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Ausregistry stores them in plain text, too. I had one for a domain I'd
planned to transfer a while ago.. went to the Ausreg page to get it sent
to me and I got the same password sent to me (so it's obviously not
regenerated when you request it). I think it's probably unfair to target
Melbourne IT specifically.<br>
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this old thread up - but I can confirm that MelbourneIT aren't alone in
storing domain auth passwords in cleartext - I've just received an email
from Europe Registry (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.europeregistry.com/">http://www.europeregistry.com/</a>)
with a domain auth password contained within it in cleartext.</div>
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__pbrmquotes="true" class="__pbConvBody">It occurs to me that some on
noggers may not have previously been aware
of this. But now that it's 'in the news', etc.
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