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Zone transfers, a spammer's dream?
From: Feher Tamas <etomcat () freemail hu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:10:13 +0100 (CET)
Panix as ISP's name nicked, transported to Australia by Nick Farrell, 17 Jan 2005 ONE OF the oldest commercial ISPs in the Big Apple claimed it had its domain name 'nicked' on Friday by an Australian outfit. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, here, the ownership of panix.com was moved to a company in Australia called MelbourneIT. The actual DNS records were moved to a company in the United Kingdom, and panix.com's mail has was redirected to yet another company in Canada. According to Panix the Australian company, MelbourneIT, had given the name back and the global internet registry and domain name servers are now showing the correct information. However, due to the distributed nature of the internet domain name system, it will take four to 24 more hours before the false data from the "hijacking" expired and is discarded by the various name servers, the site said. However, the word hijack might not have been a fair comment. The panix.com domain was registered by MelbourneIT 'fair dinkum' through a reseller. Its CEO Theo Hnarakis, said he had not heard of Panix until he was contacted on Sunday. Then he found out that Panix existed and he handed the domain back. It looks like Panix might have been one of the more prominent outfits to fall foul of new rules relating to the transfer of domains which came into effect in November. Under these rules requests for transferring a domain are automatically approved in five days unless they are denied by the owner of the domain. If the contact addresses given in the records were incorrect then a request for transfer would go to a wrong address and after five days of no response, the transfer would become effective. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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