In a shocking turn of events, the author of this web content discovered that their domain name had been transferred to another registrant without their authorization or knowledge. The domain name was now registered to a German criminal justice body called The Verden Public Prosecutor’s Office, which was involved in the takedown of the Avalanche malware-hosting network. The author speculated if their server had somehow become part of the Avalanche botnet, but found no evidence to support this theory. The domain name had been “sinkholed” accidentally as part of an operation by the Shadowserver Foundation, but it was returned to the author after they raised the issue with NIXI. Despite the resolution, the incident raised concerns about the vulnerability of domain names and the possibility of future sinkholing.
https://susam.net/blog/sinkholed.html