NameBright

NamePros Blog

Domain blog covering the latest domain news, domain sales, reports, analysis, advice, interviews, strategy, and more.
Spaceship Spaceship
Subscribe to blog
Prefix: security

security Would You Notice a Domain Vanishing from Your Account?

Most of us treat our registrar accounts like banks. We deposit our digital assets, enable two-factor authentication, and assume they are safe in the vault until we are ready to sell or renew. But the reality is that the Internet is fragile, and software is prone to error.

Recently, we have...
 
Last edited:
Click to expand...
79
26 Thanks
18 Like
5 Max ▲
•••

security Cloud Outages Show Risks of Relying on Essential Services

Today a global Cloudflare outage disrupted countless websites and online services. Not long ago, Amazon AWS suffered a similar outage. These events remind us that while cloud platforms bring many advantages, they also create single points of failure that can affect entire industries...
 
Last edited:
Click to expand...
20
15 Thanks
5 Like
•••

security How To Avoid Domain Theft - Part 3: Managing Personal Information

We discussed how to understand hackers in part 1 and phishing emails in part 2. Now we discuss managing your personal information.

Managing your personal information is an important but often overlooked aspect of security. Unfortunately, many organizations use personal information...
 
Click to expand...
24
16 Thanks
8 Like
•••

security How To Avoid Domain Theft - Part 2: Phishing Emails

In part 1, we covered how to avoid domain theft by understanding a bit about how hackers operate. Next, let's discuss phishing emails.

We're pretty lucky that phishing email senders aren't too smart. Most the phishing emails I see have poor English, look rather slipshod, and aren't...
 
Click to expand...
21
14 Thanks
8 Like
•••

security How To Avoid Domain Theft - Part 1: Understanding Hackers

When you own online assets, security is particularly important. Think about it: what would happen if every web account you own was suddenly under someone else's control? Most people don't realize just how catastrophic that would be until it's too late.

Recently, the number of domainers...
 
Last edited:
Click to expand...
31
20 Thanks
12 Like
•••

security Critical Security Vulnerability in Windows - Protect Your Domains!

With all the recent web-related security vulnerabilities in Mac and Linux, it's finally Microsoft's turn to take the blame. Make sure you protect your computer so you don't lose any domains!

A patch for Windows 7 and higher released April 14, 2015 fixed a vulnerability known as as...
 
Click to expand...
16
9 Thanks
8 Like
•••
Log in or sign up to post here.

Share this page

We're social

Top news this week ➔

New comments

Escrow.com

New posts ➔

Spaceship

Auction activity ➔

Domain Recover

Favorite/Best Registrar 2025

Polls of interest ➔

CryptoExchange.com

Hot this week ➔

Catchy

Community favorite ➔

WebNIC

Hot this month ➔

Blog favorites

  • The sidebar remains visible by scrolling at a speed relative to the page’s height.
Back