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Featured Blogs Typosquatting Continues to Pose Dangers to Enterprises, Consumers
While typosquatting is not a new phenomenon, recent research highlights that it is being used to collect sensitive corporate information from employees and lure consumers to interact with dubious websites. ... Security consultancy Godai Group recently uncovered the use of a specific type of typosquat - a "doppelganger domain" - to collect sensitive enterprise information via email-based attacks. more »
Sep 21, 2011 - by Mary Roach - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cybercrime, Cybersquatting, Domain Names, Security Russia and China Propose UN General Assembly Resolution on "Information Security"
On September 12 China, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan released a Resolution for the UN General Assembly entitled "International code of conduct for information security." The resolution proposes a voluntary 12 point code of conduct based on "the need to prevent the potential use of information and communication technologies for purposes that are inconsistent with the objectives of maintaining international stability and security and may adversely affect the integrity of the infrastructure within States..." more »
Sep 20, 2011 - by Milton Mueller - Comments: 2
Related Topics: Access Providers, Censorship, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Security, Telecom The US DOJ Rogue Internet Pharmacy Settlement: Implications for Registrars
In the wake of Google's settlement with the Department of Justice for permitting advertising by illegal online pharmacies, what are the legal implications for Domain Name Registrars and ISPs in the US and elsewhere? In short, if you're a Registrar or ISP, it's a new ballgame. Here's why it's critical for you to steer clear of criminal and civil liability by making sure your registration services aren't used by rogue online pharmacy criminals. (And, here's how to do it.) more »
Sep 19, 2011 - by John Horton - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cybercrime, Domain Names, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation The Association of National Advertisers Blinders on New TLDs
I read with interest the piece by the Chairman of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), Garry Elliot, in Advertising Age, which was partly prompted by my commentary in the same publication describing why new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) could be an opportunity for some brands. He says: "From all I've seen, no matter how one tries to justify ICANN's process or the benefits it speculates will occur, it is simply impossible to defend the economics of the ICANN proposal. That is the Achilles' heel of this entire exercise. To paraphrase an old saying, 'It's the economics, stupid.'" more »
Sep 19, 2011 - by Alexa Raad - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cybersquatting, Domain Names, Registry Services, ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains ICANN and Ethics
On September 2nd ICANN opened a one-month public comment period asking whether its Conflict of Interest Policy and related Bylaws should be altered. In light of recent heightened scrutiny of ICANN's policies regarding permissible employment options for departing Directors and key employees this announcement might have been welcome news. Instead, it's a narrow, cart-before-the-horse initiative that seems tone-deaf to predictable stakeholder, political and public relations fallout. more »
Sep 19, 2011 - by Philip S Corwin - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation India - The Internet's Next Billion
Everyone seems to be talking about how the big boom is set to happen in India for domain names, and there are significant factors to ensure that this growth happens. The internet spends and E-commerce usage is fast becoming the face of modern India, a part of everyday lifestyle. Although awareness is still the biggest barrier domain name Registrars face with consumers, there are signs of significant improvement in trust, usability and the adoption of web services. more »
Sep 19, 2011 - by Arjun Nair - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Domain Names, Registry Services, Top-Level Domains, Web Selecting ICANN's Next CEO: A Letter to the Chair of the Board
Since ICANN's CEO announced (on Twitter) that he would be leaving in July 2012, the Internet has been abuzz with details on what happened and why. Rod Beckstrom's tenure so far has earned praise and criticism, much of the latter dwelling on his management style, and on the rate of turnover in ICANN's staff since his appointment. As for the praise, it was implicit in the official announcement put out by ICANN on 16 September, with a link to a list of the outgoing CEO's achievements. Many in our community have a vivid recollection of the criticism leveled at Beckstrom, during a plenary session in an ICANN international meeting, by Maria Farrell, a former staff member. more »
Sep 18, 2011 - by Jean-Jacques Subrenat - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance The Design of the Domain Name System, Part VIII - Names Outside the DNS
In previous installments we've been looking at aspects of the design of the DNS. In today's grand finale we look at the the subtle but very knotty issue of names inside and outside the DNS. In the early years of the DNS, domain names were typically resolved to A records which were used to identify a host running a service. With the notable exception of e-mail, once the host was identified, the name no longer mattered. more »
Sep 17, 2011 - by John Levine - Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS Hacking Away at the Internet's Security
The front page story of the September 13 2011 issue of the International Herald Tribune said it all: "Iranian activists feel the chill as hacker taps into e-mails." The news story relates how a hacker has "sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam" and then "created credentials that could allow someone to spy on Internet connections that appeared to be secure." According to this news report this incident punched a hole in an online security mechanism that is trusted by hundreds of millions of Internet users all over the network. more »
Sep 17, 2011 - by Geoff Huston - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Cyberattack, Cybercrime, DNS, DNSSEC, Security Thinking of Applying for a Truly Generic TLD, but Restricting Ownership to a Single Registrant?
As it's coming down to brass tacks and companies are now seriously considering applying for their own .Brand Top-Level Domain (TLD), questions about whether to also apply for a truly generic TLD keep popping up. Many large corporations want to know whether it's even possible to apply for something like .Shoes AND to restrict registrations so that only a single specified registrant is allowed. After all, for the right company it seems that something like .Shoes could be a valuable namespace -- short, easy to remember, and easy to spell. more »
Sep 16, 2011 - by Elisa Cooper - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Top-Level Domains Limitations of Carrier Grade NAT, and Some Workarounds
Qtel, the largest carrier in Qatar (and nearly the only Internet provider) appears to connect all their users (~600K) to the Internet through just one or a very few public IPv4 addresses. 82.148.97.69 was their single public address in 2006-2007. How can network address translation (NAT) put all those users through just one IP address? more »
Sep 16, 2011 - by Brough Turner - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, IP Addressing Inconsistencies in ICANN New TLD Application Fees
In preparation for Monday's Joint Applicant Support (JAS) Working Group call, I spent some time reviewing various documents in connection with what are ICANN's actual costs in reviewing top-level domain name applications. One thing that caught my attention was the following metric in Rod Beckstrom's most recent CEO Monthly One Page Metric Report. more »
Sep 16, 2011 - by Michael D. Palage - Comments: 1
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Top-Level Domains Analysis of Wireless Broadband Plan in 2nd Stimulus Package
While it was good to see that the Administration included telecoms in its new stimulus package - which was launched in September 2011 - the concerns expressed when the project was announced last year still persist. Wireless is not a solution to the significant broadband problems the USA is facing. ... The new plan seems to be driven more by the failed attempts in previous initiatives to roll out more broadband infrastructure. more »
Sep 15, 2011 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Mobile, Policy & Regulation, Telecom, Wireless Critical Data Belongs in the Cloud, Not Under It - Lessons Learned from Irene
"As flood waters from Tropical Storm Irene swamped the Waterbury state office complex, seven employees from the Vermont Agency of Human Services rushed inside to rescue computer servers that are critical for processing welfare checks and keeping track of paroled prisoners living around the state," according to a story by Shay Totten on the 7days blog Blurt. Two of the employees - network administrator Andrew Matt and deputy chief information officer Darin Prail - lost their cars in the parking lot as the river rose but kept on working to assure that our servers were not lost. "We didn't know how much time we had," Matt said, "and our job was to save the servers." more »
Sep 13, 2011 - by Tom Evslin - Comments: 0
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