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2014/07/22

CircleID Weekly Wrap for 2014-07-22

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INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE   .   WEEKLY WRAP: Jul 16, 2014 - Jul 22, 2014

News Briefs

Netflix Passes 50M Subscribers Worldwide
Jul 22, 2014  -  Include Your Comments

China's Internet Users Pass 632 Million, 83 Percent Online Via Mobile
Jul 21, 2014  -  Include Your Comments

Impartiality of Dot Pharmacy TLD Questioned
Jul 21, 2014  -  Include Your Comments


Featured Blogs

Live Today: IXPs and the Relationship Between Geography and Network Topology
Today at 5:10pm EDT the IETF 90 Technical Plenary will be streamed live out of Toronto, Canada... After some initial reports, the technical focus will be on "Network topology and geography." The session will be recorded for later viewing. The slides are online and from what I can see it should be a very interesting talk for those of interested in the underlying infrastructure of the Internet. more »
Jul 21, 2014  -  by Dan York  -  Comments: 2
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband

AXIS - The Fulcrum of Africa's Internet Success
The Internet Society (ISOC) has been working with the African Union (AU) to facilitate the African Internet Exchange System (AXIS). This AXIS project funded by the EU-Africa Infrastructure Trust Fund and the Government of Luxembourg will help keep Internet traffic in Africa internal to the continent and avoid expensive international transit costs and delay latency in routing Internet traffic through other continents. more »
Jul 20, 2014  -  by Mwendwa Kivuva  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Data Center, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Telecom

Watch LIVE: Edward Snowden at HOPE-X Today at 2:00pm EDT (18:00 UTC)
Whether you view Edward Snowden as a criminal or a hero, or somewhere in between, you cannot dispute that his revelations about pervasive surveillance have changed the discussions about the Internet on both technology and policy levels. If you are interested in hearing what Edward Snowden has to say himself, he is scheduled to speak today, Saturday, July 19, 2014, at 2:00pm US EDT at the HOPE-X conference in New York City. more »
Jul 19, 2014  -  by Dan York  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Privacy, Security

Who's Who in the New Dot Brandscape - And Why Should You Care?
Let's go to the scoreboard. There are 1751 applications for new top-level domains. Nearly 1/3 (635) are brands. The rest are generics (e.g. .Buzz) and geographies (e.g .NYC). So, brands are definitely interested in new TLDs - and a handful of major industries have jumped into the lead. If you're in any of those verticals, it's time to pay attention. Your competitors may be giving your customers new ways to reach out, learn and buy from them. more »
Jul 19, 2014  -  by Jason Loyer  -  Comments: 1
Related Topics: Top-Level Domains

A Great Bit of DNSSEC and DNS at IETF 90 Next Week
For those people tracking the evolution and deployment of DNSSEC or who are just interested in "DNS security" in general there is a great amount of activity happening next week at IETF 90 in Toronto. I dove into this activity in great detail in a recent post, "Rough Guide to IETF 90: DNSSEC, DANE and DNS Security", and summarized the activity in a Deploy360 post... more »
Jul 18, 2014  -  by Dan York  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: DNS, DNS Security, Security

Connectivity Policy and the Open Internet
The goal of public policy for connectivity should be to assure access to our common facilities as a public good by adopting sustainable business models that don't put owners and users at odds with each other. Such balances are typically difficult to achieve which is what makes connectivity so unusual - we can achieve both once we fund the facilities as a public good apart from the particular applications such as telephone calls and cable content. more »
Jul 17, 2014  -  by Bob Frankston  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Internet Governance, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation, Telecom

France Wants IGF Replaced by World Internet Council
Last week, the French Senate unveiled a proposal which, if enacted, would bring sweeping changes to the Internet Governance landscape. A Senate working group worked on the proposal for 6 months. Although it is not only focussed on IG, the report can be seen as a further indictment of ICANN, following French Secretary for the Digital Economy Axelle Lemaire's claim that the organisation is no longer the right place to discuss IG. more »
Jul 16, 2014  -  by Stéphane Van Gelder  -  Comments: 1
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance


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Industry Updates

ICANN London Recap Webinar
Jul 15, 2014  -  by MarkMonitor

Four Reasons to Move from .COM to Your .BRAND Domain
Jul 14, 2014  -  by Neustar

DotConnectAfrica Delegates Attend the Kenya Internet Governance Forum
Jul 09, 2014  -  by DotConnectAfrica

Neustar to Launch usTLD Stakeholder Council
Jul 08, 2014  -  by Neustar

Introducing the New .ORGANIC Domain: A Trusted, Credible Space for Organic Products on the Web
Jul 07, 2014  -  by Afilias


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