Unsurprisingly, ICANN has approved the plan to introduce support for domain names in non-Latin characters. The move is billed as the biggest change to how the Internet works since its inception forty years ago but it is far from a done deal yet. The support will be rolled out in several stages and if everything goes ... |
31 October 2009
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An ICANN representative has led reporters to believe that, till the end of the week, the committee might approve the usage of non-Latin characters in standard web addresses. The change, if approved, will not only be the biggest face-lift given to the Internet, but will also be the biggest technical modification done ... |
26 October 2009
11:02 GMT |
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The Internet may seem like a pretty wild and open place with no one party having too much control over it. Still, there are many asking for even more freedom especially when it comes to the domain name allocation system currently run by ICANN. Though an independent organization, ICANN still has some ties with the US ... |
25 September 2009
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The US government isn't going to let ICANN go without a fight. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit company set up to handle top-level domain names. Founded in 1998, it's an independent organization but still has strong ties with various US government bodies through a Join... |
6 August 2009
11:22 GMT |
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the private not-for-profit organization governing domain names, has hired former US Cybersecurity Chief Rod Beckstrom as its new CEO. He will be replacing current CEO Paul Twomey, who will remain as president until the end of the year. Beckstorm has ... |
29 June 2009
05:35 GMT |
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has set out to regulate a DNS technique known as fast flux hosting, which is constantly being abused by cyber-criminals to hinder the efforts of security groups and authorities. After releasing its initial report (PDF), ICANN's Generic Names Support... |
28 January 2009
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Following their decision to terminate the registrar accreditation agreement for EstDomains, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was looking for registrars interested in receiving a bulk transfer of all the domains maintained by the Estonian company. It looks like that registrar will be Directi... |
22 November 2008
06:56 GMT |
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It looks like crybecriminal organizations everywhere are receiving blow after blow. After having lost two of their major hosting providers in the U.S., online crooks are about to lose their favorite domain registrar, too. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced that ending the Registrar ... |
13 November 2008
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced having halted the process of de-accrediting Estonian-based domain registrar EstDomains Inc. in light of newly received documents, according to which Vladimir Tsastsin is no longer the president of the company.Two days ago, ICANN took the decisi... |
30 October 2008
07:44 GMT |
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The Estonian-based domain registrar EstDomains was outed a long time ago by numerous security groups for providing domain registration services to cyber-criminals. An official letter sent a few days ago by Stacy K. Burnette, Director of Contractual Compliance at ICANN, informs the President of EstDomains Inc., Vladim... |
29 October 2008
09:10 GMT |
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A white paper written by security researcher Jart Armin, in collaboration with James McQuaid and Matt Jonkman, analyzes the inner-workings of the biggest cyber crime hosting company in US, Atrivo, and its associates. The paper leads to the conclusion that such companies have influence over Internet authorities. At th... |
3 September 2008
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Not too long ago a hacker group from Turkey, calling themselves the NetDEvilz, managed to redirect traffic from the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) web pages to another site where they claimed that they were in control of the net. The corpora... |
9 July 2008
07:55 GMT |
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I think there is not one Internet user out there that enjoys having their email inbox stuffed with spam. And as most of the spam victims know, spam mail generally redirects you to a certain website, which ultimately tries to trick you into giving away your personal information or simply wants to take your money. Appa... |
28 May 2008
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