This bit me kind of bad yesterday. I was about to drive out of cell range and got a text that client's site had some strange page displaying. Unfortunately, they repoint the dns servers of the domain, and the client had the contact email mx records associated with same domain. The actual site gets 'dns hikacked' by icann until you fill out a captcha on your site's new page and it emails the whois email account on rec…
ICANN didn't 'hijack' the domain. The domain was suspended from DNS because you hadn't paid your renewal bill. The "strange page" was put up by your registrar to notify any visitors of this and to direct them towards their billing system. The idea is to effectively shame people into paying their bills in a timely manner. Your registrar would've sent you at least three different emails before and shortly after the dom…
It was paid for a full year, beginning a month before this incident.
Succinctly, you are wrong.
But if you would like, here is an analogy:
Your electric company wants to make sure your phone number is accurate, so your electrical company calls a number on the account, and unless you answer, they shut off your electricity. Your bill is paid, but they cannot verify your phone, so your power gets cut off.
...and all you have is cordless phone, which won't work without electricity.
So, you have to go to the power company to change the phone number on the account to your brother's phone, and then verify using his number to get your electricity turned back on.