Aid in investigating dead crypto exchange owner — Domain records
Domain records help connect the dots to uncover dead crypto exchange owner’s history.
CBC News has a remarkable story regarding the death of Gerald Cotten, who was CEO of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX. It’s a thrilling tale with an unhappy ending for those who entrusted a quarter billion dollars of crypto to the exchange.
One of the people who lost a lot of money goes by the name QCX-INT. He investigated Cotten and the collapse of QuadrigaCX. One of the tools he used to connect the dots was domain name records.
From the story:
In his attempt to untangle the mystery of Gerald Cotten and Quadriga, QCX-INT began with simple things like domain names and any information he could obtain from historical searches, public records, data leaks online and the Wayback Machine, also known as the Internet Archive, which is a graveyard for dead web pages.
QCX-INT stated that searches alone for the domain names used for Quadriga and Quadriga Financial Services would “yield up a name, an address, an email, a phone number. And those can be revealing, since they can be used to connect to other data points.”
Many people have used domain name records to uncover unscrupulous behavior. Regretfully, this is becoming much harder to do in the wake of GDPR, which masks many domain name records.
Set aside 15 minutes to read CBC Fresh’s article or listen to the podcast episodes.
