Security News > 2020 > April > Microsoft prevents Domain of Danger from falling into miscreants' paws by forking out cash for corp.com

Victims of early versions of Microsoft's Active Directory can breathe a sigh of relief: the software giant has snapped up the infamous corp.com domain.

The sale potentially put hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs at risk due to some iffy Active Directory settings around the time of Windows 2000 Server and equally iffy practices at companies setting up Microsoft's then latest and greatest.

As an internal domain name, using something not owned by the company was pretty bad practice, but not immediately disastrous.

The previous owner of the domain, Mike O'Connor, told Krebs on Monday that Microsoft had agreed to purchase it for an undisclosed amount.

Microsoft has long discouraged customers from using domain names that they do not own but, as anyone tasked with maintaining an ancient Active Directory setup will attest, unpicking the mess created decades ago is not for the faint of heart.

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