GoDaddy Employees Tricked Into Transferring Control of Crypto Firm Domains: R...
Cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com and crypto mining firm NiceHash were two of at least six firms that had control of their domains briefly transferred.
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The attackers used social engineering to defraud the GoDaddy staff. Yesterday, security researcher KrebsOnSecurity reported that several cryptocurrency platforms hosted by popular hosting provider Godaddy have been attacked over the past week.According to KrebsOnSecurity, the attacks began on or around November 13th on cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com.Liquid CEO Mike Kayamori said GoDaddy incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor.Kayamori added that the move allowed a malicious actor to change DNS records and thus, take control of a number of....
In contrast to traditional domains stored on behalf of users by custodians like Google Domains, .crypto domains are stored in crypto wallets. Major privacy-focused browser Brave is the latest browser to integrate support of decentralized domains by blockchain domain name provider Unstoppable Domains.Brave announced Thursday that its browser now provides native support for the crypto domain name company, allowing users to seamlessly access .crypto domains via desktop and Android applications.The new feature unlocks access to 30,000 decentralized websites and more than 700,000 blockchain....
Roger Ver demanded that GoDaddy remove Bitcoin.com from its sales listing. A few hours later, it appears to have been purged. Bitcoin.com — a cryptocurrency news, mining and wallet resource — is not for sale, according to entrepreneur and site owner Roger Ver. On Monday, Bitcoin.com appeared as a “premium domain” available for purchase on GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, for a minimum price of $100 million. The original sales listing of Bitcoin.com before it was removed by GoDaddy.Ver contacted GoDaddy on Twitter and demanded that the listing be removed immediately,....
The company said that users have registered over 2.5 million nonfungible token domains through its platform so far. On Wednesday, nonfungible token (NFT) domains platform Unstoppable Domains announced that it closed a $65 million Series A funding round at a valuation of $1 billion. Notable investors in the deal include Pantera Capital, Mayfield, Gaingels, Alchemy Ventures, Redbeard Ventures, Spartan Group, OKG Investments, Polygon, CoinDCX, CoinGecko, We3 syndicate, Rainfall Capital, Broadhaven, EI Ventures, Hardyaka, Sound Media Ventures, Boost VC and Draper Associates. Unstoppable said....
Almost 50% of the 91,130 votes answered that the fair price for 100 years of owning a five-letter .eth domain is under $100. As Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains became more popular, the conversation has steered toward .eth domain pricing and what is considered to be a “fair” price to guarantee ownership for 100 years. In a Twitter thread, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin asked the community what price they think is appropriate for registering and keeping ownership of a 5-letter .eth domain for 100 years. Buterin gave four options: under $100, $100–$999, $1000–$9999 and $10,000 or....