Tell HN: How to Respond to a Domain Takeover
After having my domain hijacked today I'd like to share an incident postmortem just in case you find yourself in the same situation (swearing at your terminal output at 10am on Friday morning when your website is down). 9:58am I can no longer deploy to production 10:15am Finished troubleshooting all services, no problems identified 10:16am nslookup resolves to some random IP address instead of my prod server (WTF!!!!!!) 10:20am Log into registrar and find out they replaced my custom DNS servers with their own and added records to serve a "Parked free courtesy of GoDaddy" page with ads and a button that says "Get This Domain" 10:30am Changed my domain on the registrar website back to my custom DNS servers 10:32am Changed my password on the registrar website 10:38am Got told by GoDaddy support they didn't have anything to do with this and it was my fault it ha
Why it failed
After having my domain hijacked today I'd like to share an incident postmortem just in case you find yourself in the same situation (swearing at your terminal output at 10am on Friday morning when your website is down). 9:58am I can no longer deploy to production 10:15am Fin
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- netsectoday
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews