ICANN Loses Control of Its Own Domain Names

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."

In a perfect world

[ShakaUVM]

In a perfect world, this would serve as a wake-up call to ICANN that the current domain name policies are hideously flawed.

Of course, their heads are so far up their collective asses, though, that they'll just say it was an awesome example of domain tasting by a third party, and all part of the glorious monstrosity they have birthed.

HaHa

[soundguy]

Ha Ha

/nelson

Here's something funny

[Anonymous Coward]

ICANT

haha do you get this? this is soooo funny! lets start doing this from now on! ru with me or agin me?

URL

[thedrx]

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

Anyone else think the URL is hilarious?

Re:Might be good for something

[Mike89]

Also, err, first post? How?

I hear a group of rogue trolls tricked ICANN into making Slashdot.org resolve to goatse.cx. You must've come back at the right time (or wrong time, depending on whether you're into the kind of stuff ;))

Re:URL

[Hatkirby]

It is! Very strange.... Now, you need to ask yourself, Did they pick that out themselves or did Wordpress (or whatever) generate it for them? *giggle*

Re:ICAN'T

[Hal_Porter]

ICANN needs to be ICANNED?

Thanks! Try the veal and tip your waitress!

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No problem!

[Veggiesama]

They had no problem getting the domains back. They just kept saying to themselves, "I think ICANN! I think ICANN!"

Re:HaHa

[Anonymous Coward]

Mentioning that those memes are redundant is redundant because it gets mentioned all the time ;)

Re:lastweeksnews

[ColdWetDog]

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?

Now it's old news and thus suitable for Slashdot. Before it was rough hot-off-the-press stuff.

We don't do that sort of thing here.