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Domain hijacking doesn’t seem to be as large of a problem as it was five or ten years ago, but still a story here and there make the news. The moral of the story below? Pay your bills on time or early, especially when it comes to domains. As David Solomon can tell you praying won’t bring it back

Small business owner David Solomon was hijacked online.

Or rather, his company’s online address was claimed by someone else after he’d already moved in, leaving his business locked out of the Web home it had built for itself.

Solomon said his more than year-long experience was “horrific,” causing him to stay up nights praying for a resolution to the situation, wringing his hands and fretting over finances. . . .

It’s a long, complicated story as Solomon tells it. But in a nutshell, MotorWatch’s claim to one of the two URLs — nutzandboltz.com — was dropped, either by accident, miscommunication or both. As soon as it was released, a domain-name bandit grabbed it “and things just kept getting worse,” said Solomon. [ read more Mastering your own domain ]