Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale

ronjor · Feb 8, 2020

08 Feb 2020
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.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/dangerous-domain-corp-com-goes-up-for-sale/

mirimir · Feb 8, 2020

Microsoft will have to buy the domain. I mean, they've more or less pretended for ~25 years that they own it.

guest · Apr 7, 2020

Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t
April 7, 2020
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/microsoft-buys-corp-com-so-bad-guys-cant/

In February, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a private ccitizen auctioning off the dangerous domain corp.com for the starting price of $1.7 million. Domain experts called corp.com dangerous because years of testing showed whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows PCs at major companies around the globe.

This week, Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy the domain in a bid to keep it out of the hands of those who might abuse its awesome power.
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When he put the domain up for sale, I asked if he’d agree to let me know if and when he sold it.
On Monday evening, he wrote to say that Microsoft had agreed to purchase it. O’Connor said he could not discuss the terms of the deal, nor could he offer further comment beyond acknowledging the sale of corp.com to Microsoft.

In a written statement, Microsoft said it acquired the domain to protect its customers.

“To help in keeping systems protected we encourage customers to practice safe security habits when planning for internal domain and network names,” the statement reads. “We released a security advisory in June of 2009 and a security update that helps keep customers safe. In our ongoing commitment to customer security, we also acquired the Corp.com domain.”
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mirimir · Apr 7, 2020

I wonder how much he got for it.

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