picking up expired domain names and collecting accidental payments made to that address -- is it fair?
🚨PSA: I almost got wrecked🚨
Sharing the story to hopefully help nobody else get wrecked. DOUBLE CHECK YOUR @ensdomains NOW.
I’ve used 7605.eth (my punk #) as the ENS for my main collection for a few years now. Usually I’m good about remembering to renew it but there’s been a lot going on and I forgot a couple months back. Yesterday I was extending a loan on @gondixyz and needed an additional 400 USDC to cover the origination. I went to my Coinbase and did what I’ve done many times before and sent 400 USDC to 7605.eth. After a few minutes of it not arriving I started to look into it and it took me a minute to figure out what happened. I put 7605.eth into etherscan and everything seemed normal at first, address looked like what I expected, but then I noticed a transfer out to a fatleopard.eth. I freaked out thinking my wallet was compromised, then noticed an ENS transaction. Went to ens.domains and found that 54 days ago a wallet address with the same 5 beginning characters as mine (0x862) had registered the domain after it expired.
I’m so used to checking those first 4-5 digits and assuming all is well so this has been a huge lesson learned. I’m extremely lucky to have only lost $400, it could have been a massive loss. I’m also very used to sending NFTs I buy from my hot wallet to this wallet using the 7605.eth ENS so I’m very lucky to have not purchased and moved anything in the last few weeks and to catch it before I did.
If you use an ens domain for any important wallets make sure to remember the registration deadlines and stay on top of them. And get into the habit of checking more than those first 5 digits.
Stay safe out there friends ❤️
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Shill me your $ENS domain, looking to possibly ape👇💭









