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Twitter.com Domain Seized by Syrian Electronic Army

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http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=twi... doesn't show the update

saferwhois.com shows the change (fetching the data from the domain's apparent current registrar, via whois.melbourneit.com).

What is the significance of this? Not being critical, just wondering what the key impact is. Twitter.com still works fine, but sea@sea.sy is most definitely not owned by Twitter.

The whois is correct. Whether they can make DNS changes is whole other question. I doubt they have taken over ownership of the domain.

Can you explain this a bit more please? We're having conversations about this in our office and are still confused.

Is it just that the whois has been compromised and showing wrong information? Or have actual DNS changes been made?

Looks like domaintools.com is NOT the only one showing the DNS changes, so we're mighty confused at our end. :| Appreciate any insight you might have.

Administrative data, such as name and contact information may not necessarily be available at the same security level as DNS (nameserver) data. Also note that domain contact details are not the same as DNS. Read more about DNS at a more reliable source, i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System. You'll soon get what's happening.

I see it is still registered to Twitter Inc. in San Francisco? Anyone have a screenshot?

The admin and tech names are "SEA SEA" with emails of 'sea@sea.sy'

Appears to be partially edited and updated recently. "SEA@SEA.SY"

someone was able to edit the admin info. I checked with other whois tools and the SEA e-mail address is all over the place.... However I'm not sure they were able to do more than that...

Twitter's image service, twimg.com, is showing SEA in whois as well.

For those interested in what the internals of government monitoring of communications is like, do check out the BlueCoat logs leaked by Telecomix which I linked below.

A vast multitude of hits relate to families, sexual habits, religious affiliations.

What SEA does with news orgs is derail them as much as possible. There is very much an internal campaign to 'cleanse' the terrorists, repopulate parts of Homs with Alawites.

This is real. Please don't hell ban me for it again.

I'm pretty sure hellbanning is not primarily an evaluation of whether the user is writing about "real" topics or not.

HN is a discussion website for hackers and topics that interest them. If you're dropping wall-of-text posts in the middle of unrelated discussions, it's completely irrelevant whether you're talking about something "real" or not.

Here already you're complaining about (re)posting into the void, and copy/pasting things you've apparently already posted elsewhere. This is a discussion site -- that is not discussion. You have more comments on this post than anyone else, half of them complaining about being hell-banned; that's also not discussion.

Finally, I read what you wrote and still have little clue of what you're talking about. It's probably worth finding a single solid source for what you're talking about, post it, and then discuss it (not just flood the comment thread...). I.e., see what people are wondering about, or what other people know... that's how discussion works. Good luck.

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