Sorry, Jim; I think it's not that much of a stretch. They said that
(a) it's a DNS problem, (b) they don't understand the cause, but (c)
they don't manage the DNS, ICANN does. OK -- the problem is
therefore
in a piece they don't manage, so they're not at fault. But ICANN
*does* manage it (or so the direct quote says). There's a decent
implication there that the manager is at fault, though not
(of course)
a direct statement. I would also note that the article
quotes De Jonge
as saying "The *Internet's* Domain Name System (DNS) does
does not return
the correct response when it is queried for a Microsoft Web site"
[emphasis added]. In other words, it's not *Microsoft's* DNS
servers,
it's the "Internet's".
You overlooked the prime facae error. ICANN most certainly does NOT manage
the DNS. The US Department of Commerce does. That's actually been proven in
court.