posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 10:23 AM
by
demiliani
.ly domains disappeared?
This is really a curious thing of this morning... .ly domains (the suffix for Libia) seems to be disappeared from Internet!!!
If you try to go to http://www.nic.ly/ you will see an error page (page not found). NIC.ly is not an obscure site, but the official site of the Name Authority for Libia (assigned from IANA). The same thing if you try to go to http://www.biz.ly/, the site of a provider from Libia that is a point of reference for the few organization of this country.
Someone on The Register has reported this notice and said that this could be an incorrect abuse of power from ICANN, the world domain organization.
Seems that the society Lydomains.com (the society that sells the .ly domains registration) has sent an email to all its clients saying that, as a consequence from a IANA action, the DNS that manages the ccTLD.ty is disabilited.
This is terrible... and at the moment IANA and ICANN have not released declarations. Is this an abouse of power?
I hope no...
UPDATE: now see that some domain are re-activated... it's really a curious fact!