This nightmare scenario is, unfortunately, reality for at least 50 organizations – ones that I’ve been able to uncover – and I’m certain that there are many, many more. Each of these organizations has been a victim of a malicious alteration of their domain information – an alteration that added new machine names to their existing information, and allowed bottom-feeding scam artists to abuse their good reputation to boost the search-engine profile of their drug, app, “personal ad,” or porn sites.