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Archive for the ‘World Events’ CategoryBill to Restrict Online Tracking Introduced in CongressPosted February 12th, 2011According to Wired.com “ Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) introduced a bill Friday that would require online-tracking firms to allow citizens to opt out of tracking, or else face stiff fines.” Click HERE to read the full article. Tags: Online Tracking, Rep. Jackie Speier, Wired ICANN’s Status Report On The DNS In EgyptPosted February 1st, 2011“Along with the entire global Internet community, ICANN is watching the events unfolding in Egypt with great concern for the safety of the people of Egypt and for their ability to use the Internet. On January 27, most Internet connectivity to Egypt was shut down, apparently on the instruction of the national government. This has led to the inaccessibility of the main domain name system (DNS) server of the Egyptian ccTLD (.eg).” Click HERE for the full article. Tags: .eg, DNS, Egypt A Secession By South Sudan Could Lead To Domain Profit For New CountryPosted January 19th, 2011The average person has little idea how much money there is to be made in Internet real estate. While some were lucky enough to have the foresight 15 years ago to participate in the invisible land grab, it took years for the rest of us to catch on. While most of the “good” (i.e. profitable) domains have been long ago accounted for, there are occasional wells to be tapped in the form of ccTLDs re-appropriated for vanity use. While the world watches South Sudan inch closer to secession, Domain Name Wire points out that this could be a golden opportunity for the emerging country to make a killing on the ccTLD they may choose. Montenegro experienced wild success upon the release of their ccTLD, .ME when they encouraged it’s use as a vanity extension and there is nothing, but imagination stopping another entity from having the same. If South Sudan were to make strategic choices in their Internet identity, it could lead to a huge gain for the new nation continuing the interesting precedent for possibilities of financial stability in emerging countries. Click HERE to read more. Tags: .ME, CCTLD's, Montenegro, South Sudan ICANN Key Note Speaker Confirmed! But Not FormalizedPosted January 17th, 2011The rumors are true, former United States President Bill Clinton has accepted ICANN’s offer to deliver the key note speech at the 40th ICANN meeting in San Francisco. Click HERE for more information. Tags: Bill Clinton, ICANN 40 Venezuela Passes Law That Limits Internet FreedomsPosted December 21st, 2010“The Venezuelan parliament has passed a law that bans any Internet content that “promotes social unrest, challenges authority or condones crime.” President Hugo Chavez’s ruling party pushed the law through in less than a week.” Click HERE to read the full article. Tags: Venezeula Net Neutrality FCC StylePosted December 21st, 2010As a community, we joke that the Internet business is a bit like the Wild West. Okay, it’s not really a joke and the Internet has been the modern equivalent of the Wild West for at least the last 15 years. Today’s FCC ruling on Net Neutrality is an interesting simultaneous nod and challenge to a proud tradition of the ways we have been settling the Internet frontier. Regardless of what side of the Net Neutrality issue you are on, we are all effected when the winds of change begin to blow. From this ruling to IDNs to Rod Beckstrom’s call for a multi-stakeholder “Internet Nation State” to the introduction of New gTLDs change is happening fast and as a community we must be malleable to and prepared for it. Reports on the FCC ruling vary and can make for quite a vague read. When Fox News blog and the Huffington Post agree with each other, it’s a tough news day. Below is a compilation of links to reports on the FCC ruling that capture the political spread of the situation. Wired - http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/fcc-order/ New York Times - http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/f-c-c-approves-net-rules-and-braces-for-fight/?hp CNET - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20026326-94.html#ixzz18mYMd9oR BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8608662.stm FoxNews - http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/12/21/coup-fcc/ Tags: FCC ruling, Net Neutrality Facebook CEO Named Time’s Person of 2010Posted December 15th, 2010Mark Zuckerberg is an interesting and controversial choice to wear the crown of Time Magazine’s annual Person of the Year. Read the full story of Time’s choice HERE. Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Person of the Year 2010, Time Magazine EasyDns.net Gets Caught In WikiLeaks FrayPosted December 13th, 2010In what could easily be classified as the worst day of work ever for Mark Jeftovic and his Ottowa, Canada based company EasyDNS.net the news that he had become involved in the unfolding Wikileaks drama came in an e-mail on December 3. According to the New York Times, “Several blogs and Web sites had posted variations of this sentence: “EasyDNS.net has cut off DNS service to WikiLeaks.”
EasyDNS.net denied cutting off service to Wikileaks because EasyDNS.net had never provided them in the first place. It was instead the company EveryDNS.
Luckily EasyDNS.net did not become a target of Wikileaks supporters who swarmed other sites who dropped affiliations with the group following the International condemnation of the release of previously classified information by it’s founder Julian Assange. However, EasyDNS.net did have several PR fires to put out as the New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Guardian all printed the name of his company as the next target for Wikileaks sympathizers.
And then, things got weirder when Wikileaks themselves came knocking… To read the full article, click HERE Tags: EasyDns.net, EveryDns, Julian Assange, Wikileaks Countdown to a Falling SkyPosted July 26th, 2010from the New York Times Less Than 1 Year Until The Internet Runs Out of Addresses The Internet will run out of Internet addresses in about 1 year’s time, we were told today by John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). The same thing was also stated recently by Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist. See the full story HERE. Tags: Internet addresses, IPV4, IPv6, New York Times Battling the Conficker Internet WormPosted May 11th, 2010From ICANN News Alert A very interesting report on the origination of the Internet virus in October 2008, the efforts of the worldwide DNS community to fend it off for almost a year and an analysis of lessons learned to be better prepared for future attacks. See the full story HERE. Tags: Conficker Worm, ICANN
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