On 19 Jan 2005 at 16:12, Paul Foxworthy wrote:

> 
> The problem was exacerbated because Panix could find no way of contacting
> Melbourne IT over the weekend.

Panix (which is what I am sure they were doing)  were dead lucky the perps didn't blag the 
domain over Xmas and the New Year period. Or that it hadn't been transferred to Totalnic 
who never answer their phones or email anyway.

Some snap shots from the past:

>Whois as at 12th Jan (US times)

Registrant: 
   Public Access Networks Corp. 
   15 West 18th Street, 5th floor 
   New York, NY 10011 
   US 
 
   Registrar: DOTSTER 
   Domain Name: PANIX.COM 
      Created on: 22-APR-91 
      Expires on: 23-APR-05 
      Last Updated on: 13-APR-04 

Domain servers in listed order: 
      NS1.ACCESS.NET 
      NS2.ACCESS.NET 


>Who is as at 15 Jan  through 17 Jan:

Registrar: 	MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Domain Name.......... panix.com 
  Creation Date........ 1991-04-22 
  Registration Date.... 2005-01-15 
  Expiry Date.......... 2006-04-23 
  Organisation Name.... vanessa Miranda 
  Organisation Address. 1010 Grand Cerritos Ave 
  Organisation Address. 
  Organisation Address. Las Vegas 

Name Server.......... ns1.ukdnsservers.co.uk 
Name Server.......... ns2.ukdnsservers.co.uk 


Whois as at 18 Jan

Registrant: 
   Public Access Networks Corp. 
   15 West 18th Street, 5th floor 
   New York, NY 10011 
   US 
 
   Registrar: DOTSTER 
   Domain Name: PANIX.COM 
      Created on: 22-APR-91 
      Expires on: 23-APR-06 
      Last Updated on: 16-JAN-05 

Domain servers in listed order: 
      NS1.ACCESS.NET 
      NS2.ACCESS.NET 

Speaking of Capital Networks aka Totalnic does anyone know the current status of their 
transfer of gTLD domains to "Pacnames"?

cb



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