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

[Bill Silverstein]

Karl,
  How would that have changed things? This is not where the registration
expired, but it is where someone fell for the providing credentials to
the account or Network Solutions, again, fell for a scam.

I can see why a limit on term length. What if the owner dies? Or the the
business goes under.  It is not like we can trust the registrar or ICANN
to do anything about dead domain names.  We can't trust them to do
anything about falsified Whois information.


On Fri, August 23, 2019 8:32 am, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> One has to wonder - why is it still ICANN policy to limit domain name
> contract terms to a maximum of ten years?
>
>  Â Â Â  Â Â Â  --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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