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ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrar

ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrarSo...It figures... It almost always has to be something simple and stupid. Oh well. I hope they learned from it.

Tags: registrar, ICANN

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

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...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Attack, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-08

ICANN says registrar was hacked

ICANN says registrar was hackedWhich registrar?I would bet Network Solutions. But I could be wrong.

Tags: registrar, ICANN

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

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. On June 26, a number of ICANN sites popped up with this message: ...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Attack, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-08

'.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix

'.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffixDangerous ground[i]However, Twomey told Agence France-Press that the organization will still try to block or reject any domain name that it deems inappropriate for security or [b]moral[/b] reasons.[/i]And just what morality standards will they be using?Personally, It wouldn't bother me if all porn...

Tags: INTERNET, SECURITY, ICANN, domain suffix, IPCC

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

News to know: ICANN hacked; IE flaw; OpenSuse 11; Hyper-V; iPhone 3G

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride Matthew...

Tags: Apple iPhone, ICANN, Novell OpenSuse, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, 3G, Cellular Phones, Healthcare, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-27

ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group

ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking groupWindows is to blameI hear that the Internet is basically run on Windows servers so it is hardly surprising that this happened. If ICANN would only switch to OS X I'm sure that no hacker would ever be able to break in.As...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Domain names, ICANN, IANA, hacking group, Turkish, hacker, hacking, IP, domain

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group

What happens when the official domain names of the organizations that issue the domain names in general, and provide all the practical guidance on how the prevent DNS hijacking, end up having their own domain names hijacked? A wake up call for the Internet community. The official...

Tags: Hacking, DNS, ICANN, Domain, Domain Name, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Domain Names, Internet, Networking, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-26

ICANN to OK custom TLDs

ICANN to OK custom TLDsWho cares about URLsI don't bother remembering URLs, I just ask Google or whatever search machine I prefer on the day. It's less typing and forgiving of my typos.Doubt about ImpactThere continue to be so many people that expect to put a .com at the end,...

Tags: ICANN, TLD

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

ICANN to OK custom TLDs

ICANN will dramatically expand the world of top-level domains by essentially letting companies and organizations buy their own TLDs, the Journal reports. As the article points out, .ibm and .ebay make handy TLDs, as do .nyc, .sf, and .aclu. it's not just for anyone though – it...

Tags: ICANN, Internet, Real Estate, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Can fighting registrars win the spam wars?

Shouldn't every registrar have at least a street address on file and freely available through ICANN? And shouldn't ICANN have a complete list of registrar addresses online? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Knujon, Hostgator, Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-10

ICANN warning against registrar impersonation phishing attacks

How realistic is an attack that successfully hijacks a domain by social engineering the domain's registrar? Pretty realistic according to ICANN's recently released advisory on preventing Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks : In this Advisory, SSAC describes generic forms of this type of attack. We consider types and formats of...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, Social Engineering, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN

Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANNRE: Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANNWith the title of your article I was expecting you to name names...garyRE: Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANNWell, the links and the details of the registrars are within the first sentence of...

Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, spam registrar, Top-Ten, ICANN

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN

In a reponse to the recently released cluster analysis of the top 10 worst domain registrars in terms of spam and junk content hosting domains, the ICANN has taken steps to approach the non-compliant registrars : More than half of those registrars named had already been contacted by ICANN...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, Domain Name, Domain Names, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-26

ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses

ICANN turns on next-gen IP addressesSlow Internet?Is this why the interent has been slow for the past several days? Or, the true reason behind AT&T Mobility's data outage that lasted several hours last week?/facepalm^^No, butDepending on where you live, particularly if you are in Egypt or India, you may have...

Tags: Network technology, ICANN, IP address, IP

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace period

ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace periodPLEASE! DO IT!!!I don't care if the original purpose was for typos. That's a lame excuse. Millions of addresses are locked up by cybersquatters. Many times, they just renew it for another free "trial". Or, another cybersquatter picks them up. They are never freed...

Tags: Typos, grace period, ICANN, domain-tasting grace period

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace period

After widespread outrage over Network Solutions' program of locking up domain registrations for the five-day grace period, ICANN says it's considering doing away with the grace period. The move is an attempt to combat domain tasting, in which people register tons of domain names, see which ones...

Tags: ICANN, NetSol, Domain Names, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-30

ICANN: If you love us, let us go

ICANN says its all grown up and ready to move out of the nest. The keeper of all things domain name sent a long report to the Department of Congress, saying that it has achieved all the objectives required for independence, the BBC reports. Paul Twomey, president of Icann,...

Tags: ICANN, Board, JPA, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Foreign-character domain names are coming, ICANN says

By November the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN will begin instituting foreign characters in domain addresses, but for now it's still working on the details, reports the Associated Press.Currently, addresses can have some foreign letters and are limited to characters: a-z, 0-9 and the hyphen. There are...

Tags: International

Blog posts 2007-07-04

ICANN wrestles with changes after Registerfly melt-down

There are major changes happening at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, the organization that oversees domain name registries, reports Ars Technica.At ICANN's 29th international public meeting workshop this week, participants responded to a fiasco by an Internet domain registry that held up customers' domain names. Participants...

Tags: Commerce

Blog posts 2007-06-28