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GoDaddy breach is latest reminder to use registry lock

Websites that handle financial transactions should add Registry Lock to their domains. Brian Krebs wrote this weekend about a recent attack on cryptocurrency services via the domain name registrar GoDaddy. In at least two cases, it appears that attackers were able to either transfer a domain to another account and modify its nameservers or otherwise […]

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Grand Theft Domain Name – DNW Podcast #303

Kieren McCarthy discusses the astonishing story of the theft of the world’s most valuable domain name. When Sex .com was stolen in the 90s, it was most likely the most valuable domain name in the world. And it wasn’t just a routine domain theft like what occurs today. What transpired involved a lifelong conman, an […]

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Tobacco.com has been stolen

The domain name Tobacco.com has been reported as stolen, and the current registrant is not the legitimate owner, Mr. Michael Fischer. Tobacco.com was unlawfully transferred away from its previous registrar, Network Solutions. The transfer to GoDaddy oc...
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Lawsuit alleges Pay.io is a stolen domain name

Company recently realized that its valuable domain name was missing. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona alleges that the domain name Pay.io is stolen. Deltaventure GmbH, a German company, filed the lawsuit (pdf) against the domain name and John Doe. According to the suit, the plaintiff acquired the domain name in 2012 […]

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Engineering firm sues to recover KFDE.com domain name

Company says a thief took the domain name it has been using for nearly two decades. A California engineering firm has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to recover the domain name KFDE.com, which it says was stolen from it. K.F. Davis Engineering has been using the domain name since it registered it in 2000. It alleges […]

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