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by hirako2000 1962 days ago
It's not an obvious problem to solve, but nobody would invest much in performing a hostile take over of a small domain. In the case of Perl.com it looks like a hostile takeover, of a popular domain, and it didnt cost them much to take it over I guess.
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I think it's naive to assume trolls wouldn't invest much time
Here [0] is an example of someone putting inordinate amount of effort to take down a tiny mastodon instance. If it would have been possible to take over a domain in a similar manner - it would have happened too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719793