A UDRP has been filed on the grandfather of adult generic domain names, Porn.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
The company filing the complaint, MXN Limited bought the domain name back in 2007 for more than $9.5 Million dollars.
The domain name Porn.com was registered at Moniker.com for a many years until just a week ago or so when it was transferred to the Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER (.RU) under privacy.
We have not been able to confirm the nature of the UDRP and that its to recover a stolen domain but its the only thing that makes sense.
I know Moniker.com offers a Max Lock product on domain names, a second step authorization system meant to make it much harder to steal a domain but we have no idea of whether this domain was covered by the Max Lock or not but appears to be another huge black eye for Moniker.com a company that has seen more than its share of problems.
If this is a case of a stolen domain, its Certainly the most valuable domain since Sex.com to have be stolen, which led to years to lawsuits, but was taken under a completely different “paper” transfer system which existed years ago.
According to Alexa.org, Porn.com is the 854th most visited site on the Internet.
Here is the current whois record:
Domain Name: PORN.COM Registry Domain ID: 3279275_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.nic.ru Registrar URL: http://www.nic.ru Creation Date: 1995-08-19T04:00:00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-01-07T20:00:00Z Registrar: Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER Registrar IANA ID: 463 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected] Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +7.4959944601 Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Registry Registrant ID: Registrant Name: Privacy protection service - whoisproxy.ru Registrant Organization: Privacy protection service - whoisproxy.ru Registrant Street: PO box 99, whoisproxy.ru Registrant City: Moscow Registrant State/Province: Moscow Registrant Postal Code: 123308 Registrant Country: RU Registrant Phone: +7.4957856536 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant E-mail: [email protected] Admin Name: Privacy protection service - whoisproxy.ru Admin Organization: Privacy protection service - whoisproxy.ru Admin Street: PO box 99, whoisproxy.ru Admin City: Moscow Admin State/Province: Moscow Admin Postal Code: 123308 Admin Country: RU Admin Phone: +7.4957856536 Admin E-mail: [email protected]
Here is how the whois record back from a couple of weeks ago:
Domain Name: porn.com Registry Domain ID: 3279275_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.moniker.com Registrar URL: http://www.moniker.com Updated Date: 2014-07-14T23:40:32.0Z Creation Date: 1995-08-19T04:00:00.0Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2019-01-07T23:02:17.0Z Registrar: Moniker Online Services LLC Registrar IANA ID: 228 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected] Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.9546071294 Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited Registry Registrant ID: P-DCK1445 Registrant Name: David Koonar Registrant Organization: MXN Ltd. Registrant Street: LOWER BROAD STREET Registrant City: BRIDGETOWN Registrant State/Province: nu Registrant Postal Code: 0000 Registrant Country: BB Registrant Phone: +809.5199870600 Registrant Email: [email protected] Registry Admin ID: P-DCK1445 Admin Name: David Koonar
As for the site itself it doesn’t seem as it has changed according to Screenshots.com
