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| .ru approaches 1 million registrations |
The .ru ccTLD has passed 950,000 registrations and should reach one million registrations in September according to a recent article from CNews. By passing one million registrations, the .ru ccTLD will be the eighth largest, behind .de, .uk, .cn, .eu, .nl, .it and .us with .ca and .dk close behind.Share ... more..
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| 2,500,000 .nl domains registered! |
Yesterday the 2.500.000th .nl domain has been registered. Since 2003 there is a fast growth in the number of .nl domains. December 2003 SIDN registered the 1.000.000th domain and in August 2006 the 2.000.000th. Now, a year later, we already count 2.500.000 .nl domains. This means that, despite the introduction ... more..
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| Afilias to secure and stabilitize the .us Top Level Domain |
The Domain Name System (DNS) has come under progressively sophisticated and frequent attacks in the past few years. Increasingly, capable criminals are constantly developing advanced cyber-attacks that both harm users and allow attackers to profit from such activity.
As the Internet continues to scale, more users rely on DNS for the ... more..
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| CNNIC Exposes Illegal Domain Name Registrars |
CNNIC published the names of two domain name registrars - Shanghai Jinyue Network Technology Company and Suzhou Huayan Network Technology Company - who have been accused of sending intimidating emails to terrify Internet users to try to have them change their domain registrars. CNNIC says it will verify the complaint ... more..
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| Domain RoundTable Conference around the Corner |
Don't forget, the 2007 Domain Roundtable Conference will open at the Sheraton Hotel on August 12-15 in Seattle, Washington.
More than 400 attendees are expected, including domain investors, industry experts and corporate executives from Fortune 1000 companies eager to learn more about domain investment, development and monetization. The conference is also holding silent ... more..
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| Enhancing Quality and Value for the .us Top Level Domain |
With the .us top level domain bids being reviewed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the public needs a clear and accurate description of what "quality" registry stewardship really means for a top-level domain like the .us Top Level Domain (TLD).
Listen in on what Alliance Registry had to say at the ... more..
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| ICANN - Easier Public Input with One-Stop Comment Page |
MARINA DEL REY, California - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is making it easier for the community to review all of the issues in the consultation phase and to provide their comments with a new public comment page on the ICANN website.
“This new webpage aims to provide ... more..
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| ICANN spreads Love, opens Bosom to all - True or False? |
We all know that ICANN has been criticized for a lack of transparency. And of course the fact that ICANN is a US based entity, which supposedly serves the interests of the internet community at large, is not helping its image. In an effort to alleviate their critics, ICANN has created several ... more..
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| IamDomainNames.com offers I AM and WE ARE .com Domain Names |
CHARLESTON, SC - Since January 2006 an enlightened Stephen Webb has been acquiring Domain Names, all starting with I AM or WE ARE. Cutting edge ad firms have been using generic domain names for corporations such as American Express (MyLifeMyCard.com), MasterCard (Priceless.com), A&E (SuitcaseOfCash.com), Johnson & Johnson (Baby.com) and Taco ... more..
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| New South African Body for Domain Name Disputes |
BusinessOwner.co.za reports that a new South African body for domain name disputes has been created to significantly spped up and reduce the cost normally associated with domain name dispute cases presented to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The new Domain Name Authority goes by two names - the Arbitration Foundation ... more..
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| New York Web Address Bill by Senator Little will become Law |
In a bout 4 months from now, a new bill will be signed into law which will prevent any person in New York state to register a domain name that is similar to or the same as another living person or business.
Republican Senator Betty Little, who sponsored this law is aimed at Internet users who turn ... more..
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| Protecting Browsers from DNS Rebinding Attacks |
This research article is by Collin Jackson, Adam Barth, Andrew Bortz, Weidong Shao & Dan Boneh from Stanford University. Below is the article abstract.
ABSTRACT: DNS rebinding attacks subvert the same-origin policy of browsers and convert them into open network proxies. We survey new DNS rebinding attacks that exploit the interaction ... more..
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| The Global Web Top Level Domain .gw has a new Registrar |
IT & MEDIA, Corp. a US Company with headquarter in Lisbon, Portugal has acquired the rights of Guinea-Bissau´s ccTLD .gw, after negotiations with their Government. IT & MEDIA is the sole agent to market and sell .gw domain names worldwide. IT & MEDIA wants to turn the country code Top ... more..
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| The Return of the IPv4 Shortage |
Are we running out of IPv4 addresses? Larry Seltzer wonders if we are, or if it’s an urban legend (I’d call it an ‘urban myth’!) Larry notes there are many who predict IPv4 addresses will run out around 2009/2010 – not very far away when one has to start planning ... more..
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| nz: Third consultation on RMC Policy Review |
InternetNZ, through the Domain Name Commission (DNC), is currently reviewing the Registering, Managing and Cancelling Domain Names policy.Share This by email or social web
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