On August 6, 2019, the
Sonoma Valley Hospital went into red alert. Celia Kruse de la Rosa, the hospital’s communications director, noted at the time that
SVH.com, their prestigious three letter .com domain and hospital acronym, had been “maliciously acquired.”
It was yet another case of domain hijacking, with a highly valuable LLL .com getting stolen at
Network Solutions. The thief moved the domain quickly away from the US registrar’s control and onto BizCN, a Chinese domain registrar. At the same time, SVH.com was moved under Cloudflare’s DNS, using their proxy DNS service to hide their locale...