TheRegister makes false claims

.org registry vanishes into thin air

[ukgimp]

www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30764.html

The registry for all .org domains appears to have collapsed - meaning that all the details of who owns any .org domain are unobtainable.

[Lisa]

This article by TheRegister is totally reckless and filled with incorrect information. They should have done more research before stating something that was completely false. Journalists are supposed to check facts and not print lies. I usually love their articles, but the lack of journalistic proofing and making sure they know what they are talking about is rather disappointing. The sad fact is, I don’t think this is the first time they have released stories without fact checking. I really hope something changes over there.

[kevinpate]

The article has already been updated with a correction.

[ukgimp]

Feel slightly responsible. I trust (ed?) them. Suppose I should go back to the days of "you cannot always take what you read as 100% spot on".

Mind you that said they do have a responsibility to check their facts.

[chiyo]

given some of their articles over the past 6 months, including the blog one, i tend to view most register articles as satire until a real news site confirms it.

[Shak]

seems like a latest update:

[theregister.co.uk...]

Shak

[Lisa]

Much better article, only one technical error in it saying that "nearly all other domains need only one whois query and you get all the information you need".

But the author talks about EPP like it is a new thing, I guess the average person has no clue what EPP is. One of the advantages of EPP is a private key that you can use to prove you are the owner instead of confirming via email, but the problem with this is... If anyone knows your key, then they can transfer your domain and you will not be notified to approve the transfer.... There have been a few problems that were not widely reported... some registrars set all their EPP keys for all the domains in their registrar to the same thing. Imagine thousands of customers all having the same key.