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		michaelbuckbee on July 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted ... Per the article, he got them registered and pointing at his own DNS test server and received actual .io resolution requests to it.

softawre on July 10, 2017 [–]

Yes but [per the article] they weren't registered before he bought them. Obviously somebody could have done this before and stopped, or could control some of the other servers.

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