Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN

Bruce A. Mah bmah at acm.org
Wed Jan 24 20:11:19 UTC 2001


If memory serves me right, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> Microsoft appears to be blaming ICANN for the failure with Microft's
> domain name servers (all located at the same place at Microsoft).
> 
>   Microsoft has yet to pin down the cause of the DNS error. "It can
>   be a system or human error, but somebody could also have done this
>   intentionally," De Jonge said. "We don't manage the DNS ourselves,
>   it is a system controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned
>   Names and Numbers (ICANN) with worldwide replicas."
> 
> http://www.idg.net/ic_386962_1793_1-1681.html

Ironically, this article concludes with:

	Microsoft, in Redmond, Washington, can be reached at at [sic]
	http://www.microsoft.com/.

Bruce.



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