Latest Domain Name news

Registrars can now block all domains that resemble brand names

Registrars can now block people from registering tens of thousands of domain names that look like, are spelling variations of, or otherwise infringe on brand names.
- Ax Sharma
- February 28, 2024
- 05:45 AM
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Domain shadowing becoming more popular among cybercriminals

Threat analysts at Palo Alto Networks (Unit 42) discovered that the phenomenon of 'domain shadowing' might be more prevalent than previously thought, uncovering 12,197 cases while scanning the web between April and June 2022.
- Bill Toulas
- September 21, 2022
- 04:04 PM
- 0
Dotless domains: Home to the Internet’s shortest URLs

You may be familiar with some of the shortest internet domains used by major companies, such as m.me and fb.me from Facebook (Meta) and Twitter's t.co URL shortener. But, it's possible for live domain names to be even shorter than these choices—and contain no dots.
- Ax Sharma
- September 12, 2022
- 12:25 PM
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CISA updates Conti ransomware alert with nearly 100 domain names

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated the alert on Conti ransomware with indicators of compromise (IoCs) consisting of close to 100 domain names used in malicious operations.
- Ionut Ilascu
- March 09, 2022
- 07:31 PM
- 0
Diversity job board Canvas.com ordered to stop using domain name

Diversity recruiting site Canvas.com has been ordered by a U.S. District judge to drop the use of the domain name over a trademark dispute.
- Ax Sharma
- January 07, 2022
- 11:52 AM
- 1
Popular Q&A app Curious Cat loses domain, posts bizarre tweets

Popular social networking and anonymous Q&A app, Curious Cat has lost control of its domain. Soon after the platform announced losing control of their domain, a series of bizarre events and support responses have confused the app users who are now unable to trust Curious Cat.
- Ax Sharma
- January 01, 2022
- 07:46 AM
- 0
Silent danger: One in five aged domains is malicious, risky, or unsafe

The number of malicious dormant domains is on the rise, and as researchers warn, roughly 22.3% of strategically aged domains pose some form of danger.
- Bill Toulas
- December 29, 2021
- 03:42 PM
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These are the top-level domains threat actors like the most

Out of over a thousand top-level domain choices, cyber-criminals and threat actors prefer a small set of 25, which accounts for 90% of all malicious sites.
- Bill Toulas
- November 12, 2021
- 11:04 AM
- 0
EU legislation introduced to ban anonymous domain registration

The European Union is drafting legislation that could soon end individuals registering domains anonymously on the continent.
- Bill Toulas
- October 13, 2021
- 10:26 AM
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Microsoft rushes to register Autodiscover domains leaking credentials

Microsoft is rushing to register Internet domains used to steal Windows credentials sent from faulty implementations of the Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 24, 2021
- 01:03 PM
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Over 60,000 parked domains were vulnerable to AWS hijacking

Domain registrar MarkMonitor had left more than 60,000 parked domains vulnerable to domain hijacking. The parked domains were seen pointing to nonexistent Amazon S3 bucket addresses, hinting that there existed a domain takeover weakness.
- Ax Sharma
- September 03, 2021
- 03:00 AM
- 1
Major news sites serve porn after vid.me domain takeover

Major news sites including The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and HuffPost, saw their stories now displaying porn videos instead of the once-embedded intended ones. The fiasco happened as prominent websites relied on the now-defunct domain vid.me to embed streaming videos in their articles.
- Ax Sharma
- July 23, 2021
- 02:22 AM
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Network Solutions and Register.com hit by ongoing DNS outage

Both Register.com and Network Solutions are suffering from an ongoing DNS outage that prevents access to websites, VPNs, and other services.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 04, 2021
- 03:48 PM
- 0
Mozilla flooded with requests after Apple privacy changes hit Facebook

Mozilla volunteers have recently been flooded with requests by online merchants and marketers for their domains to be added to what's called a Public Suffix List (PSL) due to recent privacy changes brought forth by Apple's iOS 14.5.
- Ax Sharma
- April 11, 2021
- 11:34 AM
- 1
Get started in the tech space with 80% off a .tech domain

Enhance your visibility in the tech world—and on the internet at large—with a .tech domain extension. Use the code TECHNOW to register your name and get an 80% discount on 1-year and 5-year domains.
- BleepingComputer Deals
- March 23, 2021
- 07:31 AM
- 0
Hacker leaks payment data from defunct WeLeakInfo breach site

WeLeakInfo was a website that offered paid subscriptions that provides searchable access to a database containing 12.5 billion user records stolen during data breaches. This data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, addresses, and in many cases, passwords.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 16, 2021
- 03:03 PM
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Hijacking traffic to Microsoft’s windows.com with bitflipping

A researcher was able to bitsquat Microsoft's windows.com domain by cybersquatting variations of windows.com. Adversaries can abuse this tactic to conduct automated attacks or collect data due to the nature of bit flipping.
- Ax Sharma
- March 04, 2021
- 11:37 AM
- 0
What are these suspicious Google GVT1.com URLs?

These Google-owned domains have confused even the most skilled researchers and security products time and time again if these are malicious. The domains in question are redirector.gvt1.com and gvt1/gvt2 subdomains that have spun many threads on the internet. BleepingComputer has dug deeper into the origin of these domains.
- Ax Sharma
- February 28, 2021
- 11:52 AM
- 2
SpamCop anti-spam service suffers an outage after its domain expired

Cisco's SpamCop anti-spam service suffered an outage Sunday after a its domain mistakenly was allowed to expire.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 31, 2021
- 06:29 PM
- 2
Perl.com domain stolen, now using IP address tied to malware

The domain name perl.com was stolen and now points to an IP address associated with malware campaigns.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 29, 2021
- 11:20 AM
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