Just found this out: while not all, some of Network Solutions’ servers had been hacked. Those especially affected were various mom-and-pop stores whose e-commerce web sites are hosted Network Solutions.
The servers that were hacked were used by Network Solutions in their e-commerce service offerings. Unfortunately some of them contained debit and credit card information.
These past few days I’ve seen and read a couple of so-called complaints over losing domain names because they lapsed or expired. Goes to show it still happens, despite various articles, measures and “advice” from other folks how to avoid that from happening.
Some of them even go as far as claiming their lapsed domain names were “stolen” from them. As in maybe taken from them without their knowledge and consent.
I finally got a chance to review this new proposal going around in ICANN. It’s called the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system.
In a nutshell, it calls for suspending or keeping offline a domain name. No web site, no email, nothing.
