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ICANN Identifies Security Problem That Disabled TLD Application System
In other words, no competitive advantage could be gained by seeing what TLD strings other applicants were applying for.
“An intensive review has produced no evidence that any data beyond the file names and user names could be accessed by other users. In addition, it does not appear that this issue caused any corruption or loss of data,” Akram Atallah, ICANN’s chief operating officer, said in a statement on the organisation’s website.
Originally applications for new top level domains were due to close on 12 April, but on the day ICANN confirmed that there was a continuing unresolved issue and shut down the system, originally extending the closing date to 20 April. But as of the time of writing, ICANN were still testing the system before re-opening it.
Speaking to The Guardian, Kieren McCarthy, a former ICANN staffer and currently managing the dot-nxt consultancy, said ICANN “might bear some liability if applicants lost out because of the fault: ‘it depends on what people could see. And if a competing applicant changed details at some point through the process. If someone loses their bid – most likely if the same name is applied for under a ‘community’ application and so gets precedence – then the losing party may sue and use discovery to subpoena records relating to what the problem was and whether ICANN was responsible or, worse, knew about it.’”
It is likely ICANN became aware of the problem on 19 March following a user report, which they acknowledged in a statement.
Atallah said in one of a number of statements on the ICANN website that ICANN believes “the issues identified in the initial and subsequent reports [have] been addressed, [but] on 12 April we confirmed that there was a continuing unresolved issue and we shut down the system.”
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12 April 2012ICANN has found itself having to take offline their TLD application system, or TAS, due to a security glitch that has taken them sometime to fix. The problem saw some applicants being able to see some other applicants’ file names and user names. However ICANN say no users were able to able to view competitors’ data apart from file names and user names that belonged to other applicants.
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continue 13 February 2012As the three month application window for new generic Top Level Domains nears the half way point, there are announcements trickling out on new applicants. There are now around ten brand names that have become public, but with most estimates of around 1000 to 1500 applications, and a majority of these being brand names, it is becoming clear most applicants will not be known until 1 May when ICANN releases the full list of applicants.
continue 30 January 2012La mise en vente des noms de domaines génériques de premier niveau est une petite révolution de l’e-économie. Les entreprises luxembourgeoises sont à l’affut, prêtes à profiter des dispositions fiscales et des infrastructures.
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