Strong Advice Against Disclosure of Your TEL Domain Username and Password on Third Parties Services

I could observe in last few months, that a trend has developed and some developers ask TEL domain owners for username and password and blatantly abuse their privacy.


Following websites will ask you for your TEL domain username and password, although they are not connected with TELNIC as registry. Some of them don't even offer secure website connection. They disclaim all liability if your username and password is wrongly used. You will never know who has abused your password.


BEWARE OF FOLLOWING WEBSITES.

TelCP.Com -- Tel Control Panel

Offer SSL connection, but asks for username and password

Sri Lanka based company which asks for TEL domain username and password. There will be no recourse for you if your username and password get compromised, as you will not be able to sue and do anything due to distance from Sri Lanka.

We don't know of any privacy laws in Sri Lanka.

It is good that this website offers secure connection.
Owner of the website is ITNOSA (PVT) LIMITED and Mr. Placidus Fernando.

TEL Quick Update, by KNOWLEDGE PROBE INC. Mr. Mark Kolb

Website has no secure connection, and asks for your private passwords

This website promotes the service in the manner "Are you often tired of logging in to your CTH system for a quick or simple change? "

Don't mistake this services for your official TEL hosting panel. As it is not.

This website is NOT secured, your username and password can be read by someone in your house, someone outside of house if you have unencrypted wireless connection, by people in your provider's company, and by numerous other people in at last 8-10 various large companies where your information passes through.

The website shall be immediately secured by SSL certificate for encrypted connection. By using the website without encryption is similar like transferring your credit card informations in plain text, without encryption.

Owner: KNOWLEDGE PROBE INC., responsible person Mr. Mark Kolb.

Bulk Update of Your TEL Domain

Website has no secure connection, and asks for your private passwords

Bulk update of your TEL domain, but you don't know how secure is their software.

There are numerous reports how a PHP software has been cracked. The website is NOT SECURE.

Your username and password will be transferred without encryption and is open to compromise by many many people not known to you and to the provider.

Owner: KNOWLEDGE PROBE INC., responsible person Mr. Mark Kolb

TEL Bulk Logos

Website has no secure connection, and asks for your private passwords

This website asks you for username and password of your TEL domain.

The website is NOT SECURE.

Owner: KNOWLEDGE PROBE INC, responsible person Mr. Mark Kolb.

False Claims by Stats4.Tel Website and Mr. Mark Kolb

Website falsely claims that user will download statistics directly from TELNIC

http://www.stats4.tel/ -- falsely claims that you as user will download your TEL domain statistics directly from TELNIC.

stats4.tel



Owner: KNOWLEDGE PROBE INC., responsible person Mr. Mark Kolb

http://www.mytel.me/poptel.swf

Website has no secure connection, and asks for your private passwords

Another "smart" service which asks you for username and password of your TEL domain, in order to have your TEL domain "populated by contextual content". Website is NOT secure, and you will compromise your username and password to provider.

Owner: KNOWLEDGE PROBE INC., responsible person Mr. Mark Kolb

Good Sheep of TEL Domains

Secure Websites Which Don't Asks Your For Passwords -- RECOMMENDED!

There are third party services for review of your statistics, such as http://www.telsap.com/download.html which will not ask you for username and password, but which software you can use on your own computer.

Such is also this service: http://www.dtsanalyzer.com/ --as they don't ask you to compromise your username and password.

Statement by Mr. Mark Kolb: "passwords are not personal information"

Beware of insecure websites and people which don't respect you

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Do you really wanna give your password to someone who does not respect your personal information?


And has no clue that passwords ARE personal information.

Telfeeder.Com -- Anonymous Service Asking For Your Passwords

Don't disclose your passwords to unknown people

Another service is: https://www.telfeeder.com/ -- this service has secured internet connection.

You can see if website is secured by watching the lock icon in your browser. TELFEEDER.COM is registered in anonymous manner -- and there is NO WAY currently to find out where is the company located and how is your username and password stored and used. STRONG DISADVICE!

TEL-Machine.Com

Website has no secure connection, and asks for your private passwords

http://www.tel-machine.com -- this is yet another similar service. Website is NOT SECURED, and you will have to disclose your username and password to third party company.

Owner: Movetec GmbH, responsible person Mr. Markus Zimmerli, from Switzerland.

Why some of those websites asks for your passwords?

Complain to Privacy Commissioner, Canada

The reason behind those irresponsible companies asking for your passwords is greediness. They are more interested in the money rather then in your privacy.

If they can get US $10 on advertising, they will not care of your password being transferred over insecure connection.

Further, they will often place "disclaimers" disclaiming all liabilities and their responsibilities for the loss or abuse of your passwords or your TEL domains.

Do you really wanna trust such websites?

Some of those websites are in Canada. If you find a website abusing your passwords, complain to the Privacy Commissioner in Canada.

http://www.priv.gc.ca/complaint/index_e.cfm

Don't reveal your usernames and passwords to third parties

Complain to Better Business Bureau in U.S. for U.S. Websites

We cannot know why TELNIC vouches for such services: http://telnic.org/tools-other.html

Your information can be compromised by other people cracking into their systems. Or by them, third party providers. Who are they?

Even if the provider claims to be "trusted", you as a domain name owner cannot know "who is the provider", "where is he", "how many people work with him", so you cannot know how many people actually have access to your private username and password.

You might be in breach of agreement with your registrar or your company, by giving out passwords.

It is similar like revealing username and password of your Google Mail account.

Ask yourself: would you like to give your username and password of a TEL domain just to anyone?

Ask yourself: would you like to give your username and password of a TEL domain just to anyone?

Such third party providers usually promise to "open source" their software, but until now, I could not observe any such open source. They try to earn bucks while compromising your username and password and deliberately making false statements.

What can you do?

Take Care About Your Security And Privacy

For security reasons:

1. CANCEL all such third parties' services.

2. IF YOU HAVE TO USE THEM, use them once, then change your username AND password; DO NOT USE ANY PROVIDER OFFERING UNSECURE CONNECTIONS!

3. Consider searching, asking and ordering of a software which you can run on YOUR OWN computer, without compromising your username and password..

4. Don't use same username and password on your TEL domain which you give out to such third parties, and your other TEL domains or Facebook or Gmail accounts -- as third party or the cracker into their system, can misuse your password and misuse your facebook, twitter and other accounts.

DO NOT GIVE YOUR PASSWORDS TO NO THIRD PARTY

We advise strongly AGAINST disclosure of your username and password to third party services, not connected with TELNIC.

A third party provider for TEL domains which asks you EVER for username and password, is not interested in service TO YOU, but in service FOR HIM/HER. If he would be interested for a service TO YOU -- you would be getting FREE OR PAID SOFTWARE; which you run yourself on your computer without compromising your username and password.

It is a long Internet practice to KEEP YOUR USERNAME / PASSWORD SECRET. Small business companies CANNOT SIMPLY afford the true security of usernames and passwords, due to a limited knowledge and resources.

Providing a third party system which asks for username and password of number of TEL domain owners, over UNSECURED CHANNEL is utterly irresponsible. Such third parties are interested more in a few bucks which they get from advertising, rather than in securing your privacy and making sure that your username and password is not revealed over UNSECURED channel. Finally, a SECURED CHANNEL cost them at least US $30 -- that much is YOUR USERNAME/PASSWORD NOT WORTH TO THEM.

Search for better, safer solutions

And other software developers will soon release new software which you can run on your desktop computer or mobile devices, that you can control your TEL domains without compromising your username and password. One such software for mobile devices is: http://telnic.org/tools-iphone-mytel.html -- it will not compromise your username and password.

Similar software will soon appear on various Internet websites, watch http://freshmeat.net and http://sourceforge.net for new software to appear.

Complain to Canadian Privacy Commissioner

If your passwords has been abused, complain to Canadian Privacy Commissioner

Anyone affected by third party service providers from Canada, compromising TEL username and password and not making it by the law, is advised to make a complaint to Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner, by filing a privacy breach or complaint here:

Complain to Better Business Bureau

If your passwords or personal information has been abused or mishandled, complain to Better Business Bureau:

http://www.bbb.org/

http://www.bbb.org/canada/