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Also a good idea, but likely a logistical nightmare as it involves many many different site owners/webmasters.
(hmm, do we still use that term? Feels like I haven't used it in a long time.)
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Security nerds have launched a Gofundme to buy back securityfocus.com, a domain that hosted the Bugtraq site and more than 120,000 links from the National Vulnerability Database that are now dead. -
Security nerds have launched a Gofundme to buy back securityfocus.com, a domain that hosted the Bugtraq site and more than 120,000 links from the National Vulnerability Database that are now dead.Yeah I think it might have been better to try to reach out to the owners first. According to archive org, it looks like Accenture had control over the domain already in 2023, unless the subdomain redirect messed up the archives somehow.
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Security nerds have launched a Gofundme to buy back securityfocus.com, a domain that hosted the Bugtraq site and more than 120,000 links from the National Vulnerability Database that are now dead.@en3py @HopelessDemigod @briankrebs
This is nothing that ICANN really has anything to do with. Unless an ICANN contracted party did something wrong or if this would fall under DNS abuse, but even then the registrar would be the one investigating. I don't think this is a case of either.
And as others already said, domain squatting is only the case if it infringes on the rights of others and us abusive. Selling domains itself does not constitute squatting.