Someone hijacked my domain
Legal + technical recovery run as a step-by-step plan to regain registrar — The company where your domain name is registered — whoever controls that account controls the domain. control and lock it down.
Replies within 12 hours, 7 days a week. Price locked before work starts.
security rescue · how it gets fixed in 48 hours
From symptom to fixed — the 48-hour clock
Your rescue, hour by hour
Exactly what happens in your 48 hours
Forget vague "the team will be in touch". Here is this ticket's plan on a literal clock.
This strip plays the exact clock you get the second you book: same phases, same hourly steps, same 48h deadline. Nothing here is invented after the sale.
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You send the symptom
One sentence, a screenshot, a link — any format works. It becomes the letter of the ticket.
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≤12h
The ticket is locked
A senior engineer replies with a written flat-rate quote: $3,500, all-in, no hourly meter. Nothing starts and nothing is billed until you approve it and pay.
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12h×2
Prefer speed? 12-hour express
Any ticket, decided before payment, becomes a 12-hour delivery at $7,000. The rush is a fixed, published option — not a meter ticking next to the flat price.
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0–48h
The work, hour by hour
This ticket is delivered through its own named sequence. The exact depth depends on what the diagnosis finds — but the sequence is the one below.
- 0–12h 1 Assess
- 12–24h 2 Reclaim
- 24–36h 3 Secure
- 36–48h 4 Prevent
At 24h you get a mid-run check-in: what is done, what is left, and — if anything outside scope shows up — a separate flat-rate quote for your approval before any extra work.
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48h
The handover
Fixed, tested, and proven done. You receive the fix verified within the agreed scope, the rescue log, the plain-English handover document, the before/after proof, every key still under your control — and one locked invoice.
- Registrar recovery plan written for you
- DNS — The internet's address book: it turns your domain name into the server visitors actually reach. locked and audited
- Hijack prevention guide for your team
“Nine times out of ten it is not an exotic APT — it is a plugin — An add-on that extends your CMS; outdated or abandoned plugins are the most common way sites get hacked. nobody updated, a key lying in a `.env`, or an admin password that already floated through a breach dump. We find the actual entry point, close it, clean what is left, and hand you proof.”
A stolen domain can take your store, email, and Google ranking with it in minutes. This rescue is a step-by-step recovery run with the registrar, designed to get your domain back under your control and keep it there. You get a written plan you can submit without guessing, DNS protection so it cannot happen again, and clear guidance you and your lawyer can act on the same day.
What to do the minute your domain is stolen
Time is the whole game. While the hijacker controls the DNS, they can point your email and website wherever they want. This rescue starts with damage control — protecting your email and accounts that depend on the domain — then executes the registrar recovery steps, then locks everything down so the domain is yours and stays yours. Every step is documented for the registrar case.
The security that makes you a hard target
After the domain is back, I harden the registrar account: strong authentication, a locked status on the domain, transfer locks, verified contact records, and a DNS audit. Most domain thefts succeed because an account had weak credentials or a single point of failure. That single point is what we remove.
What your $$3,500 actually buys you
Reclaim what is yours
From hijacked to locked down in 48 hours
Four phases. Every credential rotated. The domain back in your name.
Hijacked
Someone stole your domain. The nameservers point elsewhere. Your email, your site, your brand — all controlled by a stranger. Every hour costs you revenue and reputation.
Yours and locked
Domain reclaimed. Registrar transfer complete. Two-factor auth on every account. DNS locked. You own it again, and no one can take it without your biometric approval.
What it delivers
What lands in your inbox at hour 48
Every rescue ends with the same handover standard — plus the pieces specific to this security ticket.
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The fix, within scopeThe symptom you booked is resolved, tested, and verified working before I say "done".
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The rescue logWhat was broken, what I changed, what to watch — written down and yours to keep.
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Plain-English handover docReadable by the owner, not just the IT team: access, config, and the "what next" in one file.
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Every key stays yoursAccounts, credentials, and access stay under your control — nothing changes owner.
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One locked invoiceThe flat rate you approved, in USD, agreed in writing before work started.
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Forensics in human languageHow the attacker got in, what they touched, and proof the environment is clean.
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Hardening logEvery door closed and logged — firewalls, logins, permissions, keys.
Scope is written before work starts. Anything outside it gets its own flat-rate quote for your approval — never an open meter.
After you approve the ticket
A secure handover of access
Once the flat rate is approved, the only thing left to hand over is access — and it's handled like it's stolen property: only what's needed, over a secure channel, and deleted when it's done.
What a security rescue typically needs
- Hosting panel, SFTP or SSH access (server IP + port)
- App/CMS admin — a temporary editor account works
- Database access, but only if the cleanup needs it
- Cloudflare or registrar access if DNS is involved
How it's protected
- Passwords go by a one-time secret link, never in plain email
- IP: server-side rescues get our egress IP to allowlist — or you share the server IP + port
- Minimum access: read-only where possible, extra only when the diagnosis needs it
- Credentials are deleted or rotated the moment the rescue is done
- NDA on request; standard confidentiality is in the working agreement
No access, no charge: if we can't reach what we need, you're told honestly during diagnosis — and the no-fix, no-fee rule still holds. Full after-payment handover checklist → · Print the Domain Hijack Recovery handover card →
Plain answers
Questions people ask before booking
Straight answers, no fine print in the sales pitch.
Someone stole my domain — can I get it back?
A hijacked domain — nameservers changed, registrar lock, email redirected — is recoverable if you move fast and keep evidence. This rescue runs the recovery with the registrar and verifies your website and email survive, flat rate in 48 hours.
How much does the Domain Hijack Recovery rescue cost?
$3,500 flat, all-in. Price locked before work starts, delivered in 48 hours, and if it can't be delivered within scope you don't pay. No hourly meter, no surprise line items.
What exactly do I receive when the rescue is done?
The complete handover: the fix verified within the agreed scope, the rescue log, the plain-English handover document, the before/after proof of the work, every account and key still under your control, and one locked invoice in USD. Nothing else is ever billed — if anything outside the scope appears, you get a new flat-rate quote to approve before any work starts.
Can you get my domain back if it was stolen?
In most cases the domain can be recovered through the registrar using a documented chain of proof plus escalation to the registry when a registrar stalls. If the domain was resold to a third party, case-specific legal steps apply — you stay part of that decision.
How fast can this happen?
Damage control and the recovery package are delivered inside 48 hours. Actual transfer-back time depends on the registrar and their fraud team — usually a few days once the case is filed.
Will my website and email survive the recovery?
That is the first thing we protect. We secure the accounts that depend on the domain before the transfer is finalized, so the recovery does not create a second outage.
Keep the fire under control
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The smart way to understand it first
Read before you hire, then fix it in 48h
The plain-English version of the Domain Hijack Recovery problem — what to check yourself and when to stop.
Stop losing money every hour you wait.
Every minute your security problem is live, your competitors take your customers. Send the symptom — get the flat-rate Domain Hijack Recovery ticket within 12 hours.
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