Tag Archives: maxlock

Fri 12th December 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Moniker MaxLock Gets Maxed Out - New Portfolio MaxLock covers more and costs less. In September I wrote about MaxLock, a new product from Moniker that improved the security of domain names by making it harder to transfer domains out. Just recently CheckFree.com had its domain hijacked when someone logged in to CheckFree.com’s Network Solutions account and changed the nameservers. Fabulous has a free product called Executive Lock that would have prevented this hijacking. Now Moniker has put ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
CheckFree.com Theft Should Lead to Added Registrar Security - CheckFree.com theft is a reminder of how easy it is to divert a domain name’s destination. Visitors to bill pay site CheckFree.com early Tuesday morning were diverted to a Ukraine site that tried to install malware on visitors’ computers. It wasn’t a high tech hack. It turns out someone got a hold of CheckFree.com’s username and password at domain registrar Network Solutions. They logged in and changed the nameservers for the domain name. It was really ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
GoDaddy Files Patent for “Domain Name Hijack Protection” - Patent covers system to automatically reject domain name transfers. GoDaddy has filed a patent for a system to protect against domain name theft. The patent lists GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons as the sole inventor and was filed last year, but was not published until this month. United States Patent Application 20080215716 describes a service subscribed to by customers in which domain transfer-out notices are automatically ignored. A notice is sent to the customer informing ... read more ...