[At-Large] Sonoma Valley Hospital loses 3-letter domain name to hijackers

[Karl Auerbach]

One has to wonder - why is it still ICANN policy to limit domain name 
contract terms to a maximum of ten years?

         --karl--

On 8/23/19 7:58 AM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:
> With all the safeguards in use, that's really surprising.
> Best,
>
> Olivier
>
> On 23/08/2019 16:46, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
>> https://www.sonomanews.com/home/a1/9924307-181/hospital-website-hijacked-by-pirates?sba=AAS
>>
>> Sonoma Valley Hospital’s website was hacked earlier this month, 
>> forcing the change of its URL and email addresses, hospital officials 
>> announced last week.
>>
>> On Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 6:30 p.m., the hospital’s domain svh.com 
>> <http://svh.com> was “maliciously acquired,” said Celia Kruse de la 
>> Rosa, the hospital’s communications director.
>>
>> 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.’”
>>
>> 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: sonomavalleyhospital.org 
>> <http://sonomavalleyhospital.org> (web) and @sonomavalleyhospital.org 
>> <http://sonomavalleyhospital.org> (email),” de la Rosa said.
>>
>>
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