Overnight I received a notice that several domain names I owned were transferred by a sealed court from Verisign without notice and of course without the court order.

The domain names just were transferred by Verisign to another domain and are now listed for sale at another marketplace.

Another domainer sent me an identical notice he received overnight on domain names he owned.

The Domain names are now all owned by COURT APPOINTED RECEIVER – ROBERT OLEA and have been moved to Uniregisty as the registrar and are now listed for sale at domainnamesales.com

The domain names resolve and the go to a domainnamesales.com page.

According to DomainTools.com, there are now 4,973 domain names associated with the registrant COURT APPOINTED RECEIVER, ROBERT OLEA.

I have send emails out to Verisign, Bob Olea and Mr. Steele who is a partner is a law firm as well as a teacher at a law school who I was instructed to contact at the bottom of the email I received.

I haven’t received any response back so far from anyone.

Here is the notice I got on one of the domains:

“Please be advised that Verisign has changed the registrar of record for certain domain names pursuant to a ***SEALED*** court order.

The domain names identified below were affected by this action.

Alexander the Great, LLC

—————————————————————————–

RETRACTIT.COM

If you have any questions relating to these actions, please contact:

David J. Steele

Partner, Christie, Parker & Hale LLP

Adj. Professor of Law, Loyola School

18101 Von Karman Ave, Suite 1950

Irvine, CA 92612-0163

office: +1 (949) 476-0757

direct: +1 (949) 823-3232

fax: +1 (949) 476-8640

email: david.steele@cph.com

Thank you very much,

The Verisign Transfer Dispute Team””

transfers@verisign-grs.com

Here is the whois record as of today:

Domain Name: RETRACTIT.COM

Registry Domain ID: 1872128460_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN

Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.uniregistrar.net

Registrar URL: http://uniregistry.com

Updated Date: 2014-10-01-T15:47:02Z

Creation Date: 2014-08-21-T18:30:14Z

Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-08-21-T18:30:14Z

Registrar: UNIREGISTRAR CORP

Registrar IANA ID: 1659

Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@uniregistry.com

Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.9494785380

Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited

Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited

Registry Registrant ID: UNIREGUVR6JSXRS

Registrant Name: COURT APPOINTED RECEIVER – ROBERT OLEA

Registrant Organization:

Registrant Street: P.O. BOX 935

Registrant City: DANA POINT

Registrant State/Province: CA

Registrant Postal Code: 92629

Registrant Country: US

Registrant Phone: +1.9498422143

Registrant Phone Ext:

Registrant Fax:

Registrant Fax Ext:

Registrant Email: BOB@DOMAINSALESPLUS.COM

Registry Admin ID: UNIREGUVR6JSXRS

Admin Name: COURT APPOINTED RECEIVER – ROBERT OLEA

Admin Organization:

Admin Street: P.O. BOX 935

Admin City: DANA POINT

Admin State/Province: CA

Admin Postal Code: 92629

Admin Country: US

Admin Phone: +1.9498422143

Admin Phone Ext:

Admin Fax:

Admin Fax Ext:

Admin Email: BOB@DOMAINSALESPLUS.COM

Registry Tech ID: UNIREGUVR6JSXRS

Tech Name: COURT APPOINTED RECEIVER – ROBERT OLEA

Tech Organization:

Tech Street: P.O. BOX 935

Tech City: DANA POINT

Tech State/Province: CA

Tech Postal Code: 92629

Tech Country: US

Tech Phone: +1.9498422143

Tech Phone Ext:

Tech Fax:

Tech Fax Ext:

Tech Email: BOB@DOMAINSALESPLUS.COM

Name Server: buy.internettraffic.com

Name Server: sell.internettraffic.com

DNSSEC: unsigned

Here is the whois record yesterday before the domain was seized by Verisign and given away to someone else:

Domain Name: retractit.com Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.pheenix.com Registrar URL: http://www.alexanderthegreat-888.com Updated Date: 2014-08-21 Creation Date: 2014-08-21 Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-08-21 Registrar: Alexander the Great, LLC Registrar IANA ID: 1702 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@pheenix.com Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.562.222.8886 Registrant Name: Domain Administrator Registrant Organization: Worldwide Media, Inc. Registrant Address: 265 S. Federal Highway Registrant City: Deerfield Beach Registrant State: FL Registrant Postal Code: 33441-4146 Registrant Country: United States Registrant Phone: 9543046227 Registrant Email: info@mostwanteddomains.com Admin Name: Domain Administrator Admin Organization: Worldwide Media, Inc. Admin Address: 265 S. Federal Highway Admin City: Deerfield Beach Admin State: FL Admin Postal Code: 33441-4146 Admin Country: United States Admin Phone: 9543046227 Admin Email: info@mostwanteddomains.com Tech Name: Domain Administrator Tech Organization: Worldwide Media, Inc. Tech Address: 265 S. Federal Highway Tech City: Deerfield Beach Tech State: FL Tech Postal Code: 33441-4146 Tech Country: United States Tech Phone: 9543046227 Tech Email: info@mostwanteddomains.com Nameserver: buy.internettraffic.com Nameserver: sell.internettraffic.com

If you have had domains taken away from you let me know.

I’m going to be following up on this to see under what rights domain names can be seized by innocent buyers in due course without notice to owner only to be put up for sale by another domainer.

Obviously very troubling.