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I am a publisher located in Europe and my life's work is all in one .com domain. I often wonder how secure the ownership of a domain is and if there are any steps necessary to secure it. My registrar requires a signed document to transfer domains. By post or scanned. But how secure is that? How would they know if I sent the document or somebody else?

And what if somebody hacked the registrar? Are there global mechanisms to undo wrongful domain transfers?

Do you guys think our emails on Yahoo mail are safe after this? I will backup mine as soon as I find the time to do so.

Yahoo has a terrible track record regarding emails. I already lost one due to inactivity. They gave it to somebody else. That somebody probably has access to several of my accounts now. On websites where I used my Yahoo address and then just forgot about it.