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US government finally lets ICANN go
News update In surprising move, U.S. government says it is ready to relinquish power of organization that oversees global Web traffic to "Internet users everywhere".
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Politics, International governments, Domain Name, ICANN, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, accountability, U.S. Department of Commerce
Politicians should stay out of Net policing
Insight perspective The law cannot hope to keep up with the Internet, and just hampers innovation, says industry expert.
Tags: Web sites, Legal, Government, Domain Name, OSI, monitoring, network, Internet Service Provider, Internet, ISO
Helping firms occupy more 'Yellow Pages'
Insight newsmaker Gone are the days of matching one domain name to one corporate Web site, says CEO of DotAsia, the keeper of the region's top-level domain.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Google Inc., Asia, Domain, Japan, Internationalized Domain Name, search bar, China, Internet
Chinese domain names coming soon to S'pore
News Registration for .sg domain names based on Chinese characters to be accepted from Nov. 23, according to Singapore's national registrar.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Regulations, domain name registration, SGNIC, Domain Name, Web sites, Singapore, Japan, intellectual property
Verizon awarded 'largest-ever' cybersquatting judgment
News A federal court awarded Verizon US$33 million in a case against an Internet domain registrar the company claims chose names to be easily confused with legitimate Verizon sites.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Verizon Communications Inc., ICANN, Cybersquatting, Northern California, Oakland, San Francisco, News.com, Internet
Use RFC 2606 example domains for example e-mail
Techguide Example e-mail domains were created specifically for use in examples, so that people with real e-mail accounts that happen to coincide with your examples don't suffer the fallout of an unfortunate choice of example.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Security Management, E-mail Address, Security, Domain Name, Domain, CompTIA, Chad Perrin, RFC, e-mail
Set up split-brain DNS with Active Directory integrated zones
Techguide Learn how to configure conditional forwarding in Windows Server 2003 when a split-brain DNS setup is called for.
Tags: Domain names, Web servers, Domain Name, DNS Server, Domain, Environment, Server, DNS, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows
Time for U.S. to stop saying ICANN
Blogs This week marks the first time Barack Obama stood in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In his in...
How botnets use 'bullet-proof' domains
News Researchers find clues as to how switching servers behind hard-coded domain names keeps criminals in business.
Tags: Security, Domain names, Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Malware, Domain Name, Domain, ICANN, Bot, Server
Dot Go could be 'the Internet for text messaging'
News New service from Scientific Media aims to make it very easy for companies to run text message marketing campaigns.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Starbucks Corp., Text Messaging, dot-com, marketing, Earth, Internet, Mobile platforms/communications, Internet domain
ICANN adopts new Web site naming rules
News The Internet organization loosens its rules to allow companies, cities, and others to use just about any suffix they want for a Web address.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Security, Domain Name, Suffix, ICANN, London, British Broadcasting Corp., Paris, New York City
Three ways to prevent typo-squatting data leakage
Techguide Typo-squatting is more than a way for squatters to make a buck--it also could lead to data leakage. Find out what defense you can take.
Tags: Risk Management, Domain names, Web sites, Security Management, Microsoft Corp., Domain Name, Domain, Tool, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, e-Mail Message
McAfee: Beware the .hk domain, among others
News Security company's new report ranks riskiest and safest domains on the Internet. Damage from risky sites runs from the "apocalyptic to the annoying".
Tags: Spam and phishing, Domain names, Security, Site, Adware, Domain, software, McAfee Inc., researcher, China
Asian TLDs bide their time on DNSSEC
News update Thailand goes ahead to adopt security protocol for country-code top-level domain, but other countries in region continue testing and may not follow suit yet.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Network security, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, DNS, Registry, Thailand, Web Browser, browser company
DNS resource records still open to malicious redirection
Techguide Attacks against DNS cache integrity are an easy way for criminals to redirect your unsuspecting users to malicious sites. Learn more about how DNS works and what exactly DNS cache poisoning is.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Domain names, NIST, Security, Domain Name, DNS Server, Entry, IP, IP Address
