Tinara

We have a very close friend in the UK who's been a webmaster for about 14 years. I've been a webmistress for even longer. He claims that his domain was stolen by a White Label Solution provider.

I'm curious if any of you have any horror stories re: your experiences with White Label sponsors. For example, I personally have had many white labels in the past, when the concept was first started, where the 'handing over' simply involved a CNAME and Arecord. In fact, we've got one going right now that we're really excited about.

But some sponsors require an entire takeover of your registrar records all the way down to registrant (and 'admin' record itself, where anyone can call the company and access the main password btw. [netsol, name.com, etc.]). In fact, this was what our friend in the UK had done. And I suspect this is what happened to him.

And he blames them for waking up one day, and *poof - his site is now gone - TRANSFERRED away. He cannot afford an attorney, and the company in question is too big for him to fight.

As we all know, registrar records are holy grail when it comes to ownership of sites.

I'm wondering if anyone can share some horror stories/experiences with situations like this. In my past experience, sponsors who just require the cname/arecord is the standard protocol for me in the past, but more and more, I'm seeing the entire takeover of information to certain sponsor programs occur and be demanded. I myself will not go this far, but our good friend Mr. UK Mark apparently did.

Any feedback or experience(s) is appreciated.

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