Security News > 2021 > January > The mystery of the missing Perl website

If you're a user of the venerable, powerful and popular open source programming language Perl, you'll almost certainly have visited its official website at some point, at: https://perl.org.

It looks as though the perl.com domain has been taken over, though by whom is hard to say, given that the domain registration is now hidden behind a DNS privacy-guarding proxy.

Quite what happened to the perl.com domain name we don't yet know.

The Register insists, on what it says is good authority, that until just before this latest change, the domain's contact details were listed publicly, with the admin of the domain given as well-known Perl luminary Tom Christiansen.

Whether the original registrants will be able to recover this domain remains to be seen, but we do know that whoever currently controls it now has it registered for a further decade.

If you're a Perl fan, we recommend you steer clear of the perl.com domain unless and until the All Clear is sounded on it.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/01/29/the-mystery-of-the-missing-perl-webite/