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A slow heist by Chinese spammer/scammers to use a popular domain name. This is clever and in direct contrast to the usual gobbling up of domains for spam/scam p
by psim1 6y ago
A slow heist by Chinese spammer/scammers to use a popular domain name. This is clever and in direct contrast to the usual gobbling up of domains for spam/scam purposes as soon as they expire at the peril of a forgetful owner.
- indymike 6y agoWhy try to assign a nationality to the thieves if that is not known? Domain theft is not very clever (there's a record at every step) and very much reversible. Being the buyer of a stolen domain is a bad spot: you will lose the domain and your money, too.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoPerl.com seems like it might be connected to other things, perhaps the sale was just to hide something more nefarious? I don't know how many @perl.com email addresses there are but if people submit code using email as an identifier ... I'd guess there are second factors and such; and that in this case people now know to check for errant submissions/accesses. AFAIK there's nothing juicy to download from the perl.com domain itself?