[LINK] ICANN loses its own domain

[David Goldstein]

It might be worth clarifying the news item referred to below by checking out ICANN's statement on this.

David



----- Original Message ----
From: Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com>
To: link at anu.edu.au
Sent: Sunday, 6 July, 2008 10:29:14 PM
Subject: [LINK] ICANN loses its own domain

Hilarious.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/icann-misplaces-own-domain-name/2008/07/06/1215282624733.html
ICANN misplaces own domain name
July 6, 2008 - 11:15AM

This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the 
Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, 
said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees 
got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else.

The attack was quickly noticed, and ICANN's domain names were 
restored within 20 minutes. However, because many Internet 
directories retain information for a day or two, visitors could have 
been redirected to an unauthorised site for longer.
[snip]


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