Let me tell you something we've been saying for over two decades in this industry: Choosing a domain registrar based on price is roughly equivalent to choosing a bank vault based on the color of the door. The sticker price on a domain is the least interesting number in this conversation. What matters is what happens when someone really wants your domain, or your ... View Post
Beyond Cloudflare: Building a Crypto-Native DNS Security Stack
Your crypto platform has Cloudflare. Your DNS runs on AWS Route53. You're spending $50,000 per month on security. And a DNS hijack still took you offline for six hours. The problem isn't wrong providers. It's infrastructure designed for a different threat model. Standard DNS was built for websites where downtime means lost revenue, but crypto platforms ... View Post
Bridging the Web3 Security Gap With Automated DNSSEC
[TL;DR] Your smart contracts are audited. Your testnet coverage is solid. Your bug bounty is live. None of it matters if an attacker can poison your DNS cache and silently reroute your users before they ever touch your blockchain. The front door to your Web3 platform is a 1980s naming protocol with no built-in authentication — and most projects leave it wide ... View Post
The Squarespace Migration That Took Down a Dozen Web3 Projects (And What Your Team Should Learn From It)
Think about the security stack protecting your crypto project right now. Smart contract audits — completed. Bug bounties — funded. Testnets — run. Multisig — deployed. Cold storage — configured. Endpoint detection — active. S OC monitoring — around the clock. Now consider this: The name your users type into a browser to access your protocol, ... View Post
Whois Privacy Shouldn’t Be an Upsell. Especially Not in Crypto
Why Whois Privacy Defaulted is the only responsible starting position for Web3 platforms --- You Secured Everything Except the Front Door Let me describe a scenario that plays out more often than it should. A DeFi protocol spends months preparing for launch. Smart contract audits... done. Bug bounty program... live. Multisig treasury controls... configured. ... View Post
DNS Hijacking 101: How Attackers Drain Crypto, DeFi & Web3 Platforms Without Touching a Smart Contract
You've hardened your servers. You've deployed endpoint detection. Your SOC team monitors alerts around the clock. But none of that matters when an attacker rewrites the internet's address book and redirects your traffic before it ever reaches your infrastructure. That's the quiet devastation of DNS hijacking. It's an attack class that doesn't breach your firewall so ... View Post






