ICANN and IANA Domain Names Hijacked
According to website Zone-H, a group of Turkish hackers hijacked ICANN and IANA domain names on Thursday morning. All of the domain names are registered at Register.com. The group took over control of...
View ArticleICANN Blames Hack on Register.com
After several of ICANN‘s domain names were hacked in June, ICANN has blamed the attack on Register.com. Although ICANN didn’t name the registrar explicitly, a WHOIS search shows that all the...
View Article.XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers
Earlier today IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the root nameservers. While the registry operator Afilias is still in their setup process for ICM registry, the zone is currently propagating....
View ArticleIANA contract opened again for re-bid by the US government
After the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) had canceled the first RFP for a new IANA contractor because they “received no proposals that met the requirements“, the...
View ArticleFirst four new gTLDs in the Root Zone
The first four new gTLDs of this latest round have just been added to the root zone, even though the IANA database has not yet been updated. The four strings delegated are: شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) –Arabic...
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