AlterNIC was an alternative DNS root founded by Eugene Kashpureff. Kashpureff was arrested on wirefraud charges in November 1997 related to the re-routing of the DNS listing for InterNIC to Alternic's website for two weekends in a row. Kashpureff fled to Canada, where he was arrested. After fighting extradition for two months, he waived his rights, and was extradited to New York City. He was released Christmas Eve, 1997, and sentenced to five years of probation. AlterNIC is currently defunct, and alternic.net is parked and no longer associated with AlterNIC.

External links

• The Internet Archive Wayback Machine List for AlterNIC.net
• Eugene Kashpureff's personal homepage
• Justice Department press release announcing guilty plea
• Photographs of an AlterNIC t-shirt distributed at a conference in the mid-90s, including a list of nameservers which respected AlterNIC at the time