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GoDaddy handed a 27-year-old nonprofit domain to a stranger 2,000 miles away

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 27, 2026
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GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, transferred a 27-year-old nonprofit’s main web address to a complete stranger 2,000 miles away. They didn’t ask her for a single document to prove she owned it. Within four minutes, websites and email for all twenty of the nonprofit’s chapter offices went dark.

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