Dr. Joe and all, This is not the first time, nor shall it likely be the last time ICANN's Root servers have been hacked as long as the technical expertise at the IANA continues to decline as it has sense 1999. Even though ICANN has partly implemented DNSSEC on a few Root servers, that implementation was not a FULL implementation and was not coupled with IPSEC or securing the root servers themselves. I warned of this the first time back in 2000, and was rebuffed. Now that yet again ICANN's security folks have shown that they don't know what the heck they are doing, one has to wonder how they can be considered good stuarts of the security and safety of the DNS. Joe Baptista wrote:

Interesting to see that the ICANN and IANA domains were high jacked yesterday.

http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14973/30/

Basically they hacked the main page and left the following message

# NeTDevilz #

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?

haha :)

(Lovable Turkish hackers group)

©2008 NetDevilz Co. We're not first,But We're the BEST! regards joe baptista

p.s. these hackers have the right general idea. ICANN has no control over root operations. Years ago they had over 90% market share in root - now thats down to about 70%. So it pleases me to no end that the hackers have heard the message i've been going on for years. There is no ICANN root monopoly.

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