News Briefs ANA Moves Campaign Against New gTLDs to YouTube, Accuses ICANN of Lying Nov 30, 2011 - Include Your Comments Court OKs Private Seizure of Domain Names That Allegedly Sold Counterfeit Goods Nov 28, 2011 - Include Your Comments Major ISPs in Australia Reveal Plans to Crack Down on Online Piracy Nov 28, 2011 - Include Your Comments UK Reveals New Cyber Security Strategy, Aims to Make UK Safest in the World Nov 25, 2011 - Include Your Comments European Court of Justice: Courts in EU May Not Order ISPs to Filter Out P2P Nov 24, 2011 - Include Your Comments Featured Blogs DNSSEC Update from ICANN 42 in Dakar While the global rollout of DNSSEC continues at the domain name registry level - with more than 25% of top-level domains now signed - the industry continues to focus on the problem of registrar, ISP and ultimately end-user adoption. At the ICANN meeting in Dakar in late October, engineers from some of the early-adopting registries gathered for their regular face-to-face discussion about how to break the "chicken or egg" problems of secure domain name deployment. more » Nov 30, 2011 - by Ram Mohan - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Access Providers, DNS, DNSSEC, Domain Names, ICANN, Security Creative Vertigo: The Spin of the ICANN Branding Revolution The word gTLD has been added to the hardcore lexicon of global branding. Why is this new spin causing vertigo to some? Before you say anything else like 'what'? Just hold on. It makes no difference whether you already are an expert on gTLD or not. The fact is it's in your face and we all have to deal with it for a long time, so deal with it. On the internet today, from around the world, there are over 10,000 articles on ICANN's gTLD... more » Nov 30, 2011 - by Naseem Javed - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Domain Names, ICANN, Top-Level Domains Broadband in Emerging Markets Today, over half the world's population now has access to a mobile phone, with 5.37 billion mobile subscriptions and over two billion internet users worldwide by the end of 2010. However, these are more than just bald statistics -- today, modern ICTs are genuinely changing people's lives for the better. more » Nov 30, 2011 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Mobile Moving Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age Now that we're 20 years past TN 2.0, well into the 21st century, and onto the 3rd generation of the web; it is about time we move telephone numbers into the Internet age. They are still managed as if they all connect to four copper wires. We manage to the lowest common denominator rather than acknowledging the power of mobility and Internet technology. more » Nov 30, 2011 - by Tom McGarry - Comments: 0 Related Topics: DNS, Enum, Telecom IANA Checkmate - Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice Shame on Me In connection with the recent publication of the IANA RFP, there have been some commenters that have proclaimed that removing the requirement of the Contractor to document the consensus of relevant stakeholders in connection with the delegation of new gTLDs from the original draft Statement of Work as a win for ICANN. However, when reading the recently revised IANA RFP language in light of the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) Dakar Communiqué, a rather compelling legal case can be made... more » Nov 28, 2011 - by Michael D. Palage - Comments: 2 Related Topics: Domain Names, Registry Services, ICANN, Internet Governance, Law, Regional Registries, Top-Level Domains ARIN Launches WHOWAS: Trial Service Providing Historical Information for a Given IP Address American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is running a trial service that gives users access to historical IP whois data – that is, it will tell you who was responsible for an IP address or block of IPs. The service is not automated and if you want to access it you will need to submit a request via email with information about not only what you want to know, but why you are interested in accessing the information. more » Nov 28, 2011 - by Michele Neylon - Comments: 1 Related Topics: IP Addressing, Whois 2012: The Year of Securing Websites? In a seemingly never-ending row of news on hacks of websites now the news in which 2.3 million individual cases of privacy sensitive data were accessible through a leak in the websites of most public broadcasting stations in the Netherlands. To make the news more cheerful, the accessible data was, if compiled, sufficient to successfully steal a complete identity. What were thoughts that came to my mind after hearing this news on Friday? more » Nov 28, 2011 - by Wout de Natris - Comments: 0 Related Topics: Cybercrime, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Privacy, Security Another Thanksgiving and Another 131 Domain Names Seized by Homeland Security Last year I wrote a post right after Thanksgiving entitled: "While You Were Eating You're Turkey Homeland Security Was Seizing 9 Domains". Well I could have repeated the headline today except the number would be 131 domains rather than just 9. Looks like Homeland Security is going to make domain seizures on Thanksgiving as common in the US as Turkey and Stuffing. more » Nov 25, 2011 - by Michael Berkens - Comments: 1 Related Topics: Domain Names, Internet Governance, Law Brazil: The Newest Up and Comer The Virus Bulletin Conference last month had some good presentations, including this one by Fabio Assolini of Kaspersky. He spoke about how Brazil is the the newest up-and-comer on the cyber crime block. The tale begins with the story of Igor and Emily, two cyber criminals operating out of Brazil. Together, the two of them stole $300,000 US from a single Brazilian bank in one year. more » Nov 23, 2011 - by Terry Zink - Comments: 1 Related Topics: Cybercrime, Law, Malware, Security | Hot Topics • ICANN • DNS • Security • Top-Level Domains • Domain Names • Internet Governance • Policy & Regulation • Registry Services • Cybercrime • Cyberattack • IPv6 • Access Providers • more... Industry Updates Neustar Names Joe Pasqua to Head Neustar Labs Nov 30, 2011 - by Neustar Architelos Launches 'Business Case Builder 2.0' for gTLD Applicants Nov 29, 2011 - by Architelos BlueCat Networks Partners with Computacenter to Deliver Cloud-Ready IP Address Management (IPAM) Nov 22, 2011 - by BlueCat Networks Research Reveals Commercial Potential of the New Top-Level Domain Program Nov 21, 2011 - by ARI Registry Services Sedari in Joint Venture with dot Sydney and dot Melbourne Bidders Nov 21, 2011 - by Sedari Advertise on CircleID If your advertising and marketing objectives entail reaching high-ranking experts and professionals within the IT and Internet industry, CircleID can help you achieve it. Find Out More... |
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