Comments on: RubyOnRails.org Domain Derailed By Hacker? (Updated: It Was Just Parked)

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homepage — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:19:42 +0000

There should be a death penalty for hackers… maybe that would stop them. If you have talent, do something good with it.

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By: Avinash

Avinash — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:39:13 +0000

Well said Anon. This is shoddy reporting at its classic best. Just imagine the kind of damage such reporting can cause. Frightening indeed !

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Ruby no more on rails: Do Hackers get hold of RubyOnRails.org domain? — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:30:38 +0000

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» Ruby on Rails deragliato? — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:01:51 +0000

[...] diversa la notizia, infondata, lanciata da TechCrunch sull’opera di un cracker. La scadenza del dominio era il 19 aprile e probabilmente presto [...]

By: taelor

taelor — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:25:00 +0000

you guys really outta put a a redaction or something. this was pretty absurd. thanks for turning what I used to think as a stimulating field (tech news) into some sort of gross celeb gossip. your worse than people magazine

By: albioner

albioner — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:53:02 +0000

Sorry, TC. If you don’t know the difference between ‘reporting’ and ‘guessing’ by now, then you lose. I’m off, and your feed is off my list…

By: ThorArthurZZD

ThorArthurZZD — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:00:08 +0000

@Derek,
Shut the f%&k up. Anon is right. The article is outright stupid.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:38:31 +0000

so fix your story until he does. You look like an idiot reporting on it.

By: Feedmyapp

Feedmyapp — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:43:30 +0000

Anyway now the Rails site is back.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:20:15 +0000

I must say, this is very poor on TC’s side. The author (in his tweets) even refuses to take responsibility for his misinformation.

Facts: Author “claims” hacking. His only “source” is someone who isn’t part of the RoR team.

Fine mistake made, but at least update the article properly. Anyone reading this for the first time still sees this:
“Oops, something went wrong. Looks like a hacker somehow got hold of the domain name RubyOnRails.org and slapped a page filled with ads on it.”

Update the article up top and move on.

By: Joel Strellner

Joel Strellner — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:35:20 +0000

We just had enom not renew a domain of ours and had to manually renew it again (was set to auto renew), so I’m not sure if they are the best choice either…

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Ruby on Rails, problem me domainin | eklipsi.com — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:24:13 +0000

[...] i ndryshëm lajmi, i pa vërtetuar, dhënë nga TechChrunch mbi situatën në fjalë, supozohej të ishte veprim i një cracker-i. Skadimi i domain-it ishte 19 [...]

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rubyonrails.org domain expired? really? | Anuj Gakhar's Blog — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:27:04 +0000

[...] I immediately googled for this and found this TechChrunch Article. [...]

By: Ivan Lazarte

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:56:03 +0000

LOL. Good job DHH. Classic. I really believe it was the registrars fault. No seriously, I do. This is me believing.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:46:03 +0000

Seriously Techcrunch, massive fail. This is very disappointing. Hopefully you do not use such shoddy journalism on all your articles.

By: YouTellMe

YouTellMe — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:49:37 +0000

Fail.
Techcrunch fail.

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est — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:33:20 +0000

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By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:24:33 +0000

Give it a rest you stuffy old bastard. Now you must feel important !

By: Webbies

Webbies — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:12:51 +0000

Trusting namecheap with your domains is the problem.

Choose, Enom.com (US) or Rebel.com (non-US)is a much better/safer choice IMO.