Netregistry founder Larry Bloch graces Melbourne IT board
Melbourne IT has appointed Netregistry founder and chief executive Larry Bloch as a new company director.
Melbourne IT has appointed Netregistry founder and chief executive Larry Bloch as a new company director.
Web hosting company, Melbourne IT, has purchased local rival, NetRegistry, in a cash and scrip share purchase agreement worth $50.4 million.
Following a month or speculation, Melbourne IT, has unveiled that its new chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director will be Martin Mercer, following the departure of Theo Hnarakis who stepped down on December 5.
Melbourne IT is close to announcing a new chief executive as outgoing boss Theo Hnarakis prepares to step down on December 5.
It’s every chief technical officer’s worst nightmare. When Bruce Tonkin, CTO for the world’s sixth largest domain registrar, Melbourne IT, woke in Melbourne on Wednesday, August 29, to learn some of his biggest clients, including the New York Times and Twitter, had been hacked, it was not a good start to the day. And a US-based reseller was responsible.
The volatile nature of the Internet was demonstrated once again last week when the New York Times was brought down by hacks.
Melbourne IT has revealed one of its overseas resellers was a victim of a “spear phishing” attack which allowed the Syrian Electronic Army to hijack the New York Times (NYT) and some Twitter websites.
One way that owners of major websites can mitigate the risk of their domains being hijacked like The New York Times' site was on Tuesday is to apply what is known as a registry lock on the domain, security researchers say.
The cyberattack that resulted in nytimes.com and some other high-profile websites being inaccessible to a large number of users Tuesday started with a targeted phishing attack against a reseller for Melbourne IT, an Australian domain registrar and IT services company.
Australia's first domain name registration company Melbourne IT has announced that its CEO Theo Hnarakis will step down later this year after more than a decade at the helm.
The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company's Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT.
Melbourne IT has sold its For The Record (FTR) business unit for $6.3 million to Record Holdings.
Melbourne IT has entered into a distribution partnership with Akamai Technologies.
Melbourne IT has sold its Digital Brand Services division to Corporation Service Company (CSC) for $152.5 million cash consideration.
Plans to reveal the outcome of its strategic operational review