Even ICANN Isn’t Safe
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008In late June, a group of hackers in Turkey highjacked the domains icann.com, icann.net, iana.com andiana-servers.com. ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA is Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Together, these two organizations oversee the system that manages website nameserver and address information.
According to Zone H, the DNS records of the domains were redirected to point to hosting space at “atspace.com.” The hackers, a Turkish group called NetDevilz, posted this message at the redirected site:
“You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don’t you believe us?”
NetDevilz was the same group that highjacked the PhotoBucket domain previously.
According to the NYTimes, ICANN blamed the highjacking on a hack into its registrar, which was register.com.