Thoughts about the hacking of Echourouk news paper

Echoroukonline website was hacked Sunday at around 10 pm by Egyptians as part of a media campaign…
http://www.echorouk.net/eng/index.php?news=9213

The website is still down till now, or precisely the domain is owned by the hackers, and I wonder why they didn’t get the domain back yet? As one of the readers commented, a simple call to GoDaddy technical support would fix the problem, am I wrong??

• Product and Technical Support: (480) 505-8877
• Billing Support: (480) 505-8855

Anyways, they seem to have very good developers/administrators after all!!!
Going back to how the domain name was owned according to their news paper by a:

“It is a new technique and I have not heard about it for 15 years in my work,” manager of GECOS Sofiane Sakhri said.

Seriously?? It is that simple, they got the domain name, how? it is impossible that this is a vulnerability in the GoDaddy’s website, so the only way is that the domain was transferred!!
Echourouk claims that the attackers sent emails in its behalf, means, used this technique I discussed few weeks before.
As far as I know, a domain transfer cannot be transferred without having a transfer key, and then you have to accept explicitly the transfer by clicking on a specific link in your email sent by your registrar. So I don’t see anyhow, how the attacker can trick GoDaddy by sending them faked emails. Which leads us to the only logical explanation that the attackers got access to the domain name administrator’s email, and they got everything from there.
What I’m trying to say, is that it is highly probable that Echourouk’s website administrator got tricked by a fishing attack, or some secret documents of the company got stolen by the hackers.
And yes, it happens, even for the 20th most visited website in the world, do you remember the Twitter DNS attack few months ago?? But the difference, twitter recovered so fast, maybe just 1 or 2 hours down, by Echourouk… it seems it is going to be down forever.
So really, don’t they have phones to call technical support and get their domain back??
They were ranked 1157 and their new domain is ranked 16,785,560, that’s how bad it is, in case they don’t see it!

If you have any other theories, please enlighten me.