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An Arizona man has been sentenced for redirecting his former company’s domain name to a porn site.Travis Tso worked for an IT company in Phoenix. In 2011 he renewed an account for the company with GoDaddy.While someone at a company has to have registrar login credentials, it’s important to have...

An Arizona man has been sentenced for redirecting his former company’s domain name to a porn site.Travis Tso worked for an IT company in Phoenix. In 2011 he renewed an account for the company with GoDaddy.While someone at a company has to have registrar login credentials, it’s important to have...

DNS security needs to be at the forefront of every discussion about network security. DNS attacks are more common than most people realize and failures in DNS security can be crippling to an organization. How much money does an organization lose every hour that it is unreachable via email? How...

DNS security needs to be at the forefront of every discussion about network security. DNS attacks are more common than most people realize and failures in DNS security can be crippling to an organization. How much money does an organization lose every hour that it is unreachable via email? How...

GoDaddy also announced better protection against domain name theft.The company isn’t giving away it’s secrets around this but says it has new processes to review transfers before they are executed, including proprietary algorithms to assess the risk of a transfer being fraudulent.Not to put...

GoDaddy also announced better protection against domain name theft.The company isn’t giving away it’s secrets around this but says it has new processes to review transfers before they are executed, including proprietary algorithms to assess the risk of a transfer being fraudulent.Not to put...

Security is especially important when you have a domain name. Recently, more and more domain investors’ accounts have been attacked by hackers and their domains were irreversibly stolen. Of course, at last these accounts will be retrieved, while valuable domains have been transferred. And it is...

Security is especially important when you have a domain name. Recently, more and more domain investors’ accounts have been attacked by hackers and their domains were irreversibly stolen. Of course, at last these accounts will be retrieved, while valuable domains have been transferred. And it is...

This year we’ve seen an exponential increase in domain name hijacking and theft, all thanks to a requirement by ICANN for registrars to verify WHOIS information. Domain theft is rampant in countries that the US legal system cannot comfortably reach, such as China and Russia. Change your...

This year we’ve seen an exponential increase in domain name hijacking and theft, all thanks to a requirement by ICANN for registrars to verify WHOIS information. Domain theft is rampant in countries that the US legal system cannot comfortably reach, such as China and Russia. Change your...