Fellow Blogger David Airey Gets Hacked
Dealing with comment spam, overt and on the fringe, is a daily nuisance that nearly every blogger has to deal with. Recently, however, fellow blogger David Airey was the victim of something much worse than comment spam: David was the victim of a domain name thief.
This attack was much more damaging than comment spam because the attacker managed take over David’s domain through a standard domain transfer. David details the problem in his December 19th post at his new domain www.davidairey.co.uk.
Update any links you have to reflect David’s new domain name
David has asked fellow bloggers to spread the word about his new domain, and to please update any links to his old domain (www.davidairey.com) to his new domain (www.davidairey.co.uk). On the surface, the request to update links sounds like a lot of work; however, think of what you’re giving to the malicious domain thief if you don’t update your links — free external links. To sit and do nothing practically rewards the attacker for his/her actions. Therefore I strongly urge anyone that has a link on their site that points to David’s old site to update it to reflect his new site URL www.davidairey.co.uk and to also update all of the site links that might be included in any comments David might have left on your site. Remember, if you sit back and do nothing, you’re giving away free external links to a domain name theft.
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Luckily, David has since managed to get his domain back and has decided to use it as his default domain. However, this should be a lesson to all to not be dependant on free services for matters pertaining to business. If David’s hosting account was not tied to his Gmail address, this whole situation would likely have been avoided.
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Did he get his domain back or is he still using the .co.uk domain.I think this couldn’t happen unless the hacker hacked his godaddy account or his email account.Maybe has made a domain transfer and accepted the transfer after hacking his mail id??
Never take the cheap option when it comes to your site security. You get what you pay for.
Hi Jim, I don’t believe David was taking the cheap option. I happened a while back so I don’t recall all of the details but I believe the root of the problem started with his GMail account getting hacked. And we all know how many people use GMail.
Thanks for the comment.