Re:I bought netflix.soy
by saagarjha on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:07PM
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There was a dude a while back who registered google.com and gave it back when asked. I figured I might be able to do that and get a cool story to tell out of it.
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He never registered google.com. google.com is hard-locked at the registry level by Verisign and has very high security manual safeguards around any changes that are made to it.
There was a temporary bug in Google Domains that made it appear as if he had bought google.com, but he had not.
Re:I bought netflix.soy
by JMTQp8lwXL on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:20PM
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Are there other domains hard-locked at the registry level? I haven't heard of this behavior before.
Yes, there are many such registry-locked domains. Verisign and most other TLD operators sell it as a service. More info:
https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-regi... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/does-your-domain-have-a-...
It's a recommended best-practice for high-value sites, which the main website of any Fortune 500 company certainly falls under.
Re:I bought netflix.soy
by JMTQp8lwXL on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:29PM
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Oh, this is available to anyone with a .com using a major registrar. I had misunderstood this to be some special feature only available to the domains that make up massive amounts of internet traffic like google.com.
There is likely to be even more scrutiny placed on any changes to domain names that employees of Verisign immediately recognize, such as "google.com". I imagine that would have to go through a very high level person at Verisign. It's in everyone's vested best interests here to not screw up something so visible as that.
I think it was GoDaddy not Google Domains.