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Re: Domain hijacking, InterNIC loopholes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Rankin)
Tue Jan 30 14:33:57 1996

Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:20:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Bob Rankin <bobrankin@mhv.net>
To: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab@dxm.org>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, nit@chron.com
In-Reply-To: <9601301819.AA00964@toad.com>

Rishab wrote: 

>On the other hand I know no case of domain hijacking
>actually taking place. 

I do.  The sysop at colossus.net told me this very thing happened to him
last fall.  I just can't believe this process is automated - I wonder what
would happen if someone hijacked internic.net!

Regards,
  Bob Rankin (BobRankin@MHV.net)

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