This is a post from 02/03/2008 by Bjorn Kassoe Andersen, founder, owner and leader of Direction, a management and communications consulting company based in Denmark, which had its domain, direction.com, stolen back in 2006.
On feb. 1, New York Times had a good article describing the development of the domain name industry – and the economic incentive for stealing domain names. Continue reading The economic incentive for stealing domains »
This is a post from 01/30/2008 by Bjorn Kassoe Andersen, founder, owner and leader of Direction, a management and communications consulting company based in Denmark, which had its domain, direction.com, stolen back in 2006.
Recently I was interviewed about how our domain was stolen and how we got it back. You can hear the interview as a podcast from VTalkRadio. Continue reading Our domain theft story now on podcast »
This is a post from 12/01/2007 by Bjorn Kassoe Andersen, founder, owner and leader of Direction, a management and communications consulting company based in Denmark, which had its domain, direction.com, stolen back in 2006.
Today I corresponded with Enrico Schaefer from Traverse Legal, a law company in Michigan that specializes in among other things domain theft. He wrote to me that the experience we had is common. I didn’t hear anyone say that so clear before and it confirms that we are talking about a systemic problem which ICANN and registrars should address. Check out his recommendations on how to protect domain names, he sees all the kinds of trouble people are getting into. Also, Wall Street Journal on September 25, 2007 ran an article with the headline Web-Address Theft Is Everyday Event. In the article, Bob Parsons, chief executive officer of GoDaddy.com says that hijacking occurs daily and that the frequency has increased as Internet use grows. Continue reading Domain theft happens every day »
This is a post from 11/16/2007 by Bjorn Kassoe Andersen, founder, owner and leader of Direction, a management and communications consulting company based in Denmark, which had its domain, direction.com, stolen back in 2006.
Here is a simple fact: Your (valuable?) .com/.org/.net domain is only as secure as your mailbox. ICANN does not write this in their regulations but if you boil it all down, that’s how it is. Anyone who can hack your mailbox will be in control of your domain name. I wonder what exactly the companies with hugely valuable domain names are doing. I looked up who is taking care of google.com – and this nice little job is taken care of by markmonitor.com. Dropped them an email to ask if they could help me. Got no answer. Called them by phone, and yes, they could help if we had 100 domain names or more. I didn’t ask about the price. They probably have very good security. But why doesn’t ICANN stipulate that everyone who owns a domain name should be able to buy higher security as an option?
Facebook now asks me if I’m sick and tired of their antispam feature with the curly letters with lines through – and they propose that I authenticate my identity through an sms with a code they send to my mobile phone. That’s the kind of simple trick that ICANN could demand that all registars implement. As long all the security around domain names are running through only one rather insecure channel (our mailboxes) we will keep seeing a rise of domain thefts based on identity thefts. Why doesn’t ICANN change its policy? Continue reading Why doesn’t ICANN make a secure system? »
This is a post from 09/29/2007 by Bjorn Kassoe Andersen, founder, owner and leader of Direction, a management and communications consulting company based in Denmark, which had its domain, direction.com, stolen back in 2006.
My name is Bjørn Kassøe Andersen; founder, owner and leader of Direction, a management and communications consulting company based in Denmark.
In November 2006 the domain name we use for our English language website, direction.com, was stolen. To our surprise, ICANN’s general domain name regulations were of no help getting it back. On this website we describe how to prevent getting your domain stolen – and what you can do if it should happen to you. We welcome your comments. Here is a link to the rss feed with new entries from us and here is the rss feed with comments from others.
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