[FfejL]

I had this happen to a .com domain I own, also at Namecheap.

In my case it was actually a trademark infringement legal action. My domain got listed as hosting a site that sold knock-off sunglasses[1] . The plaintiff in the case got a court order to transfer all the suspected domains to them, a list of about 1,000 domains. I got no notice, my domain just suddenly disappeared.

I had my lawyer contact the plaintiff, in which we apologized, told them we had no idea this had happened, and promised to up the security (in reality I just nuked the WP site.) About a week or so later they transferred the domain back. For me this was annoying and cost a few hundred bucks in legal fees, but not that big a deal. Obviously not the case for Susam.

[1] My (largely abandoned) self-promotion Wordpress site got hacked, and was used to host an e-commerce site. Weirdly the domain was ${my_real_name}.com, hardly an obvious choice for selling knock off sunglasses.

[anon1m0us]

I actually think wordpress has contributed significantly to the decline of the web. It's not secure. It proliferates so it's easy to hack. It's easy to embed untested plugins in it that are also vectors. It's plagued by all the same problems as microsoft windows.