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This situation was exploited earlier this week when a prankster using the pseudonym "Simon Pop" and a US mailing address was able to register the domain taliban.gov.af for just $25, demonstrating that anyone outside of the Afghan Government could register a .gov.af domain.
The domain's registrar has submitted a deregistration EPP request, and the .gov.af second-level domain has since been locked to prevent this sort of thing happening again.
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This situation was exploited earlier this week when a prankster using the pseudonym "Simon Pop" and a US mailing address was able to register the domain taliban.gov.af for just $25, demonstrating that anyone outside of the Afghan Government could register a .gov.af domain.
The domain's registrar has submitted a deregistration EPP request, and the .gov.af second-level domain has since been locked to prevent this sort of thing happening again.
read more