Thief !!!

[JoeBiz]

Can I get some opinions on the best way to protect your domains from theft?? Any ideas that you could offer would be very much appreciated !!

Thanks !!!

8^X

 

[afactor]

Okay I'll try post it again and hope if it stays this time.
Lastpass is a free password manager and webform filler that keeps your data encrypted and safe in the vault even if you lose all of it on your computer.
It has also a good auto login feature.Should work with most browsers.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8542/

 

[Alex P]

I like to keep my expensive names with moniker, probably the safest registrar out there.

Do moniker still keep there passwords in clear text?

 

[MattheP]

Lastpass is a free password manager and webform filler that keeps your data encrypted and safe in the vault even if you lose all of it on your computer.

Lastpass stores your passwords on their own server. Although they are encrypted, I dont like that.

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Do moniker still keep there passwords in clear text?

Passwords are never stored on the server. What is stored is undecryptable (one-way) form of password. I really dont think that anybody, over the last 15 years, is using plain text data to compare passwords.

 

[Qc4]

Do moniker still keep there passwords in clear text?

I very much doubt that they ever did. Out of curiosity, where did you hear that?

 

[Alex P]

I saw it while reading a thread on the forums, though it may be outdated now.

 

[Kate]

It's true, Moniker used to store passwords in plain text. You could get a reminder of your actual password. Now they send a link for you to generate a new password. I hope they actually hash the passwords in their database and do not store the passwords in plain text like before.

 

[Alex P]

I thought I read it somewhere, lets hope that they do though its a massive improvement already by not sending the password in a email to you.

 

[Qc4]

I saw it while reading a thread on the forums, though it may be outdated now.

Thanks, I think I found the thread you're referring to.

It's true, Moniker used to store passwords in plain text. You could get a reminder of your actual password. Now they send a link for you to generate a new password. I hope they actually hash the passwords in their database and do not store the passwords in plain text like before.

I agree that it's bad practice to send passwords in plain text via email, so it's good to know that they no longer do that, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they ever stored them that way. Most likely, they used two-way encryption, which is also how sites like Amazon and PayPal can retrieve your credit card details without storing them in plain text.