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Featured Blogs A Look at Closed vs. Open New gTLDs
The essay analyzes some of the strengths and weaknesses of closed and open new gTLDs. The success of the gTLD to a large degree rests on the successful design and implementation of an effective digital business model. A closed gTLD is one whose owner uses it for exclusive content - for example, the use of .book exclusively for Amazon books. Conversely, if Amazon opens up .book, other book sellers and libraries would be able to set up sub-domains, sites where they controlled content. more »
Aug 12, 2013 - by Alex Tajirian - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Domain Names, ICANN, Top-Level Domains What's Up With WEIRDS?
The IETF WEIRDS working group is defining a follow-on to WHOIS. Since this is the IETF, it's working on the technical issues about which it can deal with, not policy which is up to ICANN and the country registries. Somewhat to my surprise, the group is making steady progress. We've agreed that the basic model is RESTful, with queries via http, and responses as JSON data structures. The protocol is named RDAP for Registration Data Access Protocol, or maybe RESTful Data Access protocol. more »
Aug 12, 2013 - by John Levine - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Top-Level Domains, Whois Providers Eye OTT Content at The Independent Show 2013
The future of broadband was the main focus of The Independent Show 2013. In particular, the event highlighted how the convergence of video, phone, Internet, and wireless broadband is shaping the industry. As with previous years, the show focused strongly on the programming community and there was no shortage of new, emerging programming to keep attendees interested. One of the breakout sessions focused on the growth of high-quality over-the-top (OTT) content distribution and how NCTC members could take advantage of this trend to target subscribers drifting away from traditional cable. more »
Aug 09, 2013 - by Jin Yip Kong - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Broadband When an IP Address Does Not Equal Individual Culpability - Breaking Glass Pictures v Does, DAZ 2013
Something bad happens online. I can tie that something-bad back to an IP address. Do I know who did the bad thing? According to the Federal District Court in Arizona, I don't. An IP address may identify the owner of an Internet access account; it does not identify who was online at that particular time and who may be responsible for the actions in question. In Breaking Glass Pictures v Does, DAZ 2013, Plaintiff brought a claim for copyright infringement, wants early discovery, but the court is refusing. more »
Aug 07, 2013 - by Robert Cannon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, IP Addressing, Law, Policy & Regulation, Security New gTLD SSR-2: Exploratory Consumer Impact Analysis (Part 5 of 5)
Throughout this series of blog posts we've discussed a number of issues related to security, stability, and resilience of the DNS ecosystem, particularly as we approach the rollout of new gTLDs. Additionally, we highlighted a number of issues that we believe are outstanding and need to be resolved before the safe introduction of new gTLDs can occur - and we tried to provide some context as to why, all the while continuously highlighting that nearly all of these unresolved recommendations came from parties in addition to Verisign over the last several years. more »
Aug 06, 2013 - by Danny McPherson - Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, Domain Names, ICANN, Security, Top-Level Domains The Long Gestation and Afterlife of New gTLDs
ICANN continues to flail, pointlessly. The latest in a series of missteps that could easily have been avoided is its recommendations on what to do about a report on the potential for confusion and misaddressing when someone's internal network names match the name for a new gTLD, and they have misconfigured their routers and/or DNS to the extent that someone typing in a new gTLD name might end up in the middle of someone else's network. more »
Aug 06, 2013 - by Antony Van Couvering - Comments: 5
Related Topics: DNS, ICANN, Internet Governance, Top-Level Domains Network Security: How Attackers Gain Access from Inside
Most people - mistakenly - believe that they are perfectly safe behind a firewall, network address translation (NAT) device or proxy. The fact is quite the opposite: if you can get out of your network, someone else can get in. Attackers often seek to compromise the weakest link in a network and then use that access to attack the network from the inside, commonly known as a "pivot-and-attack." more »
Aug 05, 2013 - by Josh Wilson - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cyberattack, Malware, Security Singular and Plural New gTLDs: Costly Headaches
ICANN has recently stated that it will allow the public to register plural and singular gTLDs that are variants of words already registered as domain names. .Books will be able to join the currently allocated .book, and .pet will be able to join .pets. Of course, a pair like .blue and .blues, two words that look alike but have different meanings, isn't at issue here. The focus is just plurals and singulars. But that leaves plenty of room for trouble, and ICANN has to tackle some tough questions now, before the policy launch. more »
Aug 04, 2013 - by Alex Tajirian - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Domain Names, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains The Sexist Men In Tech Need to Grow Up, Now
These days, I've seen many breathless posts about how 'we' "need" to encourage girls to study math so eventually they become computer or other sorts of geeks. Personally, I don't think technology is the only valuable thing in the world; writing, music, and the rest of the arts, medicine, human relations, politics, and so on are pretty important things too, and let's face it content was, is, and will always be king. That said if men continue to act like jerks, it is no wonder women will go into anything but technology. more »
Aug 03, 2013 - by Neil Schwartzman - Comments: 3
Related Topics: Policy & Regulation How Safe is FttH?
My blog 'What PRISM, credit card hacking and Chromecast have to do with FttH' led to some very interesting discussions all around the world. One of issues that was discussed was that the sheer capacity of FttH will also allow hackers, criminals and others to use that massive capacity for the wrong reasons. Its volume will make it increasingly difficult to police. more »
Aug 02, 2013 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Broadband, Cyberattack, Cybercrime, Security Internet Society Launches Questionnaire on Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance
The Internet Society today announced the launch of a survey to gain greater insights into multistakeholder governance perceptions and processes at all levels - national, regional, and international. The questionnaire is open to all interested participants and is available until 30 September 2013. The survey is one component of the Internet Society's broader initiative focused on the open and sustainable Internet. more »
Aug 02, 2013 - by Konstantinos Komaitis - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Web ICANN 47: Policy Debates and Cautious Optimism
A strange feeling came over me after I got home from ICANN 47 in Durban, something I haven't felt after an ICANN meeting before. The feeling? Optimism. I'm optimistic, albeit cautiously so, about the future of ICANN and by extension, hopefully that of Internet governance in general. If the meeting in Durban is any indication, we've come a long way in the past year. There were no indicted war criminals invited to dinner. And though it may be too soon to say for sure, I don't think a letter will be sent to the government of South Africa about the quality of the hotel. more »
Aug 01, 2013 - by Byron Holland - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains The World of Internet Threats Is Constantly Changing
The world of Internet threats has changed continually over the years. From the time that a "worm" first showed up in the wild, or whenever someone penetrated a system without authorization for the first time, various forms of attacks and malware have presented dangers to the system and those who use it. Different vectors have received varied focus over the years... Many parts of the Internet community have been involved in addressing relevant issues and fostering efforts to combat them. more »
Aug 01, 2013 - by Don Blumenthal - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cyberattack, DDoS, Registry Services, Malware, Security, Top-Level Domains Polish CERT Polska and NASK Pull the Plug On .pl TLD On Malicious Registrar, Domain Silver
Today we publish an overview of domains registered through Domain Silver, Inc, a registrar operating in the .pl domain. This Registrar started operating in May 2012. Since that time, the CERT Polska team started to observe a large increase in the amount of malicious domains registered in .pl and to receive many complaints concerning domains registered through Domain Silver. more »
Jul 31, 2013 - by Neil Schwartzman - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Registry Services, Malware, Security, Spam, Top-Level Domains NXDOMAINS, SSAC's SAC045, and New gTLDs (Part 4 of 5)
In 2010, ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) published SAC045 [PDF], a report calling attention to particular problems that may arise should a new gTLD applicant use a string that has been seen with measureable (and meaningful) frequency in queries for resolution by the root system. The queries to which they referred involved invalid Top-Level Domain (TLD) queries (i.e., non-delegated strings) at the root level of DNS, queries which elicit responses commonly referred to as Name Error, or NXDomain, responses from root name servers. more »
Jul 31, 2013 - by Danny McPherson - Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, ICANN, Security, Top-Level Domains Making Sense of MIIT's Category of Telecommunications Services
This morning I read a catchy titled article on CircleID "China Closing the Door to New Technologies". I was trying to make sense of what all the fuss is about... So I called up my friends in Ministry of Industry and Information (MIIT) for lunch to find out what's going. more »
Jul 31, 2013 - by James Seng - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Cloud Computing, Domain Names, Policy & Regulation, Telecom 5 Steps to Prepare for a DDOS Attack
As more people are realizing that in today's cyber climate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a matter of when, not if, the most common question I get asked is "What can I do to prepare?" I like to break it down into 5 key steps enterprises can take now to be prepared for a future attack... It would take a book to cover all of these topics in depth. Hopefully this will at least give you, some things to think about and plan for with your DDoS mitigation strategy. more »
Jul 31, 2013 - by Sean Leach - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cyberattack, DDoS, Security Tactics for Responding to Cyber Attacks - Squeezing Your Cyber Response-Curve: Part 2
In part one of this post we introduced the cyber response curve. In this post, we have outlined some observations which illustrate how different level of maturity and approaches can affect your cyber response curve. more »
Jul 31, 2013 - by Colin McKinty - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cyberattack, DDoS, Security China Closing the Door to New Technologies
2013 may be a promising year for global trade in technology with the kick-off of the International Technology Agreement expansion discussions, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and as the Trade in Services Agreement gets going. But China calls its own tune, and is now threatening to restrict its market for Internet-enabled technologies through a clever device that could cost its trading partners billions. more »
Jul 30, 2013 - by Molly McPherson - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Policy & Regulation, Telecom On the Question of Closed Generic Top-Level Domains
The debate over so-called "closed generic" top-level domains has revealed that rarest of semi-mythical beasts, a creature often emblazoned in ICANN heraldry but as elusive as the unicorn on the UK royal coat of arms: an argument on principle. Occasionally an issue arises out of the muck of self-interested manoeuvring to reveal the deep idealism that moves most ICANN participants. You can see it by how it divides camps that usually march along in lock-step, and by how the predictable murmur of shopworn cliches is replaced by arguments of clarity and resonance. more »
Jul 30, 2013 - by Antony Van Couvering - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, ICANN, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains The NameSentry Report: Benchmarking Abuse Levels in the Domain Name Industry
On July 10th Architelos released the first NameSentry Report, benchmarking abuse levels in the domain name industry. For some time now, a debate has raged about the potential impact of new gTLDs on Internet safety and security, namely abusive registrations such as phishing, spam, malware, and so on. However, without benchmarking the current state, how can we realistically evaluate if new gTLDs have made any measureable difference in the level of abuse? more »
Jul 30, 2013 - by Alexa Raad - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cybercrime, DNS, Domain Names, Registry Services, Security, Top-Level Domains Paths of Glory: Privacy Still Matters
The world has changed dramatically for the better over the last 15 years, mainly due to the commercialization of the Internet. That is what I would like to believe. Unfortunately, I am no longer sure. True, the Internet connects all of us with every corner of the world... For the rest, the times may be changing, because there are those who believe that the Internet should be molded to fit those same old bureaucracies and corrupted institutions that have plagued humanity for decades, if not centuries. The solution, many times, feels far out of reach. more »
Jul 29, 2013 - by Roy Balleste - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Law, Privacy Can We Create a Secure Caller ID For VoIP?
Can we create a "secure Caller ID" for IP-based communications, a.k.a. voice-over-IP (VoIP)? And specifically for VoIP based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)? Can we create a way to securely identify the origin of a call that can be used to combat robocalling, phishing and telephony denial-of-service (TDOS) attacks? That is the challenge to be undertaken by the "Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR)" group meeting tomorrow morning, July 30, 2013, at 9:00 am in Berlin, Germany, as part of the 87th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). more »
Jul 29, 2013 - by Dan York - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Protocol, Security, Telecom, VoIP Voluntary Initiatives As a Source of Policy-Making on the Internet
For many years, I have observed that the Internet is adopting many self-regulation frameworks to address a variety of issues. Indeed the Internet has benefited from self-regulation as an efficient way to address jurisdictional conflicts -- particularly as compared to traditional law making. Since the Internet is global, jurisdiction is often the most difficult policy issue to address. To this end, voluntary initiatives are becoming increasingly popular in the digital space due to their ability to address dynamically issues related to the Internet. more »
Jul 29, 2013 - by Konstantinos Komaitis - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation Why the Opus Codec Matters - Even if You Don't Care About Audio
What makes the Opus codec so interesting? Why is there such a buzz about Opus right now? If you are not in telecom or doing anything with audio, why should you even remotely care about Opus? In a word... Innovation! And because Opus has the potential to let us communicate with each other across the Internet with a richer and more natural sound. You will be able to hear people or music or presenters with much more clarity and more like you are right there with them. more »
Jul 27, 2013 - by Dan York - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Protocol, Telecom, VoIP, Web The Internet: Missing the Light
Today's Internet is wonderful for solving hard problems such as connecting to Amazon to buy goods or for using Netflix. Amazon and Netflix, among others, demonstrate what is possible if you put in enough effort. Yet if we are to understand the Internet we need to look beyond those applications to the simplest application such as sending one bit of information from a light switch to a light fixture. more »
Jul 26, 2013 - by Bob Frankston - Comments: 12
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, DNS, IP Addressing, Telecom Chromecast Set to Revolutionise the TV
The principle behind Chromecast is probably the magic formula that is needed to finally revolutionise television watching. Google's latest product was launched yesterday... TV revolution didn't come from the traditional broadcasters or their suppliers. Everything developed by them has been aimed more at protecting their traditional business than at looking for completely new opportunities - truly new TV innovations will most certainly come from the direction that the broader market has taken since the arrival of the smartphones and the tablets. more »
Jul 26, 2013 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 8
Related Topics: Broadband, IPTV What's Happening With Aug. 13 Applicant Auction to Resolve gTLD Contention?
The second Applicant Auction is coming up on August 13, and after a great round of workshops at the ICANN Conference in Durban, we've started to finalize all of the details. Any applicants who haven't indicated their intention to participate can still do so! more »
Jul 26, 2013 - by Sheel Mohnot - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Top-Level Domains Avoiding an ICANN Monopoly on Policy
With all the focus in the TLD world on the imminent arrival of more than a thousand new TLDs and the still unfinished discussions within ICANN on what policy framework those TLDs will need to follow, it is often forgotten that there are hundreds of other TLD policy frameworks that are mature, stable and well tested. These of course are the ccTLD policy frameworks that have been actively developed over 20 years. more »
Jul 25, 2013 - by Jay Daley - Comments: 8
Related Topics: DNS, Domain Names, Registry Services, ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains, Whois
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