ICANN Loses Control of Its Own Domain Names

Slashdot notes an AP story picked up by CBCNEWS.ca about ICANN losing control over two of their own domain names on June 26th. Apparently a domain registrar in an internet registration company overseen by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) transferred the domains to somebody else. While the attack was noticed very quickly and ICANN's domain names were restored within 20 minutes, many internet directories retain information for a day or two and visitors may have been redirected to an unauthorized site for longer.

The ICANN press release about the incident states that:

'The DNS redirect was a result of an attack on ICANN's registrar's systems. A full, confidential, security report from that registrar has since been provided to ICANN with respect to this attack.'

For further information, see CBCnews.ca.