What's your thoughts on shorter, maybe brandable domains, against longer more descriptive domains?
"Short vs. Long Domain Names: Pros and Cons for Your Business"
Aww, my oldest domain name hicom.org was 33 years old yesterday.
It was the only VAX System that Kevin Mitnick ever had a legitimate account on, he lasted less than a week.
Spouse: ”Did you buy another domain name for a side project you’ll never finish?”
@BleepingComputer : unless the verifying server thoroughly checks the domain name of the server the user authenticated to, this could put users of passkeys at risk of phishing attacks.
See https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/97#issuecomment-175766580 why.
I should probably look for a new domain registrar at some point.
In the Old Days™, I had my .co.uk domains on 123-Reg, back when a domain was £2.50 plus the 39p fee. But they were expensive for .com, so those went on Namecheap.
Then 123-Reg got expensive and crap, so I moved the .uk domains to Namecheap.
Now it'd be good to use a UK company. But all the review sites are listing the big companies that I wouldn't trust because they're big and clunky and unresponsive (Go Daddy, Ionos, Google Domains, and even HostGator 
) or "buy your cheap domain at a super-cheap web host" companies… that I wouldn't trust!
I know @beasts do domain registration. But I'm already using one of their awesome Raspberry Pi servers and I've kept my domains separate from my hosting for 20+ years for "emergency purposes" (i.e. "shit hits the fan and I need to move something in a hurry while locked out from the web host").
Does anyone here know anyone who works for Joker.com - It seems the place that somebody may.
About a decade ago, I lost access to the email my account login is under. The domain was essentially stolen (via Joker and for the same reason this is happening now) so obviously I have no reason to trust the present owner.
Sadly though, that means that all of my domains on #Joker are potentially "owned" by anyone who has access to that email address - They get all my expiry notices, all my billing information, everything. And Joker won't change it, because they need me to confirm any changes from the old email address - Which again, I haven't had access to for a decade.
I have gone through hoops over the years, where they say "We can't change it, you just need to confirm it" - It's like talking to a lobotomised traffic warden; the concept doesn't seem unusual, or hard to understand, I can prove who I am with a European passport or you know, because I am pretty well known on the Internet and I can login to the account and have the password and 2FAs and phone numbers connected with it.
It's beyond frustrating! And I know German bureaucracy is supposedly bad; but this is just insanity.
If I can't do it through Joker, is there a body above them that takes consumer complaints? I have a wonderful collection of 30 years of support emails for them :P
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I'm looking to migrate our website domains to services not owned by google/squarespace, and our web host to something cheaper than bluehost.
It's just a simple wordpress website for a card game, Penguinslap.com. We don't really get any traffic at all. Very occasionally we make a sale, and those links redirect to a PayPal site.
Any suggestions?
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At the 82nd ICANN meeting in Seattle in March 2025, Amazon unveiled its vision for a personalized extension with its .amazon.
On our blog, Marion Carrier analyzes this innovative strategy and highlights the benefits of a well-managed digital presence https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/expert-papers/amazon-and-its-personalised-internet-domain-eyes-fixed-firmly-on-the-future/
Every organisation that uses a .io domain name needs to be paying attention to this.
The transfer of sovereignty will lead to a push to take the ownership of the .io domain registry off the British military-aligned company that currently controls it.
It's also probable that either a new ISO-3166 code will be assigned, or the islands will simply be subsumed into Mauritius, which could eventually lead to .io being replaced or deleted.
Although the commercial value in the brand makes that pretty unlikely, there are relevant precedents, such as .yu (Yugoslavia), .tp Portugese Timor), .zr (Zaire) and .an (Netherlands Antilles).
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"Franse overheid voert phishingtest uit op 2,5 miljoen leerlingen"
https://www.security.nl/posting/881630/Franse+overheid+voert+phishingtest+uit+op+2%2C5+miljoen+leerlingen
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Het is meestal onmogelijk om nepberichten (e-mail, SMS, ChatApp, social media en papieren post - zie plaatje) betrouwbaar van echte te kunnen onderscheiden.
Tegen phishing en vooral nepwebsites is echter prima iets te doen, zoals ik vandaag nogmaals beschreef in https://security.nl/posting/881655.
(Big Tech en luie websitebeheerders willen dat niet, dus is en blijft het een enorm gevecht).
@codinghorror @trending_bot Related, longer-term thought, in case it interests you: getting @letsencrypt to work with @opennic would put us on a path to set domain names free from the commercial system (after which we could try to get the EU to force browsers to support OpenNIC natively).
@zbrando @morrick @ueeu You’re not wrong.
But, looking ahead, we can do so much better than the commercial domain name system.
Commercial domain names are a gold standard example of artificial scarcity. A domain name registrar cost next to nothing to operate. It’s tiny rows of text in a database. It could easily be free to own your own domain name – a huge part of what constitutes identity – on the Internet.
In fact, a non-commercial service has been operational for 24 years. It would be trivial to regulate that browsers in the EU implement support for it and work together with, say, @letsencrypt to ensure it can handle TLS.
That would be an amazing addition to the commons and a future-proof way forward that we could lead on with next to no investment.
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My domain choices are terrible. Decided to drop yesterdays idea, and migrate to a slightly better cards address today:
New Zonemaster release by Afnic and the Swedish Internet Foundation Internetstiftelsen https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/news/new-zonemaster-release-by-afnic-and-the-swedish-internet-foundation/
Telefonie+websites: spoofing-risico
Zojuist heb ik https://www.security.nl/posting/874752/Telefonie%3A+geen+authenticatie (*) een stuk over bankhelpdeskfraude, en andere vormen van online oplichting, gepubliceerd.
Mijn advies: kijk in elk geval naar de hoge tabel onderin dat stuk met namen van nepwebsites gericht op de Nederlandstalige markt, en leer daarvan.
De mogelijkheden voor cybercriminelen om te variëren met "lijkt op" domeinnamen zijn bijna eindeloos. En deze groep cybercriminelen lijkt zich tot ".com" TLD's (Top Level Domains) te beperken.
Het is overigens ietsje lastiger om een nepsite met een ."nl" TLD dan bijv. ".com" te registreren. Belangrijker, als dat lukt worden ".nl" nepsites vaak, na een paar dagen, "uit de lucht gehaald". Maar je zal maar opgelicht worden in die paar dagen.
(*) Mocht de Redactie van security.nl(waar ik geen enkele andere relatie mee heb dan daar al jaren een account te hebben) ook deze bijdrage van mij verwijderen, een gearchiveerde versie (met nog 2 typfoutjes er in) vindt u in https://archive.is/7NjIC.
Meer info in de Alt tekst van onderstaand plaatje.
I am going to let go the domain name https://snow-on-gpu.online because it is too expensive. I refuse to pay so much for an art piece and will reconsider buying domain names for new projects in the future. After some thoughts I think this is a form of fetishism that refers to nothing but an expensive supermarket of words.
Related subject https://post.lurk.org/@raphael/113430303138340850
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