Register your own .mil Domain

JWSmythe writes " As reported in This Story at theregister.co.uk ,and on dailyrotten.com, it seems the US Department of Defense has dropped the ball. Not only can you register a .mil domain, but you can find "secret" domains that aren't publically known (the gov't uses security through obscurity?). I'm looking forward to hacker.mil, warez.mil, and porn.mil."

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Link to .mil Registry

[Motherfucking Shit]

http://www.nic.mil/dodnic. No, I didn't go poking around. If you've got bigger balls than I, perhaps you can link to the supposed admin area...

Aaahh

[Anonymous Coward]

I found this without having to click on this

Re:Aaahh

[Anonymous Coward]

And this is the domain registration link.

Won't work without a .mil email address, though.

Re:Aaahh

[Anonymous Coward]

This too, for reserving your very own netblock.

Re:Aaahh

[xintegerx]

Wow, I didn't believe it was there!

I found references to http://www.nic.mil/cgi-bin/whois on google. I was debating on trying /admin and etc instead, but didn't :)

Instead, I searched for

admin http://www.nic.mil

on Google, to verify the news. I ended up clicking on a web site that shows beginning web masters useful resources.

From there, I went to the site one level above, and from there clicked a link to view a document about standard run of the mill no big whoop procedures about webmastering (pretty useful if you want to be a contractor or write software and have it comply, I assume.)

BTW the security notice on this document is a link to army.mil's privacy policy, which says:

Information presented on Army Home Page is considered public information and may be distributed or copied unless otherwise specified. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

Anyway, on this document I was just describing, click the second link to the defenselink webmasters area.

There (which is also public according to their stated policy) you can click on "Domain Registration in the .mil domain" and see this
http://www.nic.mil/ftp/mgt/bul-9605.txt

These are just public info resources. army.mil's security policy says if you try to upload or change stuff, that's what they care about.

here it is...

[Anonymous Coward]

link

Here is the access list

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.nic.mil/visitors.txt and http://www.nic.mil/help

Since Slashdot if a Pussy-land...

[Q Who]

I did the process at the .mil NIC site.

After you fill all the forms, there's:

PAY ATTENTION!

This online program makes no changes to the WHOIS database.

The scope of this online program is to send the template to the e-mail address entered in the field below.

Once you receive the completed template, you must forward it to the appropriate point of contact for action.

The NIC will not process any templates until it receives this template (by email) from the domain administrator or service PMO.

So you are essentially filling a template, which you can do by hand as well, following the instructions here.

It lets you retrieve POC by a handle though. I don't know the access level of this information in USA, but this is quite odd, since it seems that the handles are assigned by initials, and are of progressively increasing length.

I also wonder where does this interface gets that data from... There's a DB somewhere, and it can be probably hacked via this interface.