Collaborate Disseminate
Microsoft Corp finally agreed earlier this week to acquire corp.com, a domain that poses security risks to Microsoft users due to a namespace collision issue. In February, security researcher Brian Krebs noted that the owner of corp.com was ready to se… Continue reading Microsoft buys ‘corp.com’ to protect customer infrastructure
As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com. It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe. Continue reading Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale