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| Feb 17, 2026 | Что это было? Куда пропал китайский протокол IPV9 | В конце 1990-х в Китае заявили о намерении создать интернет нового поколения и продвигать протокол IPV9. Почти три десятилетия спустя вокруг этой инициативы остается немало вопросов — особенно на фоне официального курса страны на IPv6. Обсу... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Китай выходит на один уровень с США в космосе: что происходит | Если вы следите за космическими новостями, то наверняка заметили, как Китай все активнее работает на орбите и за ней. Пока в США разбираются с переносами запусков Artemis и тестируют Starship, Пекин отправляет ракеты, развивает станции и ст... |
| Nov 30, 2024 | The Digital Surge: Black Friday's Impact on E-Commerce in Australia and New Zealand | As the sun sets on November, a digital wave crashes over Australia and New Zealand. Black Friday, once an American shopping spectacle, has morphed into a global phenomenon. This year, the data tells a compelling story of growth, anticipatio... |
| Nov 30, 2024 | Как идет миграция на IPv6 — мнения и версии | В прошлый раз мы говорили о протоколе QUIC, который должен был стать предвестником нового интернета, но все еще далеко не во всем превосходит TCP. Сегодня вернемся к теме IPv6: недавно Джефф Хьюстон, главный научный сотрудник интернет-регис... |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Проект Usenet: 60 петабайт текста и полная децентрализация на акустических модемах | Когда Тим Бернерс-Ли в ранних 90-х представил технологии, определившие будущую Всемирную паутину, в мире уже не одно десятилетие существовала по-настоящему децентрализованная компьютерная сеть с довольно богатым контентом и открытым доступо... |
| Oct 21, 2023 | FCC, общественный интернет и 5G: что с сетевым нейтралитетом | В июне мы говорили о затянувшемся кризисе в США из-за попыток реформировать сетевой нейтралитет, а также об инициативах по усилению позиций интернет-провайдеров в разных странах. Разберем, что изменилось с тех пор.
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| Aug 1, 2022 | Что там со спросом и ценами на IPv4 | Скорость внедрения IPv6 постепенно увеличивается. Но процесс все равно идет медленно. Этот факт отражается на стоимости адресов IPv4. Рассмотрим, как меняется ситуация и какие меры предпринимает сообщество, чтобы стабилизировать цены.Фото: ... |
| May 26, 2021 | VERISIGN. INC.
VeriSign : IRP Panel Dismisses Afilias' Claims to Reverse .WEB Auction and Award .WEB to Afilias | On Thursday, May 20, a final decision was issued in the Independent Review Process (IRP) brought by Afilias against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), rejecting Afilias' petition to nullify the results of ... |
| May 26, 2021 | VeriSign : IRP Panel Dismisses Afilias' Claims to Reverse .WEB Auction and Award .WEB to Afilias | On Thursday, May 20, a final decision was issued in the Independent Review Process (IRP) brought by Afilias against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), rejecting Afilias' petition to nullify the results of ... |
| Jan 10, 2021 | SpaceX has darkened its Starlink internet satellites with visors to avoid disrupting the night sky — but they can still ruin astronomers’ data | The first batch of 60 high-speed Starlink internet satellites, each weighing about 500 pounds, flat-packed into a stack prior to their launch on May 23, 2019. SpaceX via Twitter
SpaceX added sun visors to its Starlink internet satellites to... |
| Jan 7, 2021 | How to be cyber-resilient to head off cybersecurity disasters | Image: solarseven, Getty Images/iStockphoto
Who’d have thought, “It’s no longer a question of if, but when” would become a time-worn cliche on cybercrime? But it has. Financial losses, scarred reputations, and customer mistrust seem to indi... |
| Aug 10, 2020 | How phishing attacks have exploited the US Small Business Administration | Image: GrafVishenka, Getty Images/iStockPhotos Must-read security coverage
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| Feb 7, 2020 | DAN.com, an Amsterdam-based domain marketplace startup, raises multi-million dollar Series A funding to disrupt the $10 billion domain industry | Are you thinking of of starting a new business or startup only to find out that the domain name you wanted was no longer available for registration? You are not alone. Since the Internet gold rush started 37 years ago, many early adopters w... |
| May 8, 2018 | The Role of Norms in Internet Security: Reputation and its Limits | Who maintains the security and stability of the internet—and how do they do it? It’s a simple question, but a difficult one to answer. Internet security, writ large, comprises a diverse set of social and technical tools and an equally diver... |
| Oct 5, 2016 | The silent evolution of domain names | Alan Dunn Contributor
Alan Dunn is the managing director of NameCorp and a senior digital naming expert and brand consultant.
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| Aug 23, 2016 | Think Tank That First Proposed SOPA Now Claims 'Proof' That SOPA Would Have Been Great | Oh boy. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is a DC-based think tank that, from it’s name, you might think would promote things that are important for innovation. And yet, this misleadingly named think tank has been ... |
| Aug 10, 2016 | Project Sauron | I'm sure that co-bloggers will give you all the technical details, but for now it is worth noting that a new malware program known as "Project Sauron" has been discovered. The program is incredibly sophisticated, was undetect... |
| May 26, 2015 | What ‘the biggest company you’ve never heard of’ thinks about those new top-level domains | Don’t go mourning the death of your .com domain just yet.
Four years ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced it would be increasing the number of available top-level domains (TLDs). Since then, compani... |
| Apr 14, 2015 | Significant Marketing Efforts Still Needed For gTLDs | It appears that the both the domain name industry and businesses opting to use new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) may have a great deal of marketing to do to spread awareness about gTLDs. Most consumers are not familiar with the initiati... |
| Mar 1, 2015 | Solutions for Your Cloud Computing Struggles | Perhaps it’s a case of unrealistic expectations or simple lack of preparation, but companies that adopt cloud computing are finding that using it is a greater challenge than anticipated. That’s not to take away from the many benefits that t... |
| Dec 19, 2014 | After Silk Road Raid, the Dark Net Is 'Darker Than Ever' | Last month's FBI raid on Silk Road 2.0 has done little to slow the drug, weapon, and stolen identity trade on the dark net—in fact, shutting down the relatively tame Silk Road created a vacuum that was immediately filled with sites tha... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | The MPAA's Secret Plan To Reinterpret The DMCA Into A Vast Censorship Machine That Breaks The Core Workings Of The Internet | Yes, all the attention these days about the Sony hack is on the decision to not release The Interview, but it still seems like the big story to come out of the hack is the sneaky plans of the MPAA in its bizarre infatuation with attacking t... |
| Oct 14, 2014 | Public cloud security flaws: who’s viewing your files? | Secure cloud storage is a challenge facing many professionals today, especially small and mid-sized businesses. It’s clear that the cloud is going to stick around for a long time, and so everyone is looking for a way to get on board with it... |
| Mar 9, 2013 | If It Gets Them, Google May Open .Search, .App, .Blog And .Cloud gTLDs To The Public | If Google is awarded the right to manage the domain registrations for .search, .app, .blog and .cloud, there is now a good chance that it won’t just use them for its own services and will open them up for non-Google properties, too. Last ye... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | Will The ITU's Increasing Focus On Control And Surveillance Split The Internet? | Techdirt covered the WCIT circus in Dubai in some depth last year, since important issues were at stake. As many feared, after a moment of farce, it became clear that a serious schism in the ITU was opening up — between those who wanted the... |
| Jan 30, 2013 | ICANN Boss: We're Not Ready To Launch These Half-Baked New gTLDs, So Let's Launch Them | We’ve talked about the fact that the whole “generic top level domain” (gTLD) process was hopelessly corrupt, as it was more or less driven by those who sought to profit from the system — folks who ran (or hoped to run) domain registration o... |
| Oct 8, 2012 | Google Faces Potential Class-Action Lawsuit In Canada Over Gmail Privacy Concerns | Wayne Plimmer, a retiree living in Sechelt, British Columbia, filed a class action lawsuit against Google last week. In it, he and his attorney allege that Google’s Gmail service “intercepts, obtains and uses personal information it collect... |
| Oct 8, 2012 | Why You Should Be Worried About The ITU's Bizarre Claim To Have A Mandate Over Internet Security | We just recently wrote about how the UN’s ITU (International Telecommunications Union) has been seeking to massively expand its mandate to take over international governance issues related to the internet, based on no real mandate other tha... |
| Jun 5, 2012 | Donuts bags $100M to bring domains like .bearclaw & .jellyfilled to market | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jun 5, 2012 | Donuts bags $100M to bring domains like .bearclaw & .jellyfilled to market | Donuts, the deliciously named domain registry startup, closed a very sweet $100 million mega round of funding, the company announced today.
Donuts is focused on becoming a new registry for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), or the domain ex... |
| Feb 17, 2012 | How The Megaupload Shutdown Has Put 'Cloud Computing' Business Plans At Risk | As you recall, last month’s SOPA/PIPA protests were followed the very next day by the US government shutting down Megaupload. While there have been plenty of discussions about the wider implications of the January 18th anti-SOPA/PIPA protes... |
| Jan 12, 2012 | Paul Vixie Explains, In Great Detail, Why You Don't Want 'Policy Analysts' Determining DNS Rules | There’s been plenty of talk, obviously, about the problems with SOPA and PIPA and how they treat DNS as a tool for blocking, despite the massive problems it causes for security efforts like DNSSEC. Every single working engineer who’s spoken... |
| Dec 23, 2011 | The Myth That SOPA & PIPA Will Stop Infringement By 'Educating' The Public | One of the key arguments we’ve heard about SOPA and PIPA in defending the fact that dedicated infringers will always find their way around the blocks to continue infringing, is that it’s really intended as an “educational” mechanism, based ... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | How One Unverified Claim Of A $7,500 'Loss' From Cybercrime Translates To $1.5 Billion In Losses In The Press | I think we should just admit that there’s a “cyber-” inflation factor. That is, for anything in which someone puts a prefix of “cyber-” before a word, we can assume that reports of the “impact” are going to be massively inflated. Cyberwar? ... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | ICANN opens the floodgates on top-level domains | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Jun 20, 2011 | ICANN opens the floodgates on top-level domains | ICANN, a nonprofit overseeing IP address spaces, voted Monday to approve extending the number of available top-level domain extensions, or TLDs. No longer will companies and organizations be restricted to the 22 existing extensions like .co... |
| May 26, 2011 | The 18 Senators Who Approve Breaking The Internet To Protect Hollywood | Last fall, we noted that the Senate Judiciary Committee had unanimously voted to approve COICA, a bill for censoring the internet as a favor to the entertainment industry. Thankfully, Senator Ron Wyden stepped up and blocked COICA from prog... |
| May 3, 2011 | Microsoft Reaches Agreement in Bid To Buy Nortel's IPv4 Addresses | News Microsoft Reaches Agreement in Bid To Buy Nortel's IPv4 Addresses By William JacksonMay 03, 2011
Microsoft has entered a legacy agreement with the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) over its purchase of Nortel's IP... |
| May 3, 2011 | Microsoft Reaches Agreement in Bid To Buy Nortel's IPv4 Addresses | News Microsoft Reaches Agreement in Bid To Buy Nortel's IPv4 Addresses By William JacksonMay 03, 2011
Microsoft has entered a legacy agreement with the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) over its purchase of Nortel's IP... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | The New XXX Domain Won't Protect Kids From Porn, but It'll Cost Big Bucks Anyway | After protests and years of controversy, ICANN has finally approved the .xxx domain and will start making addresses available as early as this summer. The new domain will fail miserably at its ostensible mission of protecting kids from porn... |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Paul Vixie Explains Why COICA Is A Really Dumb Idea | If you don’t know who Paul Vixie is, you should. When Vixie speaks about something concerning the underlying state of the internet — or, more specifically, a ridiculously stupid government plan to do something involving the underlying state... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | Three Headlines About The US Government And The Internet | Paul Keating points us to an amusing (if somewhat disturbing) juxtaposition of three headlines — one after the other — on the CircleID website: In case you can’t see the image, these are the three headlines: |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Time To Stop Being So Fascinated With The Cyber- Part Of Cybercrime | In the past, we’ve noted that when technology is somehow involved in a crime, suddenly people (and especially the press) seem to forget about the actual crime that’s happening and focus just on the technology. It appears others are noticing... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Spamhaus Asks Court To Dump Even The $27,000 Award To Spammer | Back in June we wrote about how the years-long lawsuit between “email marketing” (i.e., “spam”) company e360 and anti-spam group Spamhaus concluded with a judge reducing an $11 million award down to just $27,000 for e360. If you don’t recal... |
| Jun 23, 2010 | How to Broker a Net Neutrality Deal: Take It To the Back Room | The fight over whether the FCC will control broadband service by instituting "net neutrality" has been angry and bitter. Now the FCC is apparently brokering a compromise with carriers. A back room deal always smells odious, but in... |
| May 6, 2010 | Are Domain Disputes Suffering From Arbitrators Arbitrarily Cutting & Pasting Decisions? | JJ sends over this post concerning some troubling evidence that folks from the National Arbitration Forum, who are involved in domain name disputes, have been doing an awful lot of cutting and pasting from earlier decisions in creating thei... |
| Jan 27, 2010 | Apple iPad Price, Features Say "ARM" All Over | Here's what you need to know about the iPad: it's a 9.7-inch touchscreen pad that's half an inch thick, sports WiFi and 3G, and runs apps, reads e-books and lasts 10 hours on a charge. And it's one of the best things to ... |
| Jan 7, 2010 | Should ISPs And Registrars Be Responsible For Bogus Online Pharmaceutical Sites? | Michael Scott points us to an article at CircleID that appears to be little more than a disguised press release for a company pitching “brand protection service,” suggesting that registrars and ISPs need to crack down on illegal online phar... |
| Oct 25, 2009 | Facebook Settlement Gets Judge’s OK | Proposal Would Kill Beacon, Have Facebook Paying $9.5 Million
Late last week, a federal judge in California gave preliminary approval to a settlement of the class action lawsuit regarding Facebook’s Beacon program. The controversial program... |
| Oct 20, 2009 | Zombie Spam Blacklists Return From The Dead To Make A Point | I have to admit that I don’t follow the “spam” world as closely as I used to, but I remember back around 2003, one of the hot topics was whether or not the various spam blacklists went too far at times. The anti-spam fighters behind those l... |
| Aug 28, 2009 | Swedish Regulators Say The Word 'bank' Not Allowed In Any Domain Names… Except If You're A Bank | It’s quite common for regulators around the world to insist that no company can call itself a “bank” unless it’s an official, regulated bank. In fact, that’s often why you see companies (including holding companies of real banks) that use t... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Pre-order Your .CM Domain Now, Start Making Money Off Domain Typos Soon! | I distinctly remember reading this Business 2.0 Magazine piece published back in May 2007 about Kevin Ham, ‘the most powerful dotcom mogul you’ve never heard of’. If you’re interested in the domain name business (lovingly called the nasty c... |
| Jun 8, 2009 | Tech Law: DoJ investigates high tech hiring, Apple Sued over E-Commerce, More | A look at highlights of the past week in the high tech legal world: courts, regulation, and lawsuits.
DoJ investigates high tech hiring -- The Department of Justice is investigating whether a number of high tech companies are making anticom... |
| Jun 8, 2009 | Should ICANN Dump The Idea Of Generic Top Level Domains? | For years, we’ve scolded ICANN for its bizarre policies when it came to new top level domains (TLD) (the things like .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info etc.). For the most part, the whole process seemed like a big money grab, where each new TLD ... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | New Phishing Attack Spreading On Facebook. This Time From FBstarter (Updated) | Yesterday a phishing scam spread across Facebook in the form of a message form a friend asking you to click on a link which took you to what appeared to be a Facebook login, but was actually at a different URL, http://fbaction.net. It was q... |
| Mar 14, 2009 | Big Business Fighting Top-Level Domain Change | The next big Internet land-grab is about to begin, and the fight between big business fearing trademark infringement and new companies poised to exploit virgin territory is heating up.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers... |
| Aug 13, 2008 | Russians may not be responsible for cyberattacks on Georgia | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Earlier this week, we covered a report from the Georgian Foreign Ministry, claiming that the Russian Business Network (RBN) was... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Should The Next President Use A Computer? | Much has been made of John McCain’s status as a self-proclaimed “computer illiterate.” Juxtaposed with his rival, the Blackberry-wielding, iPod-listening Barack Obama, McCain’s inexperience with all things digital have raised concerns that ... |
| Jan 10, 2008 | ICANN Finally Realizes Domain Tasting Is A Problem, Might Fix It Sometime This Decade | The practice of “domain tasting” (or “domain kiting” as it used to be called) has been a well-known problem for at least two years now. Since domain name registrars offer a five day grace period whereby you can buy a domain and return it sa... |
| Oct 3, 2005 | ISP Owner Wins Uncollectable $10 Million From Spammer | Perhaps the idea of setting up an ISP just to fight spammers isn’t so crazy. Following a ruling last year awarding a small ISP a billion dollars from spammers, another small ISP owner has been has been awarded $10 million from a spammer. Th... |
| Не Маском единым: китайцы собираются запустить на орбиту тысячи спутников связи | Сейчас на орбите Земли находится около 3000 спутников в рабочем состоянии, которые выполняют различные задачи. Около 400 из них принадлежат китайскому правительству или компаниям из Поднебесной. В ближайшем будущем китайцы планируют усилить... |
