ICANN loses control of its own Domain Names->
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NotNormallyNormal writes "CBC.ca picked up an AP story about ICANN recently losing control of their domain names ICANN.com and IANA.com for about 20 minutes on Thursday. A domain registrar run by the group transferred the domains to someone else. As quoted by ICANN about the situation:
"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. The domains in question are used only as mirrors for ICANN and IANA's main websites. The organizations' actual websites at icann.org and iana.org were unaffected... ...It would appear the attack was sophisticated, combining both social and technological techniques, but was also limited and focused.""
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"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. The domains in question are used only as mirrors for ICANN and IANA's main websites. The organizations' actual websites at icann.org and iana.org were unaffected...
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