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I was searching for information on a search engine page called:- Intelisearch and came across this forum with an old thread which I was unable to post to:- Intelisearch any idea who they
might be? Picking every domain with decent pagerank
The reason I was looking for this information is that they have taken one of my domain names, which I am desperate to get back. I did not cancel the domain name, just asked to transfer to another hosting service and for the last 7 months have been trying to find out how this happened, after being sent all round the houses with my previous host, who moved their support to someone else, who did not have control of my domains ect, this has gone on and on, and now I notice that Intelisearch is using my domain. How can this happen? If I do a look up on my domain, the page information is not in my name and says it is not transferable, although I paid the money to register. Is there some kind of governing body who looks after the way host and ISP's operate? I have emails that show everything that has happened and feel none of this is my fault, and just want my domain back.
Regards
You mean this [webmasterworld.com] thread? It sounds like domain name hijacking. A search [google.com] on this site might give you some more advice.
First of all, you need to collect more information.
Check the whois database to see if you are still registered as the owner. To do so, you could go to www.alltheweb.com and search for the domain name (like www.mydomain.com) and click on the 'who owns' link.
You might read there also where the site is now hosted. If not, use trace route. Go to MS-DOS mode (if you are on a windows PC) and type
tracert www.mydomain.com
(replace mydomain by the real domain). This will give a list of all connections between your PC (at the top of the list) to the server (at the bottom). The lines just above the bottom tell you where the site is now hosted and can also give you an indication in what country it is hosted.
Your profile doesn't tell if you are in America. You also didn't write in what country your site was registered.
If I do a whois, I am no longer the registrar, and can't work out how this has happened..
If I do a whois, I am no longer the registrar, and can't work out how this has happened..
