Security News > 2021 > February > Perl.com gets its domain back – normal service restored!

Two weeks ago, we wrote that the well-known and widely-used domain perl.com had been taken over by persons unknown.

You can imagine why, if the original owner had allowed their registration of the domain to lapse, either by mistake or because they felt they no longer needed it, a new owner might be keen to snap it up.

That's because perl.com had been registered for years to widely respected US-based Perl guru Tom Christiansen, and it hadn't expired.

So it was difficult to figure out how any domain registrar would have been inclined to believe that Christiansen, or tchrist as he is widely known, would voluntarily have relinquished the domain.

We don't know exactly how this takeover was achieved, and what collateral was used to convince the relevant domain registrars to authorise the transfer, but we are pleased to report that normal service has been resumed.

During the domain takeover, the perl.org site leapt to the rescue by serving the content of perl.com via perldotcom.

News URL

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/02/07/perl-com-gets-its-domain-back-normal-service-restored/