How to Protect Your Business From Nefarious Subdomain Hijacking
Domain, Maintenance Web, Web Security
A couple days ago while I was at a conference news came about that Network Solutions was hijacking unused customer subdomains to post links to their other websites. It is getting really hard to trust *many* online service providers.
A big tip for new websites is to use the www subdomain and 301 the non www version to the www version, for 3 reasons;
- If some nefarious group tries to add subdomains to your site you can easily spot them with a Google search for site:mysite.com -site:www.mysite.com (you could subtract other subdomains if you liked as well, likeso)..
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