The rebels defaced the registry’s main page .LY

Probably everyone is aware of the latest Libyan incidents where now on the streets of Tripoli there are fights between rebels and forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi. Today there is not even a telephone connection in the city. But all Libyan domains of various services like bit.ly and brief.ly continue to work.

Yesterday, the rebels even made their way into the building of the state telecom operator and defaced the main page of the domain zone registry .LY - nic.ly :


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Pages of other sites, like the ltt.ly operator itself , so far without noticeable deviations.

How will this affect other sites in the .LY zone you ask?

Most likely, it will be remembered by history as a case when adrenaline rushes to the head in the head, while on the street they constantly shoot, and everything will manage with slight shock.

First of all, only one page - the main one. Other pages like nic.ly/whois.php and other sections of the registry work.

The server's root of the zone .LY, and there are 5 of them all over the world - have not touched it yet. Two servers are located directly in Tripoli. Two - America (in Oregon), and one - in Holland.

Route server in Tripoli has already dropped out of the Internet over the past six months during various combat operations many times. The whole world quietly receives DNS records from other servers. In fact, the request is sent to Libya under the condition of geographic proximity - and this, as a rule, only from North Africa.

I think the defiled page will be removed as soon as the receptionists get into their telecom building or get Internet access to the broken site at home.

The only thing that should be feared by users of the .LY zone is if the hackers do take up the master root server and start deleting the domain name records directly on it with simultaneous synchronization to other server root. It is unlikely, but if this happens, ICANN will already have to intervene and freeze the zone until better times.

Source: .LY of course!