The iWorld

A VeriSign spokesman has said that Verisign found out that a domain name panix.com was transferred without the prior knowledge of the actual registrant and the name servers also changed on Sunday, January 9.

The domain name of Panix, a well-known public access network in New York which later became a commercial ISP, was transferred to Melbourne IT via a reseller in the UK, and panix.com's mail was redirected to another company in Canada over the weekend of January 15-16.

VeriSign serves as a registry for .com and .net domain names. Verisign says that panix.com domain hijack was a true "unauthorized transfer" which took place because of an inadvertent issue with a Registrar transfer system.

Panix has blamed Melbourne IT for the incident.
Sydney Morning Herald reports.