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Sweet Witch
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And forgive the noob

but just how does someone steal a domain?
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Looks like they are on therer way back online, here is an update from them located at »www.panix.net notice this site .net .com is where they are working from for right now.

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On the road to recovery

This was just posted to NANOG about an hour ago, from their shell's MOTD:

. Hijack recovery underway (elr) Sun Jan 16 17:43:28 2005
.
. Recovery is underway from the panix.com domain hijack.
.
. The root name servers now have the correct information, as does the
. WHOIS registry. Portions of the Internet will still not be able to
. see panix.com until their name servers expire the false data. More
. info soon.
.
. panix.net status update (elr) Sun Jan 16 16:06:41 2005
.
. As some of our customers have noticed, there have been a few problems
. with using panix.net as a substitute for panix.com. We've fixed most
. of them:
.
. * if you change your return address to username@panix.net, it now works.
. Previously, it was getting re-written back to username@panix.com. Customers
. may need to do this to send mail to domains that use "Sender Address
. Verifcation" since the fake panix.com mail servers don't seem to be
. accepting mail right now.
.
. * The URL "http://www.panix.net/~USERNAME" automatically redirects to
. panix.com/~USERNAME. You can get around this by appending a / to the URL:
.
. »www.panix.net/~USERNAME/
.
. * Addresses of the form xxxx@USERNAME.users.panix.net are working now.
.
. Of course, we're still working around the clock to solve the underlying
. problem with the hijacked domain.


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What a good laugh, I can now goto bed this made my night!


Sweet Witch
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Re: And forgive the noob

And my question still isn't answered.
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A lot of people at PANIX are asking that same question right now.

Presumably this was done by requesting a transfer from the registrar, but there are other ways to accomplish this task:

•The domain owner allows the registration to lapse (i.e. didn't renew the domain in time)
•A hacker gains access to the registrars records
•The domain owner failed to keep current contact information in their record -- registrar could delete the information if it's determined that contact with said individual is not possible.
•Domains registered through a throw-away address (hotmail, yahoo, msn, etc.) and the account is deleted. Someone could re-use the account and request the username/password information.

I'm sure there are some other ways, but those are the ones that come to mind off the top of my head.

It's not the first time something of this nature hit the news, in September of last year a 19-year old hijacked eBay Germany by requesting a transfer. I'm not sure if they ever published how that one got through.
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