Two organizations, ICANN and IANA, are the critical backbone that makes the Internet work. They control the domain names (e.g. UNiHacker.com, microsoft.com etc) and they also control who is allowed to sell domains. They regulate the Internet domain names for everyone.
A group that calls themselves “NetDevilz” hacked their servers and redirected traffic to another website. A balzy message was also left by the hackers that said, “You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don’t you believe us?”
IANA is the organization that manages the root zones for all top level DNS for domains such as the .org, .com and .net. DNS is what translates a web address to an actual address (IP Address) of a computer on the internet, such as a web server.
A spokesman for ICANN contacted Friday morning wasn’t aware of the hack, and declined comment until he found find out more.
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