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Someone with the ability to register .gov domains is trying to make a sneaky buck.
by kevmo314 7mo ago
Someone with the ability to register .gov domains is trying to make a sneaky buck.
- rationalist 7mo agoIt used to be anyone with a fax machine could register any .gov but they fixed that when there was a news report about it.
- afn 7mo agoI was curious about this, so for anyone else who’s interested, here’s a KrebsOnSecurity article from 2019 about how easy it was to fraudulently register a .gov domain: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-too-easy-to-get-a-gov-domain-name/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-too-easy-to-get-... I haven’t seen any follow-up reporting, but it looks like the process now requires some semblance of identity verification: https://get.gov/domains/before/ https://get.gov/domains/before/