“Domain-name hijacking occurs when someone fraudulently takes control of a domain name, often by masquerading as the legitimate administrative contact for a domain name.
The e-mail addresses of administrative contacts, widely available in the WHOIS database of domain registrations, are used to verify domain-name holders.
The domain-name hijacking report, available here as a PDF, came from ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee.
The report, announced Wednesday during an international meeting of the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in Luxembourg, followed at least two high-profile incidents this year of what is known as domain-name hijacking—one hitting New York-based ISP Panix and another affecting e-mail provider Hushmail Communications Corp.
The committee advises the domain-name system overseer's board of directors and constituents such as the registrars that sell domain names to individuals and business and the registries that manage domains such as .com and .net.
While the Panix and Hushmail cases were widely reported, the ICANN committee report also cited a dozen other examples of stolen domain names. The hijacks hit such high-profile names as wifi.com, commericials.com, nike.com and ebay.de.
Committee members expressed optimism that the report will lead to swift action, but it was still unclear as of late Wednesday whether ICANN's board planned to address the report's findings and recommendations at its meeting later this week.”
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1836820,00.asp?kc=ewnws071505dtx1k0000599
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