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Featured Blogs What Ever Happened to the Closed Local Internet Registries?
Since the establishment of the RIPE NCC, 5,000 Local Internet Registries (LIRs) have closed. We wanted to find out why. Many of them were probably victims of the burst of the dotcom bubble. But how many? And which countries were mostly affected? How many closures were the results of mergers? We've got answers. more »
Apr 17, 2012 - by Mirjam Kuehne - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Registry Services DNS Resolution, Browsers & Hope For The Future
DNS is not something that most people think about when using the Internet. Neither should they have to: the DNS is just part of the infrastructure in the same way that IP addresses are. The only time a user ought to notice the DNS is when it breaks (and it should never break). If that's true, then we ought to expect any Internet client - including web browsers - to use the very same infrastructure as everything else and for the DNS resolution mechanisms to be the ones offered by the operating system. What makes browsers different? more »
Apr 16, 2012 - by Andrew Sullivan - Comments: 1
Related Topics: DNS, DNSSEC, Web When No Action Is the Wisest Action (ICANN Does Good)
Although ICANN is now getting a lot of ridicule for the "glitch" in its TLD application System, it deserves some praise and respect for the results of its April 10 board meeting. In that meeting, the board showed the involved community - and the rest of the world - that it is no longer going to be stampeded by extra-procedural political pressure to make yet another round of hasty amendments to its new TLD program's policies and procedures. more »
Apr 16, 2012 - by Milton Mueller - Comments: 1
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains TAS Outage Shows Tech Errors Can Happen in Any Organization
Last week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was forced to extend the deadline for the new gTLD application to April 20th, after the application system crashed and the technical issue which enabled some applicants to see file names and user names that belonged to other applicants. ... ICANN's decision to extend the deadline is reasonable in the circumstances. more »
Apr 16, 2012 - by Mohamed EL Bashir - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Top-Level Domains After ICANN's TLD Application System Glitch, Communication Is the Key
There were long faces all over the new gTLD ecosystem yesterday -- applicants, consultants and technical operators alike -- when ICANN took their Application System (TAS) offline and announced that it would not be brought back up for 5 days. As a result, the long-anticipated close of the first new gTLD application window was pushed back from April 12 to April 20, 23:59 UTC. You could almost hear the groans of dismay spreading over social cyberspace! more »
Apr 13, 2012 - by Stéphane Van Gelder - Comments: 16
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Top-Level Domains Is the New Top-Level Domains "Technical Issue" a Harbinger of Future gTLD Issues?
Does the "technical issue" announced today in ICANN's TLD Application System (TAS) and the subsequent extension of the submission deadline call into question the stability and integrity of the new gTLD program? This development underscores the notion that ICANN could consider a more metered and staged approach to the introduction of gTLDs... more »
Apr 12, 2012 - by Frederick Felman - Comments: 1
Related Topics: ICANN, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains Mac Hit by Another Wave of Malware… Users in Denial?
In case you haven't been watching cyber news recently, last week various security researchers published that Macs were infected by the Flashback Trojan and that the total number of infections worldwide was 600,000. This number was published by a couple of blogs. I debated writing about this topic since we had a previous Mac outbreak last year that initially spiked up, caused Apple to go into denial about the affair before issuing a fix, and then the malware kind of went away. Will this follow the same pattern? more »
Apr 12, 2012 - by Terry Zink - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Malware, Security ICANN Takes "Fail" To A Whole New Level
Today is April 12 2012. It's also meant to be the day that the new TLD application window closes. Now it's not. ICANN has spectacularly failed to manage the new TLD process and will miss its own deadline by over a week... In a rather badly worded announcement ICANN states that it's extending the deadline for online applications (the only way to apply) until April 20th at 23:59 UTC. more »
Apr 12, 2012 - by Michele Neylon - Comments: 1
Related Topics: ICANN, Top-Level Domains The Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) Deception
Most of the good thrillers I tend to watch have spies and assassins in them for some diabolical reason. In those movies you'll often find their target, the Archduke of Villainess, holed up in some remote local and the spy has to fake an identity in order to penetrate the layers of defense. Almost without exception the spy enters the country using a fake passport; relying upon a passport from any country other than their own... So, with that bit of non-fiction in mind, why do so many people automatically assume that cyber-attacks sourced from IP addresses within China are targeted, state-sponsored, attacks? more »
Apr 11, 2012 - by Gunter Ollmann - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Cyberattack, Security Intune Collapses the OSI Model
While a great deal of attention has recently been paid to the enormous amount of change that is taking place at the edge of the network with smartphones, tablets, apps, Web2.0 etc, massive changes are also underway on the network side. The current network has been designed over a period of thirty years and it is due for a serious overhaul to keep abreast of changes in the industry in general. more »
Apr 11, 2012 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Broadband, Internet Protocol BYOD Woes and Worries
Like the scene of a movie in which a biblical character holds back the mighty sea and is about to release the tide against his foes, BYOD has become a force of nature poised to flood those charged with keeping corporate systems secure. Despite years of practice hardening systems and enforcing policies that restrict what can and can't be done within the corporate network, businesses are under increasing (if not insurmountable) pressure to allow a diversifying number of personal devices to connect to their networks and be used for business operations. more »
Apr 09, 2012 - by Gunter Ollmann - Comments: 3
Related Topics: Security The Empire Fights Back!
Even as we increasingly discover that every facet of our modern lives now revolve around, and are dependent on the Internet, for which reason its availability, functionality, safety, stability and security are now of great and continuing concern to all of us. These issues have a profound impact on its overall governance. To most of us, during the past three decades, the Internet has always been available, stable, affordable and open; and it should continue this way even as it is controlled and administered in a secure manner... more »
Apr 05, 2012 - by Sophia Bekele - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Censorship, ICANN, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation, Privacy Slowly Cracking the DNSSEC Code at ICANN 43
As regular readers know, ICANN holds lengthy, in-depth discussions devoted to DNSSEC at each of its three annual meetings. The half-day session held at ICANN 43 in Costa Rica last month was particularly interesting. What became clear is that the industry is quickly moving into the end-user adoption phase of global DNSSEC deployment. more »
Apr 05, 2012 - by Ram Mohan - Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, DNSSEC, ICANN, Security Bandwidth is Bust - Managing True Fundamental Network Resources, Not Fantasy Ones
I recently shared the idea that there is a new category of network architecture, the Network of Probabilities. This differs from classical circuits (Network of Promises) or best-effort packet data (Network of Possibilities). I personally believe it's the next revolution in telecoms. What's new is that it provides a trading space for allocating contention between flows, and does this with some novel applied mathematics. more »
Apr 05, 2012 - by Martin Geddes - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Telecom Feared by the Bad, Loved by the Good: Robin Hood
The eccentricities of California-based ICANN, the allocator of domain names, know few bounds. Based on the best of legal advice, though perhaps not the best of PR advice, it's Board has announced the system for allocating priority in the processing of around 1000 weighty applications for new top-level domain names. It has described the system, with all seriousness, as Digital Archery. A description that just begs for comparison with the English folk hero, Robin Hood. more »
Apr 05, 2012 - by Philip Sheppard - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Top-Level Domains
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