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It uses the HR service for things like employee contracts, payouts, and more.

Some time later, the business shuts down, and terminates thedomain.

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In other words, its up to the businesses to check that theyre not leaving residual data behind.

Ayrey notes a quick look through Crunchbase returns more than 100,000 domains that can be abused this way.

He suggested Google introduce immutable identifiers, while SaaS providers add cross-referencing domain registration dates.

To be clear: a fix wasnt necessary because a strong and appropriate protection is already in place.