I’m not sure if this is a total coincidence but it was revealed a could of days ago that Nicholas Bolton’s domain company Bottle Domains was suspended, “due to a serious breach of its obligations under the registrar agreement”.

The breach is to do with personal details of clients (credit card details) being stolen from Bottle Domains and published for sale on the web. Allegedly Bottle Domains did not do enough to advise their customers of the breach and the possible consequences. This happened several years ago but recent events involving the BrisConnections saga may have stirred up a hornets nest somewhere.

As I mentioned earlier, Nicholas Bolton runs 4 different domain company and they all seem to share some sort of resources. These include Bottle, Bottle Domains, Domain Central, and Name.com.au – the company I tried to register through. They use variations for the actual domain registrar. Various attempts at contacting Domain Central and Name.com.au seemed to fall on deaf ears.

The suspension occurred during the same week and possibly even the same day that I tried to register the failed domain.

I applied for a domain transfer and fortunately it went through successfully and pretty quickly to Jumba and everything is now up an running.

The suspension has since been lifted and there is talk that Bolton is trying to get all transfers that occurred during the suspension returned to his company’s control but I haven’t heard anything more from this.

I’ll keep you posted on what happens to my domains.

You can read more about the whole saga here