Domain Registration Related News
Phishers suspected of eBay Germany domain
hijack
September 2004
eBay Germany and German domain registry
organisation DeNIC are to investigate a partly
successful domain hijacking scam that remained
unnoticed for at least a couple of hours.
On Saturday, visitors to eBay Germany were
redirected to a scam site hosted by IIntergenia
AG. The German internet provider says criminals
requested a DNS (domain name server) transfer for
several high profile sites, including Google.com,
Web.de, Amazon.com and eBay Germany. While most of
the DNS transfers were denied, somehow eBay
slipped through the net.
How the domain could have been transferred
without the consent of the existing holder remains
unclear. When a website decides to move its site
to a new server it has to tell the DNS service its
new IP address. Although this is largely an
automated process, several measures are taken to
prevent hijacking attempts.
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