<div dir="ltr"><div>Some more details via DomainIncite : <a href="http://domainincite.com/24639-three-letter-com-owned-by-hospital-hijacked">http://domainincite.com/24639-three-letter-com-owned-by-hospital-hijacked</a></div><div><br></div><div>"<strong>A California hospital has seen its three-letter .com domain reportedly hijacked and transferred to a registrar in China.</strong>
<p>Sonoma Valley Hospital, a 75-bed facility north of San Francisco, was
using <a href="http://svh.com">svh.com</a> as its primary domain until earlier this month, when it
abruptly stopped working.</p>
<p>The Sonoma Index-Tribune <a href="https://www.sonomanews.com/home/a1/9924307-181/hospital-website-hijacked-by-pirates" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reports</a> that the domain was “maliciously acquired”, according to a hospital spokesperson.</p>
<p>It does not seem to be a case of a lapsed registration.</p>
<p>Historical Whois records archived by DomainTools show that <a href="http://svh.com">svh.com</a>,
which had been registered with Network Solutions, had over a year left
on its registration when it was transferred to BizCN in early August.</p>
<p>BizCN is based in China and has around 711,000 gTLD domains under
management, having shrunk by about 300,000 names over the 12 months to
April."</p><p><br></p><p>Dev Anand<br></p>
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Agree. Let's add this to our DNS abuse discussions<br>
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Surprising? I would say scandalous.</div>
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And it's an abuse vector that ought to concern At-Large far more than gTLD allocation.</div>
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Why doesn't ICANN have an appeals mechanism that allows maliciously redirected gTLDs to be returned to their original owner if malice can be demonstrated? Since we now now that "all the safeguards in use" can still be circumvented, why isn't there an after-the-fact
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Yes, it could be messy. But certainly you must all realize that if this goes unchecked it only opens the door to a new form of ransomware along side "we've encrypted your site".<br>
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<p class="gmail-m_-3817365329097797649gmail-m_8354198719571272498gmail-first-paragraph">Sonoma Valley Hospital’s website was hacked earlier this month, forcing the change of its URL and email addresses, hospital officials announced last week.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 6:30 p.m., the hospital’s domain <a href="http://svh.com" target="_blank">
svh.com</a> was “maliciously acquired,” said Celia Kruse de la Rosa, the hospital’s communications director.</p>
<p>Hospital CEO Kelly Mather added: “The hijacking of our domain name was surprising and we are finding out, not unusual for highly valuable three letter domain names such as ‘svh.com.’”</p>
<p>When it became apparent that the hospital would not get the domain name returned, they “began migrating all internet connectivity to the new and current domain:
<a href="http://sonomavalleyhospital.org" target="_blank">sonomavalleyhospital.org</a> (web) and @<a href="http://sonomavalleyhospital.org" target="_blank">sonomavalleyhospital.org</a> (email),” de la Rosa said.</p>
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