here's proof that even some supposed experts don't know all they should
know about domain names:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/washtech/wtech001.htm
A fake e-mail sent to the keeper of the Internet's global address book
yesterday erased
America Online Inc.'s spot on the global computer network, causing
thousands of incoming
e-mails to go to the wrong place and preventing many people from visiting
AOL's World
Wide Web site.
AOL officials said all the misdirected e-mail should show up eventually in
the correct mailboxes. But the incident highlighted a security issue
involving how the central addresses known as domains are administered on
the Internet.
The incident began before 5 a.m. when someone impersonating an AOL official
sent e-mail to InterNIC, the Herndon organization that maintains the
domain name registry for the Internet, InterNIC spokesman Christopher
Clough said. The message requested the electronic address of AOL's domain
be changed.
Because AOL had chosen the lowest of three security levels possible for
making such a change, it was made automatically, with no review by any
person at Network Solutions Inc., the company that runs InterNIC, Clough
said.
The new address assigned was that of Autonet.net, an Internet service
provider. Mail meant for AOL automatically was diverted to Autonet,
overwhelming computers at the service.
In AOL's network monitoring center in Dulles, people monitoring traffic
volumes noticed a drop in the volume of e-mail coming in from the Internet.
They began investigating and found the change, AOL spokeswoman Ann
Brackbill said.
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Suzanne Stephens, Dave Stephens Design; Ashland, Oregon
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