{"id":2874,"date":"2022-11-07T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:52:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:52:18","slug":"ie-registry-deletes-almost-1500-ie-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/2022\/11\/ie-registry-deletes-almost-1500-ie-names\/","title":{"rendered":".ie registry deletes almost 1500 .ie names"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ie-finaal.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ie-finaal.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ie-finaal-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Last week the Irish registry took almost 1,500 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnamed.net\/en\/extensies\/Ireland?\">.ie domain names<\/a> offline. All names were used for fraudulent purposes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process was always the same: .ie names that had recently expired but were still linked to social media accounts were re-registered. Once this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnamed.net\/en\/extensies\/Ireland?\">.ie domain name<\/a> was active again, a password reset took place for the social media accounts, after which they were hijacked from the previous owner. These accounts were then used for fraudulent purposes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnamed.net\/en\/extensies\/Ireland?\">.ie registration<\/a> involves a validation, but if you enter an address in Ireland, you already get pretty far. Once a contact has been validated by the Irish registry, it can also be easily reused for other registrations under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnamed.net\/en\/extensies\/Ireland?\">.ie extension<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Irish registry will now be vigilant in scanning every new registration and reactivation of .ie domain names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Irish registry took almost 1,500 .ie domain names offline. All names were used for fraudulent purposes. The process was always the same: .ie names that had recently expired but were still linked to social media accounts were re-registered. Once this .ie domain name was active again, a password reset took place for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}