security Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale

[Lox]

As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com.

It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe.

At issue is a problem known as “namespace collision”, a situation where domain names intended to be used exclusively on an internal company network end up overlapping with domains that can resolve normally on the open Internet.

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[Grego85]

the early 2000's called, they want their paranoia back.

 

[Lox]

the early 2000's called, they want their paranoia back.

Yeah, the comments and entry was posted on Saturday, February 8th, 2020

 

[Grego85]

Yeah, the comments and entry was posted on Saturday, February 8th, 2020

I would have thought 2002

 

[pb]

"O’Connor said he hopes Microsoft Corp. will buy it, but fears they won’t and instead it will get snatched up by someone working with organized cybercriminals"

Nice pitch.

 

[Rhinnnn]

Just $1.7 mil? I would have expected the price to be at least $5 mil.

 

[HotKey]

Can't believe MS would name internal networks ending in .com with a second level they didn't even own. So this is truly nuts. What was not known then about the power of domain names, and what is known now, 30 years later. And to think that the concept of the Internet was invented ~20 years before domain names!

Interesting stuff as always, Lox thx.

This stuff makes me wonder, what will we discover about blockchain tek 20-30 years from today, that we wished we would have known of? Not knowing what the future holds, is what makes today's investments so tantalizing.

Hats off to the pioneers, those taking the risks and the paths less traveled, seeing what's around the bend when others are looking for a straight line.

 

[alcy]

lets see... if bunch of us here np members puts up 1k... how many people to get this into our collective folio...mmmmmmm looks like only 1700 members... think we can do it? whose in?

 

[.X.]

I like the way Mike O’Connor has controlled his own destiny with his names through the years, selling them only we he wants to at the prices he wants. very cool stuff

 

[pb]

I like the way Mike O’Connor has controlled his own destiny with his names through the years, selling them only we he wants to at the prices he wants. very cool stuff

With good domains, you sell when you want to. With average domains, you sell when anyone wants one.

 

[Lox]

...what will we discover about blockchain tek 20-30 years from today, that we wished we would have known of?

for now it's called Qutrit

Regards

 

[.X.]

With good domains, you sell when you want to. With average domains, you sell when anyone wants one.

Yep, I remember a write up article on him back in 2003 or 2004 i think it was, very smooth dude, he knew what he had before anyone else did.

 

[Lox]

Yep, I remember a write up article on him back in 2003 or 2004 i think it was, very smooth dude, he knew what he had before anyone else did.

Mike's blog

 

[leonardo lumbreras]

When he was acquiring some of the best domains in history, I had just been born. =)

 

[Name Trader]

When he was acquiring some of the best domains in history, I had just been born. =)

You look older than that

 

[leonardo lumbreras]

You look older than that

kkkk I was born in 1992

 

[branding]

The story about bar.com is pretty nice as well. Just visit the domain

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Wow, clearly some really nice names in his portfolio.

 

[Levi Zheng]

The story about bar.com is pretty nice as well. Just visit the domain

+1. Just visited that and got lots of humour