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Of course, by 'they', I mean the fake development team that the hijacker of the site wanted to portray...

No passenger will fight with anything less than every fiber of their being to stop any hijacker now.

The only thing worse than an aircraft controlled by a hijacker is an aircraft piloted by no one at all because the security system locked out the legitimate pilots.

A hijacker could still buy the domain and send all the shortened links out there to his AdWords page.

If DNS is hijacked, the hijacker could also get valid SSL certificates (using MX records to get confirmation emails, etc).

The hijacker would have to also hijack all the Convergence peers for this to succeed, which is effectively very difficult.

Kim Zetter, for understandable narrative reasons, uses Gmail as an example of the kind of site that a CA-hijacker could compromise.

So, your answer is - if your domain does get hijacked, then you're out of luck unless you pay the hijacker?

They had no problem allowing the lead Achille Lauro hijacker safe passage to Egypt.

And in 2008 they release another Achille hijacker -- a murderer and PLO terrorist.

In fact, in today's CA environment, if the DNS hijacker is playing ball with a rogue CA, they could also spoof the SSL.

As a kind of food-for-thought question rather than a topic-hijacker, how much should cost of living be taken into account for your pricing?

All can be traced back to Komodia - technology developed by an Israeli firm, which describes itself as a "SSL hijacker".

From Wikipedia[1]: "Vosteran is a browser hijacker that changes a browser's home page and default search provider to vosteran.com.

This may seem “cumbersome,” but that is the point; if the domain name is valuable to you, you would be well-served to use product that safeguards against making it easy for a hijacker to gain access.