Registrar PKNIC Bug

Well kind of as last night Mr Touseef had successfully been able to add following domains to my PKNIC (Pee-Key NIC) domain panel.

zong.com.pk connect.net.pk telenor.com.pk google.com.pk onlinenews.com.pk dailytimes.com.pk express.com.pk fbise.edu.pk app.com.pk newsline.com.pk jang.com.pk kse.com.pk frontierpost.com.pk nation.com.pk

(Mr Touseef have more screen shots and evidences of this software bug of PKNIC. These email owners must also have received an email of changed authorization codes to their site last night.)

Mr Touseef could have changed anything from registrar/billing/technical information to DNS entries.

A Short Story in his own words

“Should I have just changed their DNS to point them all to my site?

Well, even a small change in the DNS could have rendered any top Pakistani site, out of sight (and out of business) for at least 72 hours (due to double propagation delay involved) and sure, it could have become a real nightmare for PKNIC but I think I am a nice guy to deal with (Please pay me thanks by may be having my full size picture (with a caption of “ba’a-baa’ay Internet Pakistan :D) on the first page of your site for at least a few days or I wont mind an exclusive interview for your site as well.)

A few more screen shots of zong.com.pk site edit page and google.com.pk whois results. (Telenor and Zong should have given me life time of free air time. heheh)

These screen shots itself speak volumes about the responsibility PKNIC assumes in handling this domain business. Looked like, some nice coder out there at PKNIC had been messing with the live site and had the debug code (may be) on. So when I hit the submit button to get my new authorization code I was surprised to see it on the very top of the site. I immidiately checked my email and there was it. The same code. With fingers crossed I tried to import my domain name and yep. It was imported. I tried to generate a new code and I was given the information that it has already been imported and you should contact the person who has imported it. Imagine if you have to contact Mr. X or PKNIC to get your domain back?!?

They have now taken care of the bug by removing the SQL “SET” query display which contained the authorization code when you tried to generate a new one. They also have moved back all the domains to their previous owners/agents so I don’t see none of these domains anymore in my account.

You can imagine the possibilities (or may not like to imagine them at all) of your domain control being transfered to some crack head to play some domain peek-a-boo with your visitors. But the point is should we let them easily get away with this nonsense? When, if we all try, this event can really become an eye opener for them (Pee-Key-NIC) and we may have the PKNIC being transfered to some responsible company(ies) or we may very well start seeing some professionalism from our “beloved” Pee-Key-NIC.

Please feel free to leave some comments on how can we use these evidences for better domain registration/maintenance services in Pakistan.”