[At-Large] Small business domain name hijack via gmail

[Wendy Seltzer]

Brendler, Beau wrote:
 > <http://www.davidairey.co.uk/google-gmail-security-hijack/>

Interesting reminder how tenuous and insecure domain name "ownership" is.

> Maybe we can help this guy somehow? 

"UPDATE December 28th: You left over 400 comments on my original post
(now located here on my .com domain). My domain name has been returned,
and you can read how it happened in this blog article." linking
<http://www.davidairey.com/david-airey-dot-com-restored/>

However, we might well want to look into ways (including education) by
which individuals could keep their domains better secured.

--Wendy

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