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    Anyone keep receiving forgot password emails ?

    I keep receiving these courtesy emails from CIRA because someone is requesting my password.


    Shouldn't this be an issue that CIRA look into? Since someone is trying to gain control of my domain(s).

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    I hope you contacted them about this.
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    I have had transfer request from a Registrar and asked them who sent it they told me I can't get that information, I personally think Cira needs to look at the system a bit closer ...if someone is requesting a transfer the details of the requesting party should be included in the request.

    I personally think the registrars need to take a false request more serious and saying it was a mistake is a joke...I mean it could happen but at least they could flag the persons account incase it becomes a pattern... why don't they follow up on these to figure out why it happened???.

    Telling me or someone to just cancel is weak and allows the possible scammer to try again. This is an overall problem.

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    CIRA won't do anything they just tell you to ignore them.

    Also, the forgot password ones they don't tell you which domains. My CIRA account has all my domains in one account.

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    I have not received these from CIRA. I would be worried because yes obviously someone has their eye on something. I received one from Sibername, and then out of the blue, was contacted by end user about that domain a week after.

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    Thanks for the heads up....

    Quote Originally Posted by theinvestor View Post
    I keep receiving these courtesy emails from CIRA because someone is requesting my password.


    Shouldn't this be an issue that CIRA look into? Since someone is trying to gain control of my domain(s).
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    Hi Razor, You still own the domain, gives you 1 year renewal but it goes in their account and they could change the nameservers causing all kinds of troubles.

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    We had someone who wanted a domain from us and tried everything possible to get it, except for contacting us. The annoying part is that most registrars will not turn over IP addresses of the people or any account information, even after making several tries for the account password and domain key.

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    This happened to me last week. Could it be someone that previously had a name I now own and was confused? Yes. Is it possible someone is trying to access my account? Yes.

    Either way, this is concerning. Can anyone confirm what CIRA's standpoint on this is? Possible fraud?
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    I don't think it would hurt to follow up on any attempt to transfer a domain that was not requested...if it was a mistake then fine it would be recorded...and that person would have to explain if it happens again... but without a follow up or someone tracking down these fraud/false or unwanted request... they are allowing scammers to thrive.

    it makes no sense to just let it go... zero

    These request are coming in they know your domain, your email and sometimes your name...and you know squat about who it is. Not even an email...and if I decline they send back an email to that person with your information on it say you declined the transfer, and you still have no information on who tried to transfer your domain ownership without permisson. Where is Cira????

    * If someone is requesting a transfer of ownership I should have a right to know the ID or somekind of information not just a blank request, not even an email address????
    very strange system...

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    It's been a long while since I've seen this but in my case it was some absent minded person who forgot they owned the plural version of a word and I had the singular. They were requesting mine repeatedly. They finally contacted me via the contact form on the website and were swearing up and down that I had stolen their domain. I checked on the plural and sure enough it had expired not long before and was picked up by someone else in the tbr.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stewie View Post
    I don't think it would hurt to follow up on any attempt to transfer a domain that was not requested...if it was a mistake then fine it would be recorded...and that person would have to explain if it happens again... but without a follow up or someone tracking down these fraud/false or unwanted request... they are allowing scammers to thrive.

    it makes no sense to just let it go... zero

    These request are coming in they know your domain, your email and sometimes your name...and you know squat about who it is. Not even an email...and if I decline they send back an email to that person with your information on it say you declined the transfer, and you still have no information on who tried to transfer your domain ownership without permisson. Where is Cira????

    * If someone is requesting a transfer of ownership I should have a right to know the ID or somekind of information not just a blank request, not even an email address????
    very strange system...

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    I am concerned that when CIRA changes to using EPP that the registrars will no longer be there as a second stage to prevent tricky transfers.

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    Here is a response i recently received from CIRA :

    Hello,

    Thank you for your inquiry.

    Someone requested your login information through our retreival tool on the CIRA public website. The only one recieving the information is the Administrative contact on the account which is you.

    For other questions, you may contact the CIRA customer service number:
    1-877-860-1411, Monday to Friday, from 8am to 8pm
    Thank you

    Regards,

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    Quote Originally Posted by stewie View Post
    I don't think it would hurt to follow up on any attempt to transfer a domain that was not requested...if it was a mistake then fine it would be recorded...and that person would have to explain if it happens again... but without a follow up or someone tracking down these fraud/false or unwanted request... they are allowing scammers to thrive.

    it makes no sense to just let it go... zero

    These request are coming in they know your domain, your email and sometimes your name...and you know squat about who it is. Not even an email...and if I decline they send back an email to that person with your information on it say you declined the transfer, and you still have no information on who tried to transfer your domain ownership without permisson. Where is Cira????

    * If someone is requesting a transfer of ownership I should have a right to know the ID or somekind of information not just a blank request, not even an email address????
    very strange system...

    JMO
    I receive a number of these a week.
    They're usually people who forgot to renew at some point.
    I've also received requests for transfer to another registrar.
    I approve these and promptly transfer them back to a preferred registrar - thanks for extending the registration for me by an additional year.
    After that, I usually receive an email, because the dough-head trying to manage "their" domain finally clues in that it's no longer registered to them.
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    I am still receiving these from CIRA and today i actually received it from the registrar itself namespro. Giving me login and password details as it was being requested.

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