Andrew Allemann — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:05:26 +0000

Wireless products company in China loses domain in suspicious circumstances; files UDRP to get it back.

Wireless company Shenzhen AEE Technology Co., Ltd has filed a UDRP for the domain name AEE.com.

But before you question this filing for a three letter domain name, there are some interesting circumstances surrounding this domain name. You can discover them with the help of DomainTools’ historical whois.

Shenzhen AEE Technology Co., Ltd owned the domain name until early July of this year. The domain name was registered at ~~Name.com~~ NameCheap.com and didn’t expire until 2015. Then on July 11 the domain was suddenly transferred to eNom and placed under whois proxy.

On October 21 the domain shifted to Dynadot. It was protected with a whois privacy service and showed Dennis Vink as the owner. The next day the named registrant using the privacy service changed to Alvaro Bernal.

[Update: I originally wrote that the domain was at Name.com. It was actually NameCheap, an eNom reseller. It then transferred to another eNom account (non-NameCheap) before being transferred to Dynadot.]

The web site now has new blog with the title: “AEE Alvaro’s Enchanting Experiences”.

Yep, this whole thing smells a bit fishy.

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VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public

Andrew Allemann — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:32:14 +0000

VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScore™ to the public.

The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets.

DomainScore uses NXD data — basically visit requests to non existent domain names — to calculate a score ranging from 1-10. The higher the score the higher the traffic to the domain. The score is for the last full week, the last 30 days, and last 60 days.

Based on my experience with similar data for pending delete domains, I think you’ll find the data most relevant for domains that haven’t just expired. This reduces the amount of dead link traffic included in the total and gives a better impression of type-in traffic.

VeriSign already offers this data to registrars, some of which in turn offer it to customers. Dynadot offers the data but with a day turnaround time. Some customers have apparently run millions of domains through Dynadot’s system. However, a number of large registrars have held this data close to their chest for their own use.

The public tool provides data instantly on up to 100 domain names.

VeriSign might need to put a CAPTCHA on it

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WikiLeaks Finally Figures Out How to Change Its DNS

Andrew Allemann — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:27:31 +0000

I thought these guys were tech savvy?

A couple weeks after WikiLeaks.org’s DNS services provider cut if off, someone within the organization finally figured out how to log into the registrar account and change the DNS.

Seriously, was this just a ploy to get more publicity? When EveryDNS cut of WikiLeaks, all the organization had to do was log in to its Dynadot account and change the nameservers to another DNS or hosting service. Instead the domain name sat there…not resolving.

Finally, it appears that someone logged into the DynaDot registrar account and changed the nameservers. They currently point to Dynadot’s own nameservers, which may be set up with URL forwarding. The organization has had access to the registrar account all along.

Visiting WikiLeaks.org right now forwards me to WikiLeaks.info. Perhaps these guys are slow learners. WikiLeaks.info is registered with Go Daddy, a domain name registrar located in the good ole’ U.S.A. But I guess another mirror site is just a URL forward away.

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DynaDot Facing Pressure on WikiLeaks.org Domain Name

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:15:41 +0000

U.S.-based registrar has taken no action against WikiLeaks.org domain name, but is facing pressure from both sides.

Amazon booted Wikileaks from its cloud hosting services. Everydns kicked out the site thanks to distributed denial of service attacks. But the domain name WikiLeaks.org remains in the hands of the underground organization as domain name registrar DynaDot has not taken any action on the domain.

Earlier today I reached out to DynaDot founder and president Todd Han. I asked him if his company had taken any action with regards to the domain name and if it was facing pressure to do so. Han responded:

Yes, wikileaks.org is still registered at Dynadot. As you can tell from the whois lookup, we have taken no action against the domain. And yes we are experiencing significant pressure regarding the domain, both to keep it up and to take it down.

Dynadot previously faced a court order to remove the name servers for the domain, but it was later reverse.

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WikiLeaks Domain Not Shut Down, Just DNS

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:54:44 +0000

Domain name not seized or shut down; DNS provider takes action.

A story on Guardian.co.uk screams “WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name”.

This headline is misleading and suggests that the WikiLeaks.org domain name has been shut down. This is incorrect. When you actually read the story, it says that Everydns took the site down. Everydns was only providing DNS services to Wikileaks. The WikiLeaks.org domain name is registered with Dynadot, which does not appear to have taken any action on the domain name. Really all WikiLeaks.org needs to do is change DNS providers.

Still, the domain name is at risk. Dynadot is a U.S. company and the .org registry is based in the U.S.

Wikileaks is shifting to several alternatives, including country code domain names.

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Wikileaks Could Put More Pressure on Whois Privacy Services

Andrew Allemann — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:23:01 +0000

Could WikiLeaks backlash bring renewed attention to whois privacy services?

The backlash against WikiLeaks over its release of thousands of secret U.S. government documents about the war in Afghanistan is building. It’s never pretty when your web site is blamed for death.

And although the public now knows who is behind WikiLeaks, I think the situation may place more attention on the use of whois privacy and proxy services.

WikiLeaks.org was registered in 2006 using domain registrar Dynadot’s privacy service. The actual details of the whois record for WikiLeaks.org has changed many times. But as of today this is what it shows:

Registrant Name:John Shipton c/o Dynadot Privacy
Registrant Street1:PO Box 701
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:San Mateo
Registrant State/Province:CA
Registrant Postal Code:94401
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.6505854708
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email: privacy@dynadot.com

As a privacy service, Dynadot privacy shows the real name of the registrant but not the contact information.

This lack of transparency is sure to grab the attention of politicians. It’s attention that privacy and proxy services would rather not have.

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Domain Security: Dynadot Offers Two-Factor Authentication

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:58:18 +0000

Dynadot secures domains with mobile phone security.

In April I wrote a few stories about domain name security tools offered by various registrars. One tool I missed was Dynadot’s SMS security tool.

It works like this:

Account holder receives a 6-digit code (sent via SMS) on his cellphone and then enters the code in his Dynadot account before he can do the following:

- Get a domain’s auth code
- Unlock his domains
- Change his account information

All 6-digit codes expire 1 hour after they have been sent. The account holder gets 3 tries to enter in the correct code. If he enters in the wrong code too many times, the system will automatically lock down the account.

Dynadot tells me they created this system in house.

As security concerns grow, more and more domain name registrars are offering security tools like this. And many of them are offering the tools for free. If your registrar isn’t offering similar free tools, you should start pushing them to do so.

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