Last week an ICANN registrar, Namejuice, went off the air for the better part of the day – disappearing off the internet at approximately 8:30am, taking all domains delegated to its nameservers with it, and did not come back online until close to 11pm ET. That was a full business day and more of complete […]
CIRA
Scam Alert: Phone calls pretending to be from CIRA
We have received an alert from CIRA (who oversees the .CA namespace) that a boiler room is calling people using the CIRA name with the objective of gaining remote access to the recipient’s computer: Dear Registrars, CIRA would like to notify all Registrars of a recent phone call security scam using the CIRA name that […]
