The domain registration belonging to Perl.com, the popular source of news and information about the Perl programming language, has reportedly been stolen.
Brian Foy, a Perl expert who has written several books on the subject, revealed on January 27 that the domain has been taken over by an unknown actor.
Huh, it looks like there was some snafu with the https://t.co/cM17zmX6Km domain registration and now it's registered under someone else. If you know how to fix this sort of thing, we'd like your help.
— brian d foy (@briandfoy_perl) January 27, 2021
He wrote on Reddit: “We’re still trying to unravel this and I can’t get into details. However, it looks like there was an account hack.
“I don’t know how long that would take to rewind.”
Foy added: “The perl.org and perl.com domains are unrelated and have different rightful registrants, so this doesn’t affect perl.org.”