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New Rules Make Domain Hijacking Easier
Tanktalus writes "Netcraft seems to have a little ditty about new rules from ICANN that take effect on Friday making it easier to hijack domain names. Essentially, if someone tries to take your domain, and you don't answer within 5 days, they now assume you are okay with the transfer. Previously, the default answer was no, and you had to explicitly state your acceptance of the domain transfer. Owners of small domains, beware: no more computerless vacations that last more than 4 days at a time!"
*waits for the slashdot editors to take a week's vacation*
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You never know who could go down...someone could steal their name!
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Can you imagine waking up one day and finding Slashdot full of articles praising Bush and promoting school prayer?
cronjob /usr/sbin/sendmail myregrisbator.com
every Tues and Fri
echo "I refuse permission to transfer domainname.com ">
if a few million domain names did likewise...
I was thinking more Passport.com and Hotmail.co.uk
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How about just hijacking icann.org?
Suppose we sent a transfer request every minute, on the minute.
If we submitted ENOUGH of them, surely they'll forget to reply to ONE of them. And we'll have the domain name, cleanly by their own policies. They'd have no means of recourse.
1. Use a DDOS on the ICANN's website so they can't respond for 5 days. :D
2. Ask to buy their domain
3. Wait 'till they can't answer....
4. You're done!
...would "Didn't RTFA" = "Insightful"
OK, you missed my penis joke.
I did too, until I returned with a small reading light and a magnifying glass.
Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
If anyone registers www.microsoft.com
I would recommend having your lawyers ready...
12 billion in lawyers is a good start...
The truth shall set you free!
It would seem that this time, Netcraft really did confirm it.
Bravo.
The "Insert Quote Here" line is almost as predictable as inserting an actual quote.
Yeah!
Lets all overwrite our sendmail daemons with one line of text. That'll show em!
It would require all the operators take a 5 day COMPURTERLESS vacation!
You know this is slashdot and chance of that happening is ZERO.
[for mathematicians, it is zero, not a near zero but a real zero.]
Emacs is good operating system, but it has one flaw: Its text editor could be better.
'nuff said.
Obviously you've never dealt with totalnic.net.
How would you notice?
(this is meant as a lighthearted jest).
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now I'll be able to get that domain I've been waiting for!
Go Daddy makes it hard for you to transfer the domain between members of the same family. I know someone who had a domain that her father bought for her and after a year he said she had to take over the payments. She tried to get them to start billing her for it instead of her father and they refused. So I can see that you are safe with your domain not being transfered since they won't transfer it under any circumstances.
Flood Network Solutions with notices that icann.org ownership is being transferred to someone else.
If there are enough of them, then there got to be at least one which isn't answered within the 5 day timeout.
And whoever wins, wins control of the Internet! Whoot!
Get emailing, theres no bigger competition than this!
-- The universe began. Life started on a billion worlds...
-- Except on one where stupidity was there first.
I've had a .org domain for about 2.5 years. I used a unique address specifically for the admin e-mail in the WHOIS data, and never got any spam addressed to it... until a few months ago when a slow but steady trickle started. I changed the address to one of the form abuse@... and haven't had any more spam (so far) 8-).
What pisses me is the whole "opt-out" approach. Have spammers and CANSPAM proponents taken over ICANN?
ICANN screw you over unless you explicitly tell me no?
Jeez.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
asking him if he would give me a billion $. If I haven't heard from him in 4 days, I'll tell the bank to assume he's OK with it and to give me the money. I like this new rule.