Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

References

The following points give further insight into the topics we have covered in this chapter, including internet addresses where you can find out more about domain names and related topics:

1. One example that springs to mind was a Canadian bitcoin exchange where the CEO used a purely fictitious name in the WHOIS record because both the exchange and himself personally were constantly under various forms of attack. The problem manifested through a unique combination of unfortunate events (don't they always?). The company lost access to their registrar account at roughly the same time that a hostile third party was attempting to hijack the same account, causing the then-registrar to put the account into "lockdown." The exchange had no ...