ICANN Loses Control of Its Own Domain Names

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 4, 2008 @08:59PM 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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HaHa by soundguy · 2008-07-04 21:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Ha Ha
/nelson

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Re:Sophisticated ? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-07-04 21:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

ICANN, as far as I can tell, does not follow rules. Their one and only purposes seems to be to enrich the members of its board. As a result, we have a stagnant generic TLD system with new proposals, etc being designed to extract cash for them rather than benefit the world. I have no problem with them getting hacked -- throws a spotlight on their arrogance and corruption.
ICANN'T do anything to help the world because I am too busy getting paid.
URL by thedrx · 2008-07-04 21:46 · Score: 5, Funny

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/04/icann-pwned.html

Anyone else think the URL is hilarious?