Domain Registration Related News
ICANN asked to probe all transfer problems
March 2005
Domain name registrar Melbourne IT says it
hopes the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers, the arbiter of domain-related issues,
will investigate all registrars who do not adhere
to its domain transfer policy with the same zeal
it has shown in investigating the hijacking of the
domain of New York ISP, Panix.
Panix had its domain hijacked over the weekend of
January 15-16. Its domain was registered with
Dotster, a registrar based in Washington. By
January 17, the domain had been restored.
Melbourne IT has admitted that it was to blame for
the incident as one of its resellers failed to
follow the process for seeking authorisation for a
domain name transfer request.
ICANN completed its review of the incident on
March 14 and laid the entire blame for the
incident on Melbourne IT.
Melbourne IT chief technical officer Dr Bruce
Tonkin said in a statement that the company, while
welcoming the ICANN efforts, considered the
hijacking incident to be "an isolated, but
serious, security incident among many thousands of
transfers that have been processed in accordance
with the transfers policy."
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