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From owner in phishing attack, returned to owner — FCM.com, hijacked

UDRP case returns domain to rightful owner.

Fermat Capital Management LLC has won a UDRP for the domain name FCM.com, a domain name it used to own.

As stated by the firm, in December it fell victim to a phishing attach targeting GoDaddy clients. The phishing email was sent to the technical contact for the domain and asked him to “log in and reactivate your account”.

Unfortunately he fell for it and handed over his username and password to a thief. The domain was hijacked out of Fermat Capital Management’s account and clients started complaining regarding bounced emails a couple days later.

UDRP has been used multiple times in the past to recover stolen three letter domain names, but this is the first case like this in a while.

FCM.com was sold on DomainState in 2007 for $40,000.

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