[...] compromised are stunning. It’s also unfortunate that, had Baidu used added security such as that offered by Moniker or Fabulous, this entire event could have been [...]

[...] is not completely without fault because it should have taken more precautions to prevent this. There are more secure ways to protect people from taking control of your domain name. Baidu did not specify how much money it [...]

[...] a number of added tools they should use to protect against many of the most common domain problems. Moniker and Fabulous offer domain locking tools with added security. GoDaddy offers Protected Registration. Companies should also subscribe to [...]

Gee sounds like these call in security measures are just so secure. I imagine that’s how this one was breached. (Remember Register.com’s auth code line of crap)

You would think companies like Amazon etc would set up there own registrar to look after there thousands of domains.

Protection is key in any business!

Especially Online!

Regards,

Robbie

Another solution (for domainers) would be to own your own private registrar.

For a public company, this type of dns hi-jacking could be devastating.

I’m sure they used a site monitoring service.
Why didn’t the service pick up the hijacking?

But, it could also be socially engineered at the hosting company even if it is a dedicated server.

Do corporate type registrars like MarkMonitor and CorporateDomains have add’l level of access? I don’t know.