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Millions from around the world have donated to help earthquake victims in Haiti. With people so readily giving money, it’s no surprise that domain scammers are trying to take advantage of the situation. As is the norm after all disasters in the Internet age, unscrupulous con artists are registering domains and setting up fake donation sites.

The FBI sent out an alert today warning Americans of this danger. It said to watch out for spam emails and verify the legitimacy of non-profits before donating. According to the Associated Press, more than 400 domains related to the disaster have been registered since Monday. Most of them will likely be used for illegitimate purposes. Unfortunately, most of these scammers will probably never be tracked down and caught.

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]]> .HT domain still operational after earthquake https://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/890/ht-domain-still-operational-after-earthquake/ Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:16:21 +0000 http://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/889/ht-domain-still-operational-after-earthquake/ haiti earthquake
The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti earlier this week has killed 50,000 people and destroyed much of the capital. Currently, access to the nation is mainly limited to the few relief planes that can get in. Amid this tragedy there is at least some hope for Haiti, as its DNS seems to have made it through the disaster in one piece.

Here is what we know, according to ICANN:

  • The administrators of the .HT ccTLD survived unharmed.
  • Haiti’s IT infrastructure is heavily damaged, but the domain system is still working for most.
  • Work is underway to reroute the country’s Internet traffic through the Dominican Republic.

A working telecommunications system is vital to relief crews in a natural disaster. If the domain system and other important communication links had been destroyed, thousands of additional lives would probably have been lost.

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