Zoho taken offline by domain registrar for phishing violations

CRM service Zoho disappeared from the internet after its domain registrar suspended it for failing to deal with phishing appropriately. TierraNet blacklisted Zoho.com after receiving complaints about phishing emails sent from Zoho-hosted accounts. This meant that many businesses were unable to access their documents, address books and emails, causing chaos for many. Zoho has said that in order to ensure such an occurrence is never repeated, it will become a domain registrar itself. Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu used Twitter to complain about his company being taken offline without warning, and said that TierraNet were difficult to get hold of to… [Continue Reading]