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 • Domain Names • DNS • Top-Level Domains • ICANN • Registry Services • Security • Internet Governance • Policy & Regulation • Cybercrime • IPv6 • IP Addressing • Malware • more... 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 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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