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ICANN Blames Register.com for Hack

July 8, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Searching for explanations for last month's high-profile hack, a ICANN (icann.org) spokesperson said that the site hijacking of several of its domains was due to a security leak at the registrar that manages those sites - identified as Register.com (register.com).

ICANN Struggles With Transparency

ICANN has made major strides towards increasing its transparency, but the point about openness and transparency is that you do it all the time, not just when its convenient or when the results won't challenge you. In that regard we find it interesting that ICM Registry's precedent-setting call for an Independent Review Panel has not seen the light anywhere on ICANN's website. ICM Registry, you will recall, was the applicant for the .xxx TLD, and due to interference by governments and some spinelessness by ICANN management ICANN's approval was reversed. ICM has chosen to become the first entity in history to attempt to use ICANN's Independent Review Process, something that ICANN touts as being a safeguard of its accountability but which some independent experts see as somewhat biased against the challenger.

If ICANN Can't Even Control Its Own Domain Names...

ICANN has been something of a joke. Charged with managing top level domain names, the organization has done a lot more to annoy users and force them to keep buying new domain names at high prices than do anything constructive in managing TLDs. And now it turns out that even ICANN can get spoofed. Hoaxers convinced ICANN's own registrar to hand over the controls for two of its main websites: ICANN.com and IANA.com, allowing each to be redirected elsewhere briefly. While ICANN was able to regain control over both domains within 20 minutes, the ease with which both were hijacked suggests that perhaps a more constructive use of ICANN's time, rather than coming up with new TLDs that cost too much money, would be to come up with better ways to prevent such hijackings -- and better ways to deal with such hijackings if you don't happen to be ICAN

ICANN Domains Hijacked

The Associated Press reports that ICANN, the California company in charge of the Internet's addresses -- apparently can't even keep track of its own. According to ICANN, they lost control of the ICANN.com and IANA.com domains when an Internet registration company it oversees was tricked into transferring the domain names to someone else. ICANN only lost control of the domains for around twenty minutes or so, though the problem impacted users for several days.

ICANN Asked To Shut Down "Worst" Chinese Registrar

Ian Lamont writes "Anti-spam service Knujon has released reports highlighting how certain registrars in the US and abroad have consistently failed to live up to certain WHOIS-related obligations under ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) — specifically, the requirement that people or company registering domains provide valid contact information. Now the firm is requesting that ICANN shut down the worst alleged offender, Xinnet Bei Gong Da Software. According to Knujon, none of the WHOIS records in a sample of 11,000 alleged spam sites registered through Xinnet and reported by Knujon to ICANN's Whois Data Problem Report System were corrected in a six-month period ending in May 2008 — and the Chinese registrar continues to register about 100 spam sites per day.

ICANN Opens Door For Crazy Domain Names Like Crap.Crap

ICANN has just made a decision that goes beyond allowing .xxx to be a top level domain; they're allowing all words to be top level domains. That means you're going to see domains like fuck.shit, shit.shit, shit.fuck, whatisthisshit.fuck, and so forth. What's not allowed is domains that conflict with trademarks (.pepsi was the example), too similar to current top level domains, or names associated with countries or governments (juicy.turkey). Companies will also register their products and services, leading to really annoying domains like pleaseplayyour.ps3pleaseplease, or dontyouwantanother.ipod. Nice one, ICANN. Nice one. [USA Today]

ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrar

As we commented on, ICANN, the group that manages top-level domain (TLD) naming systems for the web, recently had several of its domains hijacked by a Turkish hacking group. ICANN has now commented that the hijacking was due to a security breach at the registrar that manages those URLs. From ICANN’s site:

Register.com Offers New Service

June 25, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain registrar and web hosting provider Register.com (register.com) announced on Wednesday it has launched an affordable shared hosting service (register.com/product/hosting.rcmx)Â for small businesses that offers large space allocations, as well as layered unique features and functionality.Â

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."

ICANN expands top level domain name options

ICANN expands top level domain name options In what is seen as the biggest expansion to Internet domain name space yet, the ICANN yesterday approved a plan to introduce new top-level domains along with the option of applying for customized ones. In other words, customers will soon be able to choose top level domains that are more descriptive or specific such as .free, .travel, and .tech instead of settling for existing ones such as .com, .net or .edu.

ICANN says registrar was hacked

Two weeks after ICANN’s own domains were hijacked by Turkish hackers, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says it was its registrar — not ICANN’s servers themselves — that were attacked.

ICANN Approved Recommendation

The Board of ICANN approved a recommendation that could see a range of new names introduced to the Internet's addressing system. A final version of the implementation plan must be approved by the ICANN Board before the new process is launched. It is intended that the final version will be published in early 2009. This proposal allows applicants for new names to self-select their domain name so that choices are most appropriate for their customers or potentially the most marketable. There will be a limited application period where any established entity from anywhere in the world can submit an application that will go through an evaluation process.

Icann approves generic domains

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has approved a plan to allow users to register generic domain names.

Icann approves generic domains

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has approved a plan to allow users to register generic domain names.

Icann approves generic domains

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has approved a plan to allow users to register generic domain names.

ICANN to Hold Auctions for Disputes

August 19, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- International Internet regulation body ICANN (icann.org) announced this week that it will handle any disagreements over who wins the right to new generic top level domains by auction.

ICANN Requests an Independent Evaluator

MARINA DEL REY, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking to appoint an independent evaluator to undertake a review of the Root Server Stability Advisory Committee (RSSAC), a press release by ICANN stated.

ICANN Approves New Domain Names

The organization that oversees Internet addresses, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has approved a proposal to create an unlimited number of so-called “top-level� domain names. ICANN also approved a proposal to introduce domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts.

ICANN and IANA Websites Hacked

June 30, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – The websites of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) have been hacked, it was reported recently. Visitors to certain pages were redirected to an atspace.com (http://www.atspace.com/) account where they were greeted by the following message: "You think that you control the domains but you don't! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don't you believe us?"

Icann approves new domain names structure

The Board of the global internet domain registrar Icann approved a recommendation that could see a whole range of new names introduced to the internet's addressing system. A final version of the implementation plan must be approved by the Icann Board before the new process is launched. It is intended that the final version will be published in early 2009. Presently, users have a limited range of 21 top level domains to choose from, while this proposal allows applicants for new names to self-select their domain name so that choices are most appropriate for their customers or potentially the most marketable. It is expected that applicants will apply for targeted community strings such as (the existing) .travel for the travel industry and .cat for the Catalan community (as well as generic strings like .

Twilight Hack Defeats Wii Menu Update 3.3

Croakyvoice writes "Only days after Nintendo shipped Wii Menu 3.3, which stopped the Twilight Hack from working, the team lead by Bushing brought out a new version of the Homebrew enabling hack for the Nintendo Wii using the Zelda Game and a hacked save game."

Attack limited says ICANN

The attack on ICANN websites by Turkish hackers NetDevilz has been played down with ICANN saying the attack was 'limited'.

IANA and ICANN domains get hijacked

Instead of reaching the official websites of iana.com, iana-servers.com, icann.com, and icann.net, web requests were hijacked to a web page apparently put up by the miscreants responsible for hijacking them.

ICANN Blames Site Hijack on Registrar

The international organization that oversees the Web's top-level domain naming system said that the hijacking last month of several of its domains was the result of a security breach at the registrar that manages those URLs.

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