The strongest countermeasure I know of is registry locking, which is explained very clearly in this Cloudflare blog post.
I decided to see whick domains are locked, just testing some big names.
I used Network Solutions' online Whois, and only included the Status: fields for each domain.
The domain registrar in question was unable to secure their servers to a level desired by EC-Council and during this period, the domain registrar was exposed at least 2 more times. As such, EC-Council sustained an outage while moving the entire domain to another provider. Simultaneously, the EC-Council security team instituted additional countermeasures to other EC-Council systems within their direct control and began strengthening other security measures organization-wide.If anyone has any idea what that means, my hat's off to you. EC-Council seems unable to communicate in English. It is possible that they actually understand something about security, but I don't think anyone will ever be able to tell, because of their impenetrable diction.
However, they seem to have actually improved their security; here's what I found.
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited Domain Status: renewPeriod
Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: serverDeleteProhibited Status: serverTransferProhibited Status: serverUpdateProhibited
Domain Status:
Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Status: serverDeleteProhibited Status: serverTransferProhibited Status: serverUpdateProhibited
No status records
Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: serverDeleteProhibited Status: serverTransferProhibited Status: serverUpdateProhibited
No status records
No status records
Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: serverDeleteProhibited Status: serverTransferProhibited Status: serverUpdateProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Status: serverDeleteProhibited Status: serverTransferProhibited Status: serverUpdateProhibited
No status records
No status records
No status records
No status records
No status records
No status records
Status:OK