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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 blamed ICANN for the failures of its domain name servers.<ref>[http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/0101/0729.html Microsoft Blames ICANN]</ref>
On January 24, 2001, Microsoft Benelux Support Manager Ruud de Jonge confirmed that the majority of Microsoft websites were down due to a problem in the system that maps Web addresses to [[IP Address|IP 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 blamed ICANN for the failures of its domain name servers.<ref>[http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/0101/0729.html Microsoft Blames ICANN]</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
After the failures were resolved, Microsoft issued an 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>
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>