Network Solutions loses a Client's Domain Name

Officials at Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet in Boulder were shocked to discover recently that their Web site had disappeared off the face of the Internet.
“We had bought the domain name from NameSecure, which is kind of ironic,” said Jenifer Sher, the ballet company’s executive director. “I guess it must have expired, but we didn’t receive any renewal notices.”

To make matters worse, Sher couldn’t send or receive e-mails, because her address was tied to the Web site.
Sher, who admits she isn’t tech-savvy, was flustered and in disbelief. She said it wasn’t easy getting to the root of the problem.
NameSecure didn’t have a phone number on its Web site. Sher called her Internet-hosting company, which told her the domain had expired and gave her NameSecure’s telephone number.
A NameSecure customer rep explained there was nothing the company could do. The domain already had been sold by parent company NetworkSolutions to a Japanese man. Within days, a Japanese-language Web site appeared at lemonspongecake.com.
Original article : http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/17/new-wave-of-cyber-theft-involves-names-of-web/