For about 20 minutes on June 26, 2008, the domains iana.com, iana-servers.com, icann.com and icann.net displayed this 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 was quiet about this until recently where it posted a Response to Recent Security Threats stating:
“The redirect was noticed and corrected within 20 minutes; however it may have taken anywhere up to 48 hours for the redirect to be entirely removed from the Internet.”
“In a separate and unrelated incident a few days later, attackers used a very recent exploit in popular blogging software Wordpress to target the ICANN blog. The attack was noticed immediately and the blog taken offline while an analysis was run. That analysis pointed to an automated attack.”
“ICANN has started an internal review of its existing security procedures to see if there are any lessons that can be learnt”
Do you get the feeling that ICANN’s decision of .WhatEverYouWant could be the issue?
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