Tag – Domain-name-security

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Last year a registrar employee was the victim of social engineering resulting in an unauthorized transfer of a domain name. 

A few months ago, a registrar employee was the victim of a spear-phishing attack, resulting in a DNS hijack. 

A possible solution to counter such issues and other risks is a Domain Name Registry Lock. 

Domain name registry locks are available for many TLDs. They all cover the same basic level of protection. 

• Domain name update lock, preventing unauthorized or accidental updates …

Update: 25-05-2018

The procedure below is now live as per the ICANN temporary spec. I observe that not every Registrar was aware of the below situation. If you cannot transfer out your domain name(s) advise the gaining registrar to stop parsing WHOIS data and trying to send FOA emails to the registrant or admin contact, this will no longer work.

 

The new procedure has been communicated last week by ICANN to all registrars. To view this communication click here,

As mentioned in a previous blog the WHOIS will change drastically over the next few weeks.

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