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- Should the United States control the Internet?
- Next week in Brazil, a group of 2,000 businessmen, government workers, and concerned citizens will meet to talk about the future of the Internet. Though the forum was supposed to focus on spam, free speech, and cheaper Net access, it appears that there will be a lot of talk...
- Tags: u.s., icann, u.s. congress, internet, andy moon
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Should the US control the Internet?
- Should the US, through ICANN, continue to have control of the Internet?Personally, I believe so. There are a lot of countries, China being the best example, that do not value the free flow of ideas that has been an American ideal since its inception. UN control of the...
- Tags: andy moon, internet, icann, responsability, network
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- ICANN decides that 'whois' remains as it is
- Who are these "Privacy Advocates"??This is just like that other article about "Online Do Not Contact Me" lists or whatever. In this instance this is where privacy must NOT take place. Here's an excerpt from the article.:"Privacy advocates have argued that the information contained in the WHOIS database should be...
- Tags: icann, adambrown29@..., whois, privacy
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- ICANN decides that WHOIS remains as is
- The ICANN Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers committee has decided to leave the WHOIS database as it is. An excerpt from PC World: The committee, called the Generic Names Supporting Organization, also voted 17-7 against a proposal that would have allowed "natural persons," people...
- Tags: database, icann, whois, domain name, domain names, internet, arun radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- ICANN elects new Chairman as Vint Cerf steps down
- ICANN has elected Peter Dengate Thrush as its new Chairman. He will be replacing Vint Cerf, the man who is often referred to as the father of the Internet. An excerpt from AFP: Peter Dengate Thrush "has been elected unanimously as the new Chairman of...
- Tags: vint cerf, icann, chairman, internet, intellectual property, corporate governance, tcp/ip, research & development, business operations, corporate law, networking, arun radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- ICANN preparing to test internationalized domain names
- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN plans to test the registration of domain names in non-Roman characters. An excerpt from tech.co.uk: Prior to this announcement, the use of non-Roman characters otherwise known as internationalisation was allowed in any section of a domain name...
- Tags: alphabet, icann, domain name, domain names, internet, arun radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-14
- ICANN Nixes .XXX's
- According to a report in Australian IT ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers , the governing body which sanctions Internet addresses has rejected the suggestion that they permit the creation of .XXX URLs for adult content Web sites.See http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21488365%5E16123%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html for details. This, in my opinion, is a mistake.Having...
- Tags: security
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- ICANN Nixes .XXX's
- ICANN IS NOT GOVERNMENT IT"S A CORPORATION THAT REGULATESThe Internet is a telephone call.This is a private corporation that wants to control the libido of the Earth.???????????I'm sorry, that doesn't seem to make any sense to me, can you explain what you mean?Yes, ICANN is not the government, the U.S....
- Tags: balthor, icann
- Discussion threads 2007-04-02
- Control of the Internet
- In an on line article dated November/December 2005 in Foreign Affairs (www.foreignaffairs.org) published online by the Council on Foreign Relations, author Neil Cukier asks "What would prevent Washington, ...from one day choosing, say, to knock Iran off the Internet by simply deleting its two-letter moniker, ".ir," from the domain name...
- Tags: thomas.schrader@..., control of the internet, net regulation, security, networking, internet access, icann, off-topic, internet
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- UN's new ITU boss says Internet should still be run by key players
- goodGood. About the last thing we need is the UN running the Internet.
- Tags: apotheon, icann, international government, international telecommunications union, internet, networking, politics, un
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- U.N. debate swirls around domain name power
- Internet 2 & IPV6Time to change then I think....I think notThis whole debate is based on what some people think the US might or could do, but the US has never done or would do. The UN just wants more authority, but this is the same UN that pu
- Tags: dns, domain, domain name, icann, security, thetechmail, un do, us
- Discussion threads 2006-11-03
- ICANN told to clamp down on dodgy domain names
- Valid Security Reason for Obscure DomainLet's be a little more objective about this. While the practice of not including valid information with ICANN can obscure bad guys, it can also protect good guys. Including valid contact information when a domain is registered can lead to social engineering attempts....
- Tags: black-eyed pea, domain, domain name, icann, information, networking, registrar, security, valid
- Discussion threads 2005-12-08
- Dutch tech firm wants to rid the Web of the .com
- A Dutch technology company has breathed life into a project to rid the Internet of suffixes such as .com, and instead offer single names which can be countries, company names, or fantasy words. Critics argue alternative root companies introduce ambiguity because they bring a new set of traffic rules to...
- Tags: .com, icann, security, sonja thompson, tech company, web
- Discussion threads 2005-11-28
- ICANN remains master of Internet domains—for now
- Stolen DRM Code?In the latest blow to DRM, it turns out that when you reverse engineer the DRM software from that U.K. based firm which supplied Sony with the wonderful security software, it appears that a lot of it was open source - with no acknowledgement.As I seem to recall,...
- Tags: audio cd, cd, digital-rights management, drm, icann, internet, open source, security, sony, tech locksmith
- Discussion threads 2005-11-21
- ICANN remains master of Internet domains—for now
- ICANN received a last-minute reprieve at the World Summit on the Information Society last week and will keep its control over Internet domains. Meanwhile, SonyBMG didn't fare as well as a recent Trojan kept its surreptitious rootkit in the spotlight. Get the details about both stories in this edition of...
- Tags: icann, john mccormick, rootkits, internet, spyware, adware & malware, viruses and worms, security, it locksmith newsletter, software, sony corp., domain, sony bmg music entertainment, rootkit
- Technical articles 2005-11-21
- Microsoft releases one security bulletin for November
- The Battle for ICANN but you CAN'TThe World Summit on the Information Society is meeting in Tunis, Tunisia with the aim of taking control of the Internet away from the users/network owners, and putting it in the hands of big government.For once this isn't the aim of the United States...
- Tags: big government, google inc., government, icann, internet, malware site, microsoft corp., security, tech locksmith
- Discussion threads 2005-11-14
- ICANN partying like it's 1999
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- Tags: domain names, taxes, free trade, bliley, icann, domain name
- Technical articles 2004-12-21
- ICANN partying like it's 1999
- Only a matter of time.It was only a matter of time until the subject was revisited. The thought of how much revenue could be generated with even such a modest fee of 75 cents probably has their salivary glands working overtime.The real concern to me is not how much...
- Tags: icann, internet
- Discussion threads 2004-12-21
- Net domain costs on the rise?
- Domain fee: Surreptitious tax or cost of doing businessThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN plans a new increase in fees for use of .net domains. ICANN recently imposed a similar fee on .com and other domains. When the fee takes effect with .net, domain name owners will...
- Tags: cyberthreats, icann
- Discussion threads 2004-12-16
- Net domain costs on the rise?
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- Tags: domain names, icann, domain name
- Technical articles 2004-12-16
