With all the issues everyone is experiencing with Bliksem, I figured I would start a thread to address this specific issue incase anyone else finds themselves in the same boat, and if anyone may have any solutions.Funny you mention that Lindmar, as I was just about to write about the fact that most of the recent threads are not mentioning anything about another important by-product issue of this whole mess - DNS transfering!

At this point I have given up hope that I will be able to recover any of my data, short of some miracle. However, I feel bad for some others, as I am lucky enough to have a back up of almost all my data with exception to some of the scripts that were created directly on the server.

However, the bigger issue I am facing, and I am sure I am not alone, is that some of our Domain Names are locked by Bliksem, and considering as they are not responding to some of us, this can also turn into a nightmare. In my case, I had a slew of Domain names, and when I originally migrated to them 3 years ago (yes - I have been that loyal!) Monty originally stated that they appeared in WHOIS registries as being locked & owned by Javier & Bliksem only for the migration process, and that once all had transferred, an update would be sent for each to reflect me as the unlocked owner of them all, with exception to the Technical fields of each. True to his word, within weeks of migration, most were changed with exception to a few for some reason. Unfortunately, those few include my main level/primary domain name, and a couple of other important ones. And since Bliksem is not responding to everyone, you can imagine what predicament that is leaving me in. The question now is where do we go from here on this issue?

As I said, the most heart wrenching thing is having been a customer so long, going through their up's & downs, and not being communicated with. Unlike some relatively few lucky people I have seen in some of the recent threads, I have not been so lucky as to receive their recent 'positioning statement' email regarding their recent problems. And judging from what I have seen in some of the other threads & other sites, I can truly say that I have not nearly harassed them as much as others. Most of my tickets have been for silly stuff like Password resets & such. Guess I am not a good customer either, though I am sure a host that wants to focus on retention would love my business.

At this point I guess it is the wait & see game, but I have started to work on Plan-B, which may become Plan-A if I don't hear back from Jav & Bliksem soon. Maybe Santa or the Ghosts of Christmas past can help us, though I believe my son believes more in their powers now then I do at this point!

Anyone have any ideas on how to get a 'locked' domain name (one that should never have been) 'unlocked'? My new host wants me to get Bliksem to 'unlock' it & to provide the transfer 'key', but with no one there answering emails (which seems to be the only way to reach them), I am at a loss as to how to finish the transfer. Any ideas?

Where is the domain registered at? You may be able to contact the registrar directly if your information is on the whois and they may allow you to fax them identification to prove that the domain name is yours.

Unfortunately, it's up to bliksem.. Though I'm pretty sure based on their record of things that they have something in their TOS stating any domains registered through them belong to them

Where is the domain registered at? You may be able to contact the registrar directly if your information is on the whois and they may allow you to fax them identification to prove that the domain name is yours.

Actually it shows as Enom, and when I try to log in, even via lost password, it says "Account does not match the site or is not in good standing", which is no surprise as Bliksem probably didn't pay that bill either!

As to a whois, all 4 sections, Registrar, Administrative, Billing, and Technical show as Bliksem as the contact. Tried calling them (enom), but it says the wait time is 43 minutes, and after 5 minutes it send me to VML!

Issh!

hmmm just another curve ball in there. Good luck trying to get your domain name back. I suggest contacting Enom directly and explaining the situation. After all, Blik was just a Enom reseller. Just wait it out and talk to them....43 mintues is a certainly a drag (but I am sure well worth the wait) and if not...I didn't suggest it :)

Yeah, good ol eNom hold times. They are usually pretty good at working things out though. Normally they will try to contact the reseller multiple times before taking further action but in the end it's their domain since bliksem was a reseller. Just make sure your information is in the whois and you should be good.