LSU’s domain registry account was illegally accessed from outside the country Nov. 25, causing visitors to the domains to be directed to the marketing page for available domains of GoDaddy.com, the University said Monday in a news release.
The LSU athletic department’s official website – LSUsports.net – was one of the University domains transferred to a third-party account and subsequently cancelled, the release said.
In the meantime, visitors can access content on LSUsports.com until the issue is resolved. Contrary to the GoDaddy.com page, LSUsports.net is not available for purchase.
Todd Politz, LSU Sports interactive manager, said it will likely take one to two days for users to see content correctly again.
“The University is in the process with GoDaddy of undoing everything that was done Thursday,” Politz said. “It really didn’t propagate to the Internet until yesterday afternoon and early this morning. It’s not something that will affect all users immediately, but at the same time, it won’t resolve correctly for all users either. For some users it could take a couple of days to see everything correctly again. It will be a sporadic issue for the next 24-48 hours.”
“It’s not like a flipping a switch where now you see it, now you don’t.”
A Whois.com search revealed the owner who took over the LSUsports.net domain is an individual named Mohamed Irfan through GoDaddy.com. Politz said Irfan is in Jalisco, Mexico.
Politz quashed rumors that LSU forgot to renew the LSUsports.net domain, saying the domain is registered through May 19, 2015.
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