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!"

Comments

Re:Some registrars will protect you

[Creepy Crawler]

Of course I'm flamebait. Anyone who tells the truth on slashdot is... but I'm RIGHT.

Re:Autoresponder on the registration email address

[cpghost]

That's dangerous, because the acquiring registrar may also use an automated process to get confirmations. If your autoresponder sent a reply to that registrar's software, it could be misinterpreted as a confirmation of transfer.

All in all, ICANN's new policy is a very bad move.

Re:5 days?

[Lord Apathy]

I agree that 5 days is to few but so is 10 days. It should be more like 30 days and you should have the option to say that under no cercumstates is your domain to be transfered.

But I do believe this will be a self correcting problem. Someone will try to steal a major domain like ford or walmart. It will go through under the new rules and some one will get thier ass sued off. Pretty soon things will be right back to the way they where.