Baidu has filed suit against its US-based domain registrar after a recent DNS records hack that redirected surfers towards a defaced page, instead of the Chinese search engine. The traffic hijack attack resulted from "gross negligence" on the part of domain registrars Register.com (no relation), a lawsuit filed by Baidu in New …

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Wednesday 20th January 2010 22:27 GMT Anonymous Coward

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I'm suprised that it doesn't have it's own DNS servers after all, wouldn't be the easiest way to ensure censorship and make updates quickly should any changes be needed.

Wonder if they are as keen to get to the bottom of the Gmail hacker(s) ?

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1. Thursday 21st January 2010 10:04 GMT transientcylon
  
  or...
  
  if this is some sort of petty retaliation for google's hissy fit?
  
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2. Thursday 21st January 2010 10:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  not their fault
  
  they have their own dns servers, but the problem lies with the registrars not dns servers. The dns servers were changed directly in the root domain server at registrar.com.
  
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Monday 25th January 2010 22:34 GMT Anonymous Coward

Me Too!

We had this same problem with GoDaddy and lost half our business. Although we had proof positive, the registrars just blow you off, unless you have enough $$ to sue. We lost our $$ in thier mistake.

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