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Comment by Zach_the_Lizard

10 years ago

>You can bypasss this by calling them - they only ask for 1 thing to authenticate you.

The domain for my personal site is shared with my family. My father registered the domain and all of the details in the account use his information. I had just created an AWS account and wanted to move the site's DNS to Route53.

I was able to call into the domain registrar and get exactly zero of the details correct, but they pointed the domain to Route53. It was hilarious how bad it was. I used my social, my name, my address, etc., none of which matched the info on file.

Even if I had used my father's info, it (except the social) would have been wrong because we lived overseas on a military base. When your system says Japan and someone from the US is calling, that should set off all sorts of alarm bells.