New York ISP has domain hijacked?

New York ISP, Panix, is reported to have had its domain name hijacked.

According to ISP fights for return of hijacked domain:

A Panix.com representative said ownership of the domain had been moved sometime Friday evening to a company in Australia, the domain name server (DNS) records had been moved to the United Kingdom and that the company’s mail had been redirected to a company in Canada.

The company warned that most customers will either have no access to the Panix.com domain or will arrive at a false site. E-mail to the domain is being directed to the false site and “should be considered lost or compromised,” the ISP said in its posting.

Although it is uncertain how the ISP’s domain could have been hijacked, in September a German teen was arrested after he put in DNS transfer requests for a small number of corporate sites, and suddenly became the registered owner of ebay.de.