Parked domain being "hijackd"?!

[llegent]

Ok guys, I have this crazy thing happen to me last week. I remembered that one of my domain was paked at namedrive.com . And I lefted it unattended for about 2months time. Then one fine day I was just checking how's it went, how's the landing page like ...etc.

To my surprise, when I type in the url into my browser, I arrive at a landing page which was not the "usual" nor "familiar" page to me! It wasn't my "supposed to be" landing page! I checked back my domain registrar, yup the domain is still mine, registered under my name, and then I check my namedrive account. Pheeww, it is still there!

Fortunate enough for me, that I contacted the parking company to look into it, and try to solve it for me. Well, after which, my "domain" back to waht it supposed to be:o ! But I do not know how long it has been "not" my landing page! and thinking about the possible PPC revenue lossese...

So I am very PUZZLED!! How on earth this could happen ??:eek: I learn from somewhere that it is called "DNS" hijacking or something like that. Anyone has such bad experience before?

[vicki2]

Very interesting ...the same thing happened to me with a name I'd registered at godaddy ..took a bit of writing back and forth, but I reclaimed it. Perhaps, the hijackers just are preying on all of us who often buy names and don't do something with all of them.
Seems like a lot of work for about $8 tho lol.

[triumph]

I always thought namedrive.com was pretty respectable, so I would not suspect them right off, but it seems like it would have to be a hijack at the parking side of things or else just a glitch.

[llegent]

Nope, it is not the parking site that went wrong. In fact they helped to solved it. It was something to do with DNS hijacking which I don't really understand how it was done. I did some research and found out that it got to do with DNS redirection or sort of. I am still unsure how it was done.

But I think those hijackers are paying their attention and follow on those domains that are parked and then "abandoned" for some time, just like my case.

[tex89]

I'm kinda puzzled too on how this happened. Unless someone at namedrive.com did this or someone has your login info for your account. The place doesnt seem to be very secure if things like this happens.

[Plumley]

What were the hijackers getting out of it? The page they substituted for yours must have been generating income for them, in the same way yours was for you? I'm just curious about what the hijacker's page was like.

[triumph]

Interesting. Never heard of that. So with the redirect they would just send the traffic to their own site I guess?

[Paula62]

llegent,
do you know if the site actually had a different page attached to it, or did the traffic get redirected to a different landing site?

[shaunapple]

It could definitely happen. Happened to my friend.