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Domain Names Hijacking

How to fight against domain names hijacking?

Domain names hijack­ing are extreme­ly com­mon as the news reg­u­lar­ly shows.

How­ev­er, sim­ple and effec­tive mea­sures can be tak­en to secure your domain names upstream and pre­vent cyber­crim­i­nals from hijack­ing your domain names

Domain names Hijacking - Nameshield
Registry lock

Registry lock

This addi­tion­al secu­ri­ty sys­tem blocks the infor­ma­tion of a domain name direct­ly at the reg­istry lev­el and pre­vents the mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the hold­er, con­tacts or DNS servers. It also pre­vents the trans­fer and dele­tion of a domain name by lock­ing these oper­a­tions

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Two factors authentication (MFA – 2FA)

A domain name can be hijacked by a cyber­crim­i­nal who would fraud­u­lent­ly access your man­age­ment inter­face and for exam­ple, mod­i­fy the DNS to take con­trol of your name.

To fight against domain name hijack­ing, dou­ble authen­ti­ca­tion is effec­tive and sim­ple. This solu­tion strength­ens secu­ri­ty by allow­ing users to con­nect to their account by enter­ing a unique val­i­da­tion code (OTP, One Time Pass­word) sent to a mobile phone in addi­tion to their user­name and pass­word.

This two steps val­i­da­tion helps pro­tect a user’s account from unau­tho­rized access in case a third par­ty is able to obtain their pass­word

Two factors authentication - Domain names hijacking

Even if a mali­cious per­son man­ages to steal your pass­word, they can only log in if they have the user’s addi­tion­al val­i­da­tion infor­ma­tion.

This comes in the form of codes that only the user can obtain through their mobile phone or through an encrypt­ed sig­na­ture gen­er­at­ed from a secret secu­ri­ty key.

Of course, it is essen­tial to ensure that your man­age­ment plat­form is high­ly secured.

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