Domain, XBox announcement brings out cybersquatters

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May 23, 2013
XBox announcement brings out cybersquatters
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On Tuesday Microsoft announced its new video game system called
XBox One.

Moments after the announcement, cybersquatters went to their
favorite registrars to start registering related domains.

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And they did it in great numbers.

More than 1,000 .com domains related to the XBox were registered
on Tuesday. They range from general terms to names of games that
will be released on the system.

A company that sells modified game controllers registered 13 domains
including "XBox One" or "XBox 1" and controller terms.

Someone even registered XBoxOneHacked.com. That will certainly
happen some day.

What can a company like Microsoft do to protect itself?

Well, Microsoft itself registered hundreds of domains as a defensive
measure.

It's also filing UDRPs. One registrar reports it has already received
a UDRP notification on an XBox One domain.

But there are so many possible permutations of domains that it's
impossible (and unwise) to defensively register them all.

The frivolity of fully protecting against cybersquatting in this
case will remain when new TLDs are released. Some might argue
that a new TLD will mean Microsoft wouldn't have to worry about
cybersquatters.

Microsoft has, after all, applied for .xbox.

But note how the company owns XBox.com, and cybersquatting is
still occurring on hundreds of second level .com domains even though
the logical site to learn more about the system is XBox.com.

Even when it owns .xbox, cybersquatting and need for defensive
registrations will continue.


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Moniker.com and Name.com Respond to Hack Claims Posted: 09 May 2013 10:59 PM PDT Wednesday DNN ran an article about a purported hack of several domain name registrars by HTP (Hack the Planet).  While HTP claimed that the hosting company Linode.com was the intended target, the group also claimed they were able to hack in to Melbourne IT, Name.com, Moniker and Xinnet and provided “evidence” of this on their HTP5 zine in a file called registrar-data.txt . Linode.com acknowledged the hack in a blog post. Name.com has not responded specifically to the claims made by HTP, but the company sent out an email on the same day of our story alerting customers to change their passwords. Name.com recently discovered a security breach where customer account information including usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords and encrypted credit card account information may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals. It appears that the security breach was motivated by an attempt to gain information on a single, large commercial account at Name.com. Moniker.com representatives sent DNN a statement today about the claims made by HTP.  As we had mentioned in the earlier article, the information published (which we are not reprinting for obvious reasons) contained a handful of user names and passwords for administrative personnel with email addresses using @oversee.net.  Moniker is no longer owned by Oversee and some of the employees on that list are no longer with Moniker or Oversee for that matter. The information seemed dated at best. Moniker’s letter to DNN stated : “In regards to the alleged attack, our investigation has revealed the following facts. -The published file does not contain any access or information related to or about Moniker customers, their accounts or their domains. -The information was also not accessed through the Moniker registrar platform. -The information included in the file contained access to a discontinued standalone content only site intended for public viewing. We take any security questions extremely seriously and felt it important to provide a detailed response.”   From what DNN saw in the HTP published files, there did not appear to be any customer user names or passwords from any of the registrars mentioned including Melbourne IT, Name.com, Moniker.com or Xinnet.  (In other words, your log-in information isn’t published somewhere online for everyone to grab.)  The published file seems to be more of a “look what we saw” snapshot. Related posts: Hackers Break in to Prominent Domain Registrars, Moniker, Melbourne IT, Name.com and Xinnet NameDrive Account Information leaked; Less than 1% of accounts affected Moniker launches DomainMaxLock Breaking News – Oversee Acquires Moniker KeyDrive S.A. Acquires Moniker and SnapNames from Oversee.net (PR)

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Hackers Break in to Prominent Domain Registrars, Moniker, Melbourne IT, Name.com and Xinnet Posted: 08 May 2013 05:49 AM PDT A story on Hacker News from earlier Tuesday  mentions that a group of hackers , Hack The Planet (HTP), was able to hack in to several domain name registrars late last year . The registrars were not  specifically targeted, rather they were hacked in order to take down the hosting of another hacker’s IRC channel. Even though the registrars were not specific targets of the attack, HTP have posted a file called registrar-data.txt (not resolving now which details some of the info accessed from the registrars. The HTP5 zine (no apparently down, cached copy here) brags about the registrars being “owned”. Name.com, MelbourneIT, Moniker and Xinnet are mentioned: Speaking of registrars, Xinnet, MelbourneIT, and Moniker – you’re all owned. Back in November, we hinted at Huawei access in our Symantec release. Their registrar? Xinnet. Total domains owned: about 5.5 million total. No kidding. :P The hackers admitted difficulty with Melbourne IT security specifically because the registrar controls the DNS for Twitter.   “Domain management credz for Melbourne IT are mostly internal SOAP requests. DNS control of Twitter is tight.” The info that was accessible from the hack in to Name.com seems to include data base access to a great amount of information.  The registrar-data file lists countless databases including quickbooks, customer info, hosting accounts, etc. The Moniker information that was published included several administrator accounts with user names and passwords. Some of the accounts included former employees of Moniker/Oversee. Moniker is no longer a company owned by Oversee so that information seems to be somewhat dated. As these are claims by hackers that have yet to be verified by the registrars involved, DNN is making attempts to contact all registrars involved to find out what breaches of security occurred and what was done to fix these problems.  To our knowledge no customer account information has been published publicly and there are no reports of domains stolen.   Related posts: Comcast.net Domain Hijacked at Network Solutions KeyDrive S.A. Acquires Moniker and SnapNames from Oversee.net (PR) Breaking: Keydrive buys Moniker & Snapnames from Oversee.net Three Domain Registrars Lose Accreditation SnapNames and Moniker Introduce Self-Serve Listing Service

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