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Re:Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy... by peterapps on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:18AM (#22275207)
How does a domain get hijacked accidentally? Don't domain transfers take a few days and require approval from current domain owner?
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Re:Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy... by Qub3d on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:39PM (#22277076)
The blog post states that the domain was erroneously flagged as belonging to a botnet system by a German law enforcement org, which took control of the domain to "sinkhole" what they assumed was botnet traffic.
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Re:Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy... by OJFord on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:56AM (#22275302)
Presumably the approval was the accident. (Or not renewing yet, so perhaps no approval necessary.)

Also, 'transfer locks' are a good idea, but not supported by all TLDs.

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