{"id":198598,"date":"2007-10-25T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/25\/so-not-shocked-icann-is-corrupt\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T03:23:00","slug":"so-not-shocked-icann-is-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/25\/so-not-shocked-icann-is-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"So Not Shocked&#8230;.ICANN is Corrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/10\/25\/domain_name_front_running\/\">someone at ICANN is feeding domain name lookups to people on the outside so that they can hold them for ransome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have ever checked if a domain is available, and come back a few hours later to discover that someone has taken it, you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>ICANN&#8217;s Security and Stability Advisory Committee is looking into suspicions that someone with access to search requests has been using this data to snap up potentially desirable domains, a process dubbed domain name front running.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional domain speculation, those who buy searched-for domains can be pretty sure of a potential interest when they attempt to sell their domains at a profit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn straight.  You already know that someone wants the domain, because they have searched for it.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Suspicions that the sharp practice is happening have not yet been proven, but are fuelled by user experiences suggesting something is amiss. Many people who check to see if a domain is available reportedly find it&#8217;s been bought by the time they return a short time later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the allegations are true, as <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">anyone<\/span> who has had this happen to them over, and over, and over again can attest.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a domain, you need to snapit it up <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">immediately<\/span> after the search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that someone at ICANN is feeding domain name lookups to people on the outside so that they can hold them for ransome. If you have ever checked if a domain is available, and come back a few hours later to discover that someone has taken it, you know what I mean. ICANN&#8217;s Security &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}