Concept.

Is 50 Dollar Investment per annum, really that difficult to invest in?

We all have been looking at the bigger picture and been trying to identify what is this big gap in the Hotel Industry in terms of Information Communication Technology, but how many of us have actually looked down at the microscopic problems that can bring down this industry on its knees?

How many of us have actually thought about our systems and websites being hacked by somebody? Yes, the industry has heavily invested in firewalls and all sorts of internet security that one can think of. However, how many of these companies have actually thought about a simple thing called a registry lock? Hardly any, especially when it comes to the hospitality sector all over the world.

What is this registry lock one might ask? It is that facility that sends out an intruder alert when someone tries to hack into your website or system and enables the person sitting at the other end of the system to identify who is trying to break into their systems. The concept is as simple as that of the security system used everywhere, it is just at a more virtual level. Currently, there are only two companies in the world that provide this service and that too at a very minimal cost of $50, the companies being VeriSign Inc.($6.95B) and NeuStar Inc. ($3.38B)

After doing a little digging I came across a fascinating data. The famous social networking website twitter had its DNS (Domain Name System) hacked in 2009 and very recently so did the New York Times by the Syrians. This time however, Twitter seemed to have dodged this bullet by simply investing a minimal amount of 50$ per annum. Since there are only 2 companies in the world that provide these services I propose that we create a department within the companies of the Hospitality and Tourism industry that not only focuses on general DNS and registry hacking, but especially more towards the grass-root issues that are very likely to arise in terms of reservation hacking, rearrangement of availability, altering of rates, etc.