How to Protect Domains from being Stolen

[Sufyan]

So what do you people do to protect your domains from being stolen? Any tips? :?

 

[htmlindex]

When I was working for a government agency, we had a guy who's only job was to crack our passwords.

Why would your work hire a hacker to crack passwords of their employees? To make sure you weren't doing anything illegal on your computers?

The government has too much money, they should give it to me

 

[squid]

Why would your work hire a hacker to crack passwords of their employees? To make sure you weren't doing anything illegal on your computers?

The government has too much money, they should give it to me

I think it was for testing the security of each employee's password. So if he couldn't crack them, there was minimal risk of somebody else doing it and if they did, using them for malicious purposes.

 

[Sufyan]

When we should not use free emails then what should we use? Another noob question.

 

[accent]

Free addresses like yahoo may expire especially when they are not used often.
Worse, the handle could even be claimed by someone else.
Your domain names are only as secure as the admin E-mail address.

I have an extra Yahoo address that I have not opened in over a year. Just checked it - opened right up, no problem at all.

Hotmail/Live has an annoying requirement that you have to log in every 30 days. In practice it takes longer than that but eventually they will dump all your mail and hold your ID. Never heard of them letting someone else get it, but would not put it past MS.

Gmail was hacked where someone could get copies of all your mail sent to them. So they could request Passwords and read the responses. That leak has been plugged but others are, of course, possible - both in free services and in private software. I agree with Zan - you gotta keep watching.

 

[Sufyan]

To go along with #1 and #2, make sure your e-mail address has a secure password as well. Domains can be stolen by people gaining access to your e-mail and requesting passwords, thus breaking into your account at the registrar.

Can Whois Privacy be used to protect domain names from being stolen?

 

[accent]

Can Whois Privacy be used to protect domain names from being stolen?

If they can not connect the domain with the email address then, yes, that could help.

Note that one part of the Snowe bill would forbid Whois privacy.

 

[Venture]

I think a very basic one, which I am about to preach but don't particularly practice, is don't use the same password for everything.

I read on another forum that a scammer hacked a database and used the same password from the database to access the guy's email account. The scammer then accessed his registrar and sold all the domains.