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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!"

8 of 399 comments (clear)

  1. simple solution by rubee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    someone give me a sample of the email notice and I'll whip up 4 lines of perl to take care of that.

    1. Re:simple solution by Errtu76 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Then a few million people will suddenly need to reinstall sendmail. If you try to quote some geeky commandline, make sure you get it right.

  2. Light at the end of the Tunnel by Sophrosyne · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The upside is this will all end after the first lawsuit against ICANN.
    Which should be in about 7 days.

  3. Re:Some registrars will protect you by DeepFried · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I switched to GoDaddy for this exact reason. They also happen to have great 24/7 phone support unlike my previous very, very,crappy registrar.

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    Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?
  4. Re:Joker.com auto-locked my domain by RealProgrammer · · Score: 3, Insightful
    First they helped me transfer my domain away from a bad registrar

    Was that your idea, or theirs? :-)

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    sigs, as if you care.
  5. Re:Some registrars will protect you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've got upwards of 45 domains at godaddy, and have never received a single "spam" from them.

    Registering a domain name at the same ISP who is hosting the website, etc., is a VERY bad idea. It makes it REALLY difficult to switch to a different hosting ISP. It may be convenient to do such things for little throwaway domains like "thesmithfamily.com" but for anything important you want to use a real registrar so that you are not locked in.

  6. Makes a change by nihilogos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the usual shitfights I've gone through trying to get a domain transferred even though I own it.

    Network solutions has an outdated email address listed for the admin and technical contact, and in order for you to change it the require faxed copies of a passport, credit card, finger prints, a 500ml sample of your blood and any children or pets you might have as hostages.

    2 years and several attempts later and, although they occassionally manage to transfer the domain OK, the email address is still fricken wrong. These new ICANN rules could make my life much easier next time we change ISPs.

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  7. Re:Simpler solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why don't thousands of us request a transfer of their domain so that they couldn't possibly respond to all of us.

    Done.