Dharmasthala recovers stolen domain name — Hindu temple

Stolen domain recovered through a cybersquatting claim.

Shri Dharmasthala, one of South India’s most celebrated and revered religious landmarks with a history spanning over 800 years, has recovered its stolen domain name.

Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Educational Society registered the domain name shridharmasthala.org in 2001.

The organization stated someone stole the domain earlier this year:

On June 10, 2026 the disputed domain name had been fraudulently transferred without the Complainant’s knowledge, authorization, or consent. The registrar informed Complainant that from March 11, 2026 account logins were registered from Ip addresses in Sweden, Switzerland, and following the transfer from Japan. It was further confirmed that the two-Factor Authentication was not activated on the account at the time of the incident and that the e-mail address ho@s dmesociety.in associated with the account appeared in publicly noted data breaches, indicating that credentials had been exposed prior to the incident and that a form of Authorization notification e-mail was sent to the registered e-mail address, a Gmail account that the Complainant submits was itself compromised as part of the same coordinated attack.

It filed a cybersquatting dispute with Czech Arbitration Court, and a UDRP panelist ordered the domain name transferred back to Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Educational Society.

Shri Dharmasthala attracts 5.5 million devotees annually.

Ankur Raheja represented Shri Dharmasthala in its complaint.