Register.com investigating Photobucket DNS hijack

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Thu, 06/19/2008 - 5:58pm

Register.com is looking into the hijack of Photobucket's DNS records that redirected customers to an unrelated Web page this week.

"The Photobucket site was down for a very short time and was restored immediately when we became aware of the issue." Roni Jacobson, general counsel of Register.com, ...


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