A New York Internet service provider is working to recover its hijacked domain name and e-mail services, the company said Sunday.A Panix.com representative said ownership of the domain had been moved sometime Friday evening to a company in Australia...
Sounds like they forgot to lock the domain after the ICANN changes.
[edited by: Woz at 5:00 am (utc) on Jan. 17, 2005]
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Remind me to stay out of your neighborhood!
"The registrars have not been as cooperative as common sense would dictate," the representative said.
Is common sense even common? And who dictates such?
Obviously that representative doesn't either understand or realize how registrars
operate. S/he seems to think it's easy getting the name back just like that.
BTW, the domain didn't expire based on the WHOIS:
Domain Name: PANIX.COM
Registrar: DOTSTER, INC.
Whois Server: whois.dotster.com
Referral URL: [dotster.com...]
Name Server: NS1.ACCESS.NET
Name Server: NS2.ACCESS.NET
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 17-jan-2005
Creation Date: 22-apr-1991
Expiration Date: 23-apr-2007
It appears a hijacking indeed occurred. But only time will tell how it goes...
ICANN is requesting public comments on experiences with the new policy, which went into effect in November 2004.The ICANN message boards reveal a posting by George Kirkikos claiming that aem.com, f3.com and xybererotica.com appear to have been hijacked as well.
