Karl, How would that have changed things? This is not where the registration expired, but it is where someone fell for the providing credentials to the account or Network Solutions, again, fell for a scam. I can see why a limit on term length. What if the owner dies? Or the the business goes under. It is not like we can trust the registrar or ICANN to do anything about dead domain names. We can't trust them to do anything about falsified Whois information. On Fri, August 23, 2019 8:32 am, Karl Auerbach wrote:
One has to wonder - why is it still ICANN policy to limit domain name contract terms to a maximum of ten years?
      --karl--
On 8/23/19 7:58 AM, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond wrote:
With all the safeguards in use, that's really surprising. Best,
Olivier
On 23/08/2019 16:46, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
https://www.sonomanews.com/home/a1/9924307-181/hospital-website-hijacked-by-...
Sonoma Valley Hospitalâs website was hacked earlier this month, forcing the change of its URL and email addresses, hospital officials announced last week.
On Tuesday, Aug. 6, at 6:30 p.m., the hospitalâs domain svh.com <http://svh.com> was âmaliciously acquired,â said Celia Kruse de la Rosa, the hospitalâs communications director.
Hospital CEO Kelly Mather added: âThe hijacking of our domain name was surprising and we are finding out, not unusual for highly valuable three letter domain names such as âsvh.com.ââ
When it became apparent that the hospital would not get the domain name returned, they âbegan migrating all internet connectivity to the new and current domain: sonomavalleyhospital.org <http://sonomavalleyhospital.org> (web) and @sonomavalleyhospital.org <http://sonomavalleyhospital.org> (email),â de la Rosa said.
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