‘Stop that rumour’
p2pnet.net News:-Yesterday we posted GUARD YOUR DOMAIN NAME !, an item warning that hijackings are about to become easier.
But, "You’re a little alarmist about ICANN," Globe and Mail tech columnist Jack Kapica emailed us.
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Stop that rumour
By Jack Kapica - Globe and Mail Update
A posting by "Tanktalus" on Slashdot today says that after Friday, when new rules governing domain registrations come into effect, it will be easy for anyone to hijack your domain name. If you don’t respond to a request to change registrars within five days, it’s gone, he says.
Not true. But the wording is difficult, and has fooled several other techies in the blogosphere.
Mike Masin, a registrar for TUCOWS, says that the change actually makes it tougher to hijack domain names because the new rules set down by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) refer to the second part of a double-protection system. The first part forces the "winning" registrar to authenticate the change; if you do not respond to that request, the request dies.
If the domain holder approves the change with the winning registrar, then the losing registrar has five days to seek your approval. If you do not give it, the default answer is now "yes."
The point of the change, Mr. Masin said, was to prevent the losing registrars from dragging their feet while approving the loss of a customer, a major problem with some registrars.
