The Bloggers With The Most To Say
My Blog Has Been Hacked - Help!
my blog has been hacked and replaced by a porn /erotic site. http://www.margottobed.com (proceed with caution)
it is the homepage of my parents computer and many friends check it often... i'm FREAKING out because i've been unable to find a real PERSON to contact at blogger.com
When i login to my blogger account all of the settings (layout, blog posts, etc.) are the same as they were in my real blog but when i click the "View Blog" button it brings me to this new hacked version.
I purchased my URL from blogger and cant' find a help contact for the domain either.
PLEASE let me know if you have a contact there or any suggestions, thanks so much for your help
it is the homepage of my parents computer and many friends check it often... i'm FREAKING out because i've been unable to find a real PERSON to contact at blogger.com
When i login to my blogger account all of the settings (layout, blog posts, etc.) are the same as they were in my real blog but when i click the "View Blog" button it brings me to this new hacked version.
I purchased my URL from blogger and cant' find a help contact for the domain either.
PLEASE let me know if you have a contact there or any suggestions, thanks so much for your help
Tags: blogging
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by cooper on -
Is that registrant listed above you?
If it is not than it is at least partially go-daddy's fault. Blogger doesn't have anything to do with who has registered the blog, and if is it now someone else that is not bloggers fault from what I can see.
You can call go-daddy and I'd do that first while contacting blogger at the same time.
I do know that , although they deny it , at least awhile ago G0 Daddy, it has been suggested by many, does have a lot of these domain name hijackings, some people suggest they do it on purpose if the domain name is worth something to someone else..like a porn site from a foreign country. That is why my domain name for by blogs is never registered with anyone but the host of my blog.
-
Permalink Reply by nicopolitan on -
It looks like Blogger IS the host of her blog, because when I try to visit the subdomain it tries to redirect me to the TLD (top level domain).
In that case that makes Blogger the 3rd party (or the host). If you can log into your Blogger dashboard, I'd submit a support ticket there since they seem to be the ones who did the domain registrar thing.
-
Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on -
For future reference, just because someone's username redirects to a different domain doesn't necessarily mean that service registered it (directly or indirectly). Blogger, Tumblr, and several other services allow you to bring your own domain and they'll use the custom domain if you set it up correctly.
If you need another example of this in action, http://nicktabick.tumblr.com redirects to http://tumblr.twoslashes.com because I have it set up that way. Tumblr never registered my domain, and (to the best of my knowledge) does not even offer such a service.
Back on topic, I did some digging into Blogger's documentation and hit upon this little gem, which more or less means you'll need to keep talking with GoDaddy. Margot, I suggest you open your Google Checkout history (you can get there quickly by using this link), take a screenshot of it as proof that you are the paying owner of the domain, and see where that gets you by sending another e-mail to GoDaddy's support team with the screenshot as an attachment.
-
Permalink Reply by nicopolitan on
-
True that! I just remember that margottobed.blogspot.com was the original manifestation of the blog back in the day, so good catch on semantics -- that is actually very important for people to know.
I wonder if Google has a GoDaddy deal or something, and if that specific go-between party can be reached. Eg., is it on the Google/Blogger or GoDaddy side of things? Especially if one bought the domain through Blogger, because I know Blogger is not an ICANN registrar.
-
Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on
-
All signs point to GoDaddy. Google even reminds you they hand off the registration directly when you try buying the domain through Blogger (screenshot), which I read as, "If you have domain trouble down the road, you'll need to talk with our partner, not us."
-
Permalink Reply by MargotToBed on -
wow thats incredibly helpful, i'm responding to godaddy with that and will give it a shot.
so far no way to get a response that i've found out of Blogger.com
-
Permalink Reply by cooper on
-
yes it doesn't matter in this case because the registrar is what is changed from what it looks like, that is solely go-daddy.
I wonder if she can stop the redirect to her old blogger name somehow?
-
Permalink Reply by David Stehle on -
I'm thinking this is not a very rare occurrence. So does GoDaddy have a bad rep for having domains hijacked a lot? Because I always thought they were a pretty good company and was considering signing up with them myself, but now I'm having second thoughts.
-
Permalink Reply by cooper on
-
I think there have been incidence's where what appears to have happened to this blog has happened to others. Some people suggested it happened when their domain name became worth something - all of a sudden the registrar changed to someone else, and though go-daddy denied having anything to do with it only go-daddy has control of the rgistration .
I can't say it happens a lot, and go-daddy denies it is their fault every time, but the chance of it happening is enough to make one want to registrar their domain at their hosting site. Not that it can't happen anyway but go-daddy is the only place I've have heard of this happening. It's been awhile since I've heard of this again though, until today.
- ‹ Previous
- 1
- 2
- Next ›
© 2012 Created by Lisa.
