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New York's Oldest ISP Gets Domain-Jacked

Posted by michael on from the no-respect-for-their-elders dept.

Howard Roark writes "Panix, the oldest commercial Internet provider in New York, had its domain name 'panix.com' hijacked by persons unknown. The main effect on users is that mail sent to panix's customers is being routed to a bogus mail server run by the hijackers."

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  1. Obligitory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd like to jack your domain, if you're servicing my backbone.

  2. PROFIT by killa62 · · Score: 2, Funny

    1 steal domain 2 sell it back 3 ??? 4 PROFIT!!!

  3. Re:Total Hypocrisy, Michael by barc0001 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, well I got in a pissing match with an AC troll. Guess I get what I deserve.

    Way to not get it, guy.

  4. Re:It's not just Censorware by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Funny

    I like him.

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  5. Local Action by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone in Melbourne with a baseball bat, who wants free drinks the next time they visit New York, want to go "knocking" on MelbourneIT's door?

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  6. Re:Oz Time atm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, that will give them about a 36 hour response time. Nice.

  7. Re:Rogue registrars? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What's particularly scary is that melbourneIT.com isn't open on the weekends, period (though oddly enough they transferred the domain first thing on Saturday, hmmmm) and won't do anything to help.

    Q: Why is Tasmania moving closer to Australia?
    A: Because Melbourne sucks.

    "Melbourne is the arse end of the world" - Jerry Seinfeld.

  8. Re:it's worse than that... by SilverspurG · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's called Goodwill.

    Does that still exist? Everything is about the law these days.

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  9. They are really old by EssenceLumin · · Score: 2, Funny
    Near the bottom of the page it says -

    We started in 1989, before the advent of the Internet.

    Who knew?

  10. Re:Already contacted people by phayes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your sig forks a process per file, how inefficiant...
    Try using:
    `find / -name "*your_base*" -print | xargs chown us:us`

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