Comments on: Yahoo! Private Domain Debacle Part II: Can’t Keep a Secret

By: mitch

mitch — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:07:46 +0000

My Y! domain has been hijacked by Y!. I had a web site through Y! web hosting myself…One day I was making a comment on a Y! News article, someone within Y!’s comment police effectively deleted my account, locking me out of transferring my registrar. I am still being billed monthly for the domain and I cannot do a damn thing about it… what the heck can I do?!!
It amounts to fraud, extortion, kidnapping my domain and ripping me off.
I call for a big law firm to step up and set presidents by forming a national and international class action law suit hell bent on destroying Y! and Melbourne IT, or to correct their blatant disregard to the law…

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By: Alex Selkirk

Alex Selkirk — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:45:42 +0000

Hi Satya – You are welcome. Let us know if you get a helpful reply from MelbourneIT. -Alex

By: Satya

Satya — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:41:04 +0000

Thank you! I just ran into this issue. I sent MelbourneIT a message saying that I no longer own the domain, they should remove my contact information immediately.

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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:47:00 +0000

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By: NewGuy

NewGuy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:05:55 +0000

The below is my post today to Alex’s first rant, posted here to reach more people:

I just read all this brew-ha-ha today, back into 2007, and later I will scurry over and see if I have any of the same problems. Likely I will.
What I want to know from y’all, and especially Alex Selkirk (much raucous applause for your good work getting your letter all over the web!) is this:

Has anyone begun trying to bust Yahoo! legally for this, and how is it going? This is sounds like huge fraud to me. *Someone* should take this on.

By: TigerKen

TigerKen — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:35:30 +0000

Well, that’s “unfortunate” to put it lightly!

By: Alex Selkirk

Alex Selkirk — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:41:14 +0000

Thanks for your comment Ken! However, yes, unfortunately, a public WHOIS query on the domain does show the “private” information.

By: TigerKen

TigerKen — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:18:16 +0000

Actually, this *may* be OK. Each registrar is required to notify you annually to remind you of the personal information that you have associated with your domain name, so that you can correct any problems.

I work for a web hosting company, and we send these notices out to people. However, if the user has our WHOIS domain privacy feature enabled, then we still present the generic contact information for any WHOIS queries. We try to make it clear in our annual notifications to users that even though we still have their personal info on file, that’s only for our internal use, and any public WHOIS queries will still be protected by our domain privacy feature.

Does Melbourne IT show your public information if you do a WHOIS lookup on your domain name?