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New Rules Make Domain Hijacking Easier

Posted by timothy on from the and-ease-of-use-is-important dept.

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!"

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  1. Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    *waits for the slashdot editors to take a week's vacation*

  2. Re:Reach out and hijack someone. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:simple solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah!

    Lets all overwrite our sendmail daemons with one line of text. That'll show em!

  4. Re:The question is by jvj24601 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How would you notice?

    Stories are posted only once.