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2011/12/06

CircleID Weekly Wrap for 2011-12-06

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INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE   .   WEEKLY WRAP: Nov 30, 2011 - Dec 06, 2011

News Briefs

U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Holding Full Hearing on New TLDs
Dec 06, 2011  -  Include Your Comments

ICM Announces General Availability of .XXX Domain Names
Dec 06, 2011  -  Include Your Comments

FBI Warns of Cyberattacks Against Banks - Aided by Variant of Zeus Trojan Called 'Gameover'
Dec 01, 2011  -  Include Your Comments

Cloud Computing Traffic Expected to Grow 12-Fold by 2015
Nov 30, 2011  -  Include Your Comments


Featured Blogs

Borders, In Bankruptcy, Aims To Sell 65,536 IPv4 Addresses at $12/Address
With IPv4 address exhaustion upon us, it appears that the going market rate for IPv4 addresses is now $12/address. Over at the Register, Kevin Murphy reports on a bankruptcy filing from Borders seeking to sell a /16 block of to healthcare software vendor Cerner for a total of $786,432. At $12 per IPv4 address, this sets a new public record given that the previous high was Microsoft's acquisition of a block of Nortel IPv4 addresses... more »
Dec 05, 2011  -  by Dan York  -  Comments: 7
Related Topics: IP Addressing, IPv6

Data Tsunami and the Looming Broadband Capacity Crisis
There is such a huge volume of genomics (DNA related data) and bio-informatics data being produced that it cannot be transferred over commercial Internet networks, and instead organizations are using FedX and other sneaker nets to ship the data. The same crisis in data volumes is also occurring in the climate modelling and other fields as well. Research and Education (R&E) networks for many years have been warning about this coming data tsunami. more »
Dec 05, 2011  -  by Bill St. Arnaud  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Broadband, Cloud Computing, Data Center

DNS Measurements with RIPE Atlas Data
As described in New RIPE Atlas Features in the Making, each RIPE Atlas probe performs "anycast instance discovery" measurements. This means, for each DNS root name server, we determine which instance of a name server a probe uses. We compile the data from all probes and build maps showing these results for each Atlas probe. In other words, the map shows the "gravitational radius" for root DNS server instances. more »
Dec 05, 2011  -  by Daniel Karrenberg  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, IP Addressing, Regional Registries

FCC to Hold Two December Workshops on PSTN Transition to New Technologies
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently issued a public notice that it will be holding two workshops on the transition of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to "new technologies" such as voice-over-IP (VoIP). The workshops will be held on December 6 and 14, 2011, at the FCC's office in Washington, DC. The public notice states the goal as... more »
Dec 01, 2011  -  by Dan York  -  Comments: 1
Related Topics: Internet Protocol, Policy & Regulation, VoIP

The Death of TLD Front Running
In an article published over two years ago, I cited a disturbing trend of third parties seeking to obtain national trademark registrations in an apparent attempt to game ICANN's new gTLD process. While many of these applications have withered and died on the vine some have sneaked through. However, it appears that the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) has issued a very well-reasoned and articulate opinion... more »
Dec 01, 2011  -  by Michael D. Palage  -  Comments: 9
Related Topics: Domain Names, ICANN, Internet Governance, Law, Top-Level Domains


Hot Topics

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ICANN
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Industry Updates

Tuesday's NTEN Webinar: PIR's Plans for .NGO
Dec 05, 2011  -  by PIR

Peter Dengate Thrush Interviewed by Silicon Valley Watcher
Dec 02, 2011  -  by Minds + Machines

Sedari Engages Domain Name Industry Expert As COO
Dec 02, 2011  -  by Sedari

Afilias Advises 40 Days Left Before ICANN's Dot Brand Application Window Opens
Dec 02, 2011  -  by Afilias

Professional Services: Your Dream Solution Is A Few Professional Services Hours Away
Dec 01, 2011  -  by Neustar


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