Afterword

ThimphuTech was the first technology blog in Bhutan. We started writing it in 2009, just as broadband and mobile internet started to take off. (Although internet in Bhutan was launched in 1999, it was either super-slow or super-expensive, and was only used by a selected few).

In the blog, we wrote about technology and food, but also about plenty of other stuff. The blog became popular and influential in Bhutan. A companion bi-weekly column -- Ask Boaz -- was published for many years in the Kuensel, Bhutan's national newspaper. (The complete Kuensel columns are available as an ebook, Blogging with Dragons).

We stopped updating the blog when we left Bhutan in 2014, but the information within the posts can still prove useful, and thus we decided to keep it online.

We thank all our readers.
Tashi Delek,
Boaz & Galit.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Bhutan's domain registration website hacked

DrukNet's Network Information Center (NIC), www.nic.bt, was recently hacked. The website is an important server, displaying information about all .bt domains. Internal databases hold crucial information, including domain name ownership.

We are hoping that DrukNet's Domain Name Server (DNS) security was not breached. DNS is the service that translates domain names (such as www.health.gov.bt) to Internet numerical address (202.144.157.196). Hacking Bhutan's DNS servers could mean a very serious security problem.



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