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[email protected] (William Allen Simpson) wrote: > While the Association of Trustworthy ISPs idea has some merit, we've > not been too successful in self-organizing lately. ISP/C? I thought we already had built such a thing, currently covered by ICANN. But well...life changes everything, and for some (or many) or us, this association doesn't seem so trustworthy anymore. Maybe it would be better to improve trustworthiness of the existing authorities. I believe there is still much room for participation, not to mention political issues you simply cannot counter on a technical level. > At the moment, I'm concerned whether we have trustworthy TLD operators. One can never know what's going on behind the scenes. Maybe Verysign is on the issue, maybe not. I believe, there are at least three VS people on this list who could address this. I don't know whether they are allowed to. > It's been about 24 hours, it is well-known that the domain has been > hijacked, we've heard directly from the domain owner and operator, > but the TLD servers are still pointing to the hijacker. By chance - how is the press coverage of this incident? Has anybody read anything in the (online) papers? Unfortunately I haven't been able to follow the newsboards intensely this week-end, but Germany seems very quiet about this. Yours, Elmar.
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