ICANN loses own addresses: related news

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 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 loses own addresses

NEW YORK — This doesn't sound good: The non-profit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

Internet addressing agency ICANN loses its own addresses

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

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.

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.

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

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

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

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

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

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

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

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

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses (AP)

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

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

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

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

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

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

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

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

NEW YORK (AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

[07/03] Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

NEW YORK (AP) - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

[07/03] Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

NEW YORK (AP) - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Protesting that Tufts University's DHCP-based systems 'were not designed to facilitate forensic examinations,' but rather to ensure 'smooth operations and to manage capacity issues,' the IT Office at Tufts University has responded to the subpoena in an RIAA case, Zomba v. Does 1-11, by submitting a report to the judge (PDF) explaining why it cannot cross-match IP addresses and MAC addresses, or identify users accurately. The IT office explained that the system identifies machines, not users; that some MAC addresses have multiple users; that only the Address Resolution Protocol system has even the potential to match IP addresses with MAC addresses, but that system could not do so accurately. For reasons which are unclear, the IT department then suggested that the RIAA next time send them 'notices to preserve in

ICANN Loses Its Own Addresses

I know I shouldn’t laugh but damn, how embarrassing would this be? Thankfully they are taking “new” measures to prevent anything like this from happening in the future.

Inferring Personality From Email Addresses

paleshadows writes "Three researchers from the University of Leipzig published an interesting paper titled 'How extroverted is honey.bunny77@hotmail.de? Inferring personality from e-mail addresses' (PDF). From the abstract: 'Email addresses represent the thinnest slice of information that people receive from one another. Using 599 e-mail addresses of young adults, their self-reported personality scores and the personality judgments of 100 independent observers, it was shown that personality impressions based solely on e-mail addresses were consensually shared by observers. Moreover, these impressions contained some degree of validity. This was true for neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and narcissism but not for extroversion.

ICANN misplaces own domain name

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

ICANN misplaces own domain name

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

Internet Governing Body Loses Own Domain Name

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

Internet addressing agency loses its addresses

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

INTERNET ADDRESSING AGENCY LOSES ITS ADDRESSES

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

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