And we all know how this would end. GoDaddy and Paypal will try to make this right because of the negative publicity. Why does it always take a post like this to call for help?
How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
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#32Who are people's current favorite domain registrars? I've been with name.com for the last year or so and have been happy, but I'm always curios to hear from others.
Been with gandi.net for a few years now; excellent service and 2-factor auth.
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#33pretty freaky stuff. Also, what was the attacker so interested in the @N for anyways? future investment in case some big company/celeb comes along wanting the username? Seems so crazy to go after it...... if Twitter can't sort this out, can't we all just shame the acct into inactivity... Is squatting on it worth all this Mitnick-attack-work?
Well, if this story is true ( I put the if because it seems silly to have that account be the target ) then access to the account is proof of a crime (this is why it seems silly)
If they sell it to someone I guess that is a reason to take it, but it also seems like some enterprising DA would want to use it as an example of receiving stolen property ( because News! Hacking! Fame!) So if anyone buys this name they might be in trouble at some unspecified point in the future.
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#34It's not a $50K Twitter username unless someone actually paid $50K for it at one point, is it?
"Not accepting an offer of $50K for a twitter username I didn't use" doesn't really count...
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#35what's more likely, someone hacks your domain name / DNS gaining control of your MX records or someone hacks your username @gmail.com?
possibly depends on whether you are using 2-factor auth with gmail.
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#36Seems like Twitter could easily verify the story based on their own logs and then restore access to his N account. He doesn't mention pursuing that, though.
He said he wasn't using it much. Thus, isn't he basically a squatter?
He tweeted pretty heavily previously. Was one of the small team who made @echofon. He'd reduced his tweeting, but was still using the account in other ways.
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#37Who are people's current favorite domain registrars? I've been with name.com for the last year or so and have been happy, but I'm always curios to hear from others.
http://DNSimple.com for us. Their template system and support is fantastic.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
He said he wasn't using it much. Thus, isn't he basically a squatter?
Ya, the fact that he tweeted a grand total of twice in 2013 (see https://twitter.com/N_is_stolen ) makes me have a little less sympathy.
I'm a very casual and infrequent tweeter, and I can't fathom how that makes my username 'up for grabs'. Sorry you have such a twisted view of username ownership :/
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
He said he wasn't using it much. Thus, isn't he basically a squatter?
Ya, the fact that he tweeted a grand total of twice in 2013 (see https://twitter.com/N_is_stolen ) makes me have a little less sympathy.
If someone had a Mercedes and only drove it twice a year, is it OK for someone to steal it?
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#40This is a scary story!
Focusing on the Twitter handle sale part: I have the twitter handle @jetsetter, and have been offered multiple thousands of dollars for it (guess who!).
Unfortunately, selling a twitter handle is against TOS. Only @israel has been officially allowed to transfer hands for money, that I'm aware of.
So trying to broker the sale of a twitter account can allow the buyer to report your 'behavior' to twitter. They can seize the account and make it so no one has it, which may be what the buyer prefers to you having it.
So no matter the price you could command, it isn't like you could just list @n up for sale and make it rain.