Turkish company captured top-level domain?
The mysterious story of the seizure of the three domain zones of Grenada (.gd), the British Virgin Islands (.vg) and the Turks and Caicos Islands (.tc) is still ongoing.
On May 1, the IANA (Internet Address Space Administration) decided to transfer control of the .GD zone to the National Telecommunications Committee of Grenada (NTRC). On May 6, the .GD domain was redelegated to his name. But in fact, all the functions of the domain zone administrator will be performed by KSRegistry, which was and remains its technical operator. IANA explained its decision by the fact that the former owner of the domain zone - AdamsNames - is not able to fully perform the functions of the registry and ensure the security of the DNS system. In order to avoid abuses of the “third party”, which in March of this year gained partial control over the domain zone, the domain was temporarily “frozen”. All domain operations were disabled until May 21. Redelegation of the domain was due to the initiative of the NTRC and the government of Grenada, who decided not to trust their national domain of the company AdamsNames.
But the future of the other two domains - .VG and .KC - remains in question. Although there were no visible changes to the .VG domain (its administrator and technical operator was AdamsNames), the .KC domain was likely captured as a result of hacking the registry site. Its technical operator is the Turkish company Meridian TLD , which recently also launched a website where you can register domains in the .KC and .VG zones.
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The most interesting thing is that ICANN and IANA transferred the rights for technical management of the zone to Meridian TLD. KX before AdamsNames complained about “domain seizure”. Moreover, as stated on the official website of AdamsNames, representatives of the "criminal" company attended the ICANN meeting in Beijing as representatives of AdamsNames.
It is hard to imagine how the Meridian TLD could not only take control of the whole domain zone, but also officially receive the status of its technical operator. So far in this story too much remains unclear.
On May 1, the IANA (Internet Address Space Administration) decided to transfer control of the .GD zone to the National Telecommunications Committee of Grenada (NTRC). On May 6, the .GD domain was redelegated to his name. But in fact, all the functions of the domain zone administrator will be performed by KSRegistry, which was and remains its technical operator. IANA explained its decision by the fact that the former owner of the domain zone - AdamsNames - is not able to fully perform the functions of the registry and ensure the security of the DNS system. In order to avoid abuses of the “third party”, which in March of this year gained partial control over the domain zone, the domain was temporarily “frozen”. All domain operations were disabled until May 21. Redelegation of the domain was due to the initiative of the NTRC and the government of Grenada, who decided not to trust their national domain of the company AdamsNames.
But the future of the other two domains - .VG and .KC - remains in question. Although there were no visible changes to the .VG domain (its administrator and technical operator was AdamsNames), the .KC domain was likely captured as a result of hacking the registry site. Its technical operator is the Turkish company Meridian TLD , which recently also launched a website where you can register domains in the .KC and .VG zones.
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The most interesting thing is that ICANN and IANA transferred the rights for technical management of the zone to Meridian TLD. KX before AdamsNames complained about “domain seizure”. Moreover, as stated on the official website of AdamsNames, representatives of the "criminal" company attended the ICANN meeting in Beijing as representatives of AdamsNames.
It is hard to imagine how the Meridian TLD could not only take control of the whole domain zone, but also officially receive the status of its technical operator. So far in this story too much remains unclear.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/179087/
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