This is an interesting article, but it keeps using the phrase "taking over domains", which isn't really what's happening.<p>It's really "squatting on the domain ONLY in the space of a specific provider".<p>And, this isn't new. For example, you can do this on most shared hosting plans...add a domain, and they don't ask for any kind of verification.<p>The only thing this seems to accomplish is lock you, the legitimate domain owner, from using a specific service until you open a support ticket and hash it out with them. You still control the domain, so it's fairly easy to prove control/ownership.<p>That's not good, of course, but it's not the same thing as "taking over a domain". Your WHOIS records still point at your DNS servers, which still return the correct records.<p>Edit: It could, I suppose, be used to take over a mostly "abandoned" domain, where the WHOIS records still point at a provider with this issue, but the underlying account is gone. Again, an issue, but if the domain is abandoned, it's not the same thing as taking over arbitrary, in-use domains.