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ICANN Loses Control of Its Own Domain Names

Posted by Soulskill on from the heal-thyself dept.

NotNormallyNormal writes "CBC picked up an AP story about ICANN recently losing control over two of their domain names on Thursday, June 26. A domain registrar run by the group transferred the domains to someone else. ICANN's press release had this to say: 'As has been widely reported, a number of domain names, including icann.com and iana.com were recently redirected to different DNS servers, allowing a group to provide visitors to those domains with their own website. It would appear the attack was sophisticated, combining both social and technological techniques, but was also limited and focused.' Comcast has had similar troubles lately as well."

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  1. mod 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    lea7ing the play Lite is straining Mr. Raymond's

  2. Now, if someone can text message flood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some cell phone execs, although I'm sure they have unlimited plans (or simply don't pay phone bills), so they can see the dangers of having to pay for incoming texts with no way to shut them off.

    1. Re:Now, if someone can text message flood by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Some cell phone execs, although I'm sure they have unlimited plans (or simply don't pay phone bills), so they can see the dangers of having to pay for incoming texts with no way to shut them off.

      Wouldn't that be a bit like trying to mail bomb a BOFH?

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  3. You pay for *incoming* messages? What the... by Hurricane78 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh... you live in a free market country... i see...

    Do you pay for incoming calls too? Yes? okay... hmmm...

    For incoming letters?

    Fuel for incoming cars?

    Nevermind.... all hail the industrial feudalism!

    (...here comes the -1, I don't get it / -1, I don't like you ;)

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  4. lastweeksnews by davidwr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I submitted this a week ago and a firehose reader modded it down quickly.

    What changed to make this important now if it wasn't important then?

    On a related matter, how many people want to mod this -1 quitchurbitchin?

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