Black hat SEO is on the rise with webmasters trying to increase their ranks in the search engines, any way they know how. One of the fastest and easiest ways to get a Domain Name the Black Hat way is the very illegal act of hijacking the domain of a competitor and then moving it to another registrar. At some point in time a domain will be found by the legal owner and after paying many legal fees and going through red tape, the damage as they say will have been already done.

You may be hearing the term domain hijacking for the first time but it has been around for a number of years. Though the fine points have been tweaked and there are actual websites and email jockeys that will advertise for hijacking. These ads will read something like this:

Hire a Hijacker to get any Email password you desire. All system include Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Mac, Netscape, Lycos and AOL. We can uncover email passwords for over 600 domains.

There was a report on a blog called the Th.e Con.cep’tu.al.ist. The blog was called Hijack a Domain for $ 200. Many webmasters have read this blog or have read about the blog on many news sites but hardly anyone has provided a link to that blog. Which is great because it is an illegal move and by reading someone’s blog who reports about how to do it for money it like being an accessory. Or it may be a scam altogether. It is something that you simply want to stay away from.

It may very well be a set up. Law enforcement conducts stings all the time why would that be any different. There are so many of these offers on the web that it is highly possible that it could be a set up. But the owner of that site Sahar Sahid does want you to have some helpful information on how to stop you from losing your domain from hijacking. He says “if domains are your business, if your domains are valuable to you, don’t overlook the very basics- their safety”.
 
Domaintools started offering a Domaininsurance a couple of weeks ago, so if you rely on your domains, take a look at this. If you have an online brand and yur company suffers from cybersquatting, you should join the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse. Also read the reports about the blackmarket for domains and the case of raven.com, which was stolen lately. If you are interested in the topic, you should also read how one can steal a domain with a bogus patent.