[77400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: panix hijack press
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Wed Jan 19 21:36:51 2005
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:35:21 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1106183697.4759.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thornton wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:51 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> =20
>
>>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Darrell Greenwood wrote:
>> =20
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>>>customers' domains. Panix.com says its domain name was locked, and
>>>that despite this, it was still transferred. =C2=AE
>>> =20
>>>
>>I seem to recall someone saying it wasnt locked, now theyre saying it w=
as?
>>
>> =20
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>panix claims it was locked but I dont think it was. Like was mentioned
>they locked there other domains after panix.com was taken over. Why
>would they just lock one domain?
> =20
>
Upon what verifiable facts do you base your endless speculation?
(1) Stop blaming the victim!
(2) Registrants can't "lock" domains, it's a registrar-lock. Users
can only ask that domains be locked. Stupid policy, bad results.
(3) This is a red-herring issue anyway, since there is no evidence
that Mel-IT ever sent notification, or even waited 5 days for a
response. The domain was hijacked in the middle of the night, in the
middle of a weekend -- a very odd time for confirming responses by a
staff that wasn't in the office answering the phones....
(4) Mel-IT has admitted it "failed to properly confirm", and a
"loophole" caused the error.
(5) Mel-IT has an executive and a lawyer that were both notified about
the problem, and refused to mitigate the damage.
(6) Stop blaming the victim!
--=20
William Allen Simpson
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