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==Microsoft and ICANN==
==Microsoft and ICANN==
On January 24, 2001, Microsoft Benelux Support Manager Ruud de Jonge confirmed that Microsoft website that majority of Microsoft websites were down due to a problem in the system that maps Web addresses to IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. In a statement Jonge said, "It can be a system or human error, but somebody could also have done this intentionally. 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."<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/01/24/microsoft.blackout.idg/index.html CNN Archives]</ref> This sparked comments from the internet community and some concluded that Microsoft is blaming ICANN for the failures of its domain name servers.<ref>[http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/0101/0729.html]</ref>
After the failures were resolved, Microsoft issued and apology to its customers and explained that the operational errors were not caused by any third party instead a Microsoft technician made a wrong configuration change to the routers on the edge of Microsoft's Domain Name Server
network which caused limited communication between DNS servers on the Internet and Microsoft's DNS servers.<ref>[http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/0101/0728.html www.irbs.net]</ref>
In 2006, Microsoft became an [[ICANN]] accredited registrar for [[.biz]], [[.com]], [[.info]], [[.name]], [[.net]], [[.pro]] and [[.org]].<ref>[http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/05/0346248 ICANN Watch]</ref>
In 2006, Microsoft became an [[ICANN]] accredited registrar for [[.biz]], [[.com]], [[.info]], [[.name]], [[.net]], [[.pro]] and [[.org]].<ref>[http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/05/0346248 ICANN Watch]</ref>