Comments on: Indictment Shows Ease of Hijacking Domain Name

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:25:12 +0000

“What makes you think such measures were NOT in place? Were there other domains similarly hijacked in subsequent months?”

The indictment makes me “know” this.

By: Story Doesn't Dig Deeply

Story Doesn't Dig Deeply — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:57:29 +0000

Re: “Blame the hackers, but also Comcast for not having security measures in place with their registrar.”

What makes you think such measures were NOT in place? Were there other domains similarly hijacked in subsequent months?

By: EuropeanDomainCentre

EuropeanDomainCentre — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:24:08 +0000

It wouldn’t happen if The company had not
1. An overview of All their domains
2. Updated standard ownership detail in The Whois

I do believe that registrars should assume more responsibility to educate their clients about good domain practice

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:06:25 +0000

Hi, Is that not what Mark Monitor does? I phoned them to inquire, and a minimum of $10,000 is required to just register domains there. But that would be a large portfolio, though Howard Kantor of Mark Monitor said it could represent as few as 50-25 domains.

By: Antony Van Couvering

Antony Van Couvering — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:11 +0000

I tried the gold-plated registrar idea when I ran NameEngine, and again at VeriSign after they bought NameEngine. It had lots of ultra-manual safeguards; I had it all worked out.

The idea never went anywhere; brand owners thought (and, I’m sure, think) I should be keeping their name safe anyway. Besides (they would say) it only costs $7 at GoDaddy.

CEOs don’t make these decisions; legal departments do, and they have budgets. They’re already gnashing their teeth that they should have to spend any money on procedures to safeguard their marks on the Internet, and they see registrars as do-nothing functionaries who exist to exploit the brand owner’s misfortunes.

By all means try it — let me know what happens…

Antony

By: Patrick McDermott

Patrick McDermott — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:20:09 +0000

“Wouldn’t it be easier to accredit themselves…?”

Unasi,

That was my first thinking also.

But then I realized someone from Comcast would have to guard the Registrar which opens a whole new can of worms such as trust issues, competency, espionage, cost issues, etc.

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