Internet Society
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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
China cracks down on spam
News The Chinese government is taking an iron-clad stance on spam, giving senders of unsolicited mail an ultimatum to clean up their act or face digital exile.
China steps up antispam efforts
News Chinese authorities intensify efforts to unclog user mailboxes from the deluge of junk e-mails.
Tags: Spam and phishing
Tech giants back ID interoperability project
News Kantara Initiative, which aims to harmonize ID management technologies and standards, gets backing of companies such as BT, CA, Intel, Novell, Oracle, PayPal and Sun.
Tags: Privacy, Security, Computer Associates International Inc., PayPal, Intel Corp., British Telecommunications, Identity, Privacy, Interoperability, Identity Theft
Indigenous New Zealanders call for new Net neighborhood
News The New Zealand Maori Internet Society has applied to the Internet Society of New Zealand (ISOCNZ) to consider a new Net name domain--.maori.nz--within the .nz domain name space.
China fines its first spammer US$625
News It is the first time the Chinese government has penalized a company for sending junk e-mail since an anti-spam regulation came into force in March.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Legal, Regulations
VeriSign transfers control of .org
News VeriSign on Thursday relinquished its authority over the .org top-level domain to the Public Interest Registry, a group set up by the nonprofit Internet Society to administer .org.
Another U.N. Internet rift develops
News A power struggle arises between the U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union and the Virginia-based Internet Society.
Tags: Standards, Domain names, International governments
Asian countries join hands against spam
News Regulators and computer associations across the region have signed an pact to step up the war against spam.
Tags: Spam and phishing
Domain prices should go down, not up
Blogs The decision last April by Verisign -- due to become effective this October -- to raise the fee for both .com and .net d...
International domains to debut next year?
News Policies are currently being worked out to address issues such as language, says an expert familiar with internationalized domain name development.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names
China's e-tail awakening
News New online-payment systems are drawing wary consumers into the world of Web commerce.
Tags: E-commerce, Internet, B2B
NSI rivals protest Net name agreement
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China's spam fight takes flight
News Anti-spam lobbyist Spamhaus takes its fight to China--the top spamming nation in Asia--but faces some resistance from telecom administrators unwilling to give up lucrative contracts.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Spam
Save Internet freedom from regulation
Insight Stanford Law School's Larry Downes warns that the information superhighway to hell is surely paved with good intentions.
Tags: Regulations
