How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by eridius on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:12AM (#7142656)

GoDaddy requires 6 digits, but the agent let the attacker guess 2 of them (repeatedly, until he got it right). That's truly awful.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by fredsted on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:21AM (#7142680)

I thought everyone knew not to use GoDaddy after the SOPA incident. Hopefully this will convince more people to move their domains to a domain registrar that cares about its customers.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by Osiris on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:30AM (#7142711)

SOPA was from one person (in-house counsel) and was not and is not the sentiment of c-level management or any employees I've ever talked to.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by yajoe on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:59AM (#7142802)

totally off-topic, but because of the SOPA nonsense I've slowly moved my 40-or-so domains to namecheap during 2013 when their renewals came up. I was otherwise ambivalent about which DNS service/registrar to use before that incident...

but thank you for helping the guy get his twitter account back and fixing up the internal controls.

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Re:How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username by squigs25 on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:26PM (#7145740)

Sometimes you're forced to use godaddy.

I wanted a domain that had been registered with godaddy, so I needed to backorder it through them, and register it through them.

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