Domain ownership fragility

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

That's disturbing.

I've had a domain for over a decade that's four letters dot com. Registered by phone (!) and I can still vividly recall the fellow, when I said xxxx.com, replying, incredulously, "that's all?" and complimenting my getting it. Even back then, when most folks hadn't run a browser, and thought "dot com" was a failed California business. I've since been told the domain could be valuable.

I had some mix-up where my ownership was threatened - the authorized email no longer existed, and some other thing. Pretty scary to look at my site one day and some generic page was displayed. Went through some hoops for days to regain control. Glad to know my domain provider was being careful, but for a while I wondered if I was going to get it back.

And that was just a cascade of error, not an attack.

For some reason, my mindfulwebworks.com domain isn't as lusted after.