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This is disappointing. The domain name registrar I use - and have been telling friends and clients to use - is one of those ones that does subdomain hijacking.
I know because a client asked me to set up a website for him that he is eventually going to move to my server. He registered the domain himself at domainsatcost.ca and left the DNSing up to them.
Check out the domain and see what you get. Dig it and you get 66.116.125.150, which belongs to some company in Seattle.
Eventually, my friend will set up his website, but the subdomain hijack will cause him all sorts of problems with his Google ranking.
And this is only a problem because he parked his domain with them. If he'd changed to external DNS hosting and listed my primary and secondary DNS servers as the authorities for his domain name, he wouldn't have had this problem. And as soon as he does this, the problem will go away.
I'm just sad that an otherwise reliable, local company would be so sleazy. And they're so cheap too. Maybe that's why.
I'm not going to recommend them any more and will transfer my domains away from them as soon as it's economically practical and would urge anyone else to do so too.
