The risk of someone trespassing on your company’s trademarks in cyberspace is about to get worse, with the pending introduction of more than 1,000 new addresses for registration of domain names. Read More
Earlier today, the RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) announced it is down to its last “/8” worth of IPv4 addresses. Read More
China’s internet regulatory authority has vowed to strengthen management of the web, as the number of internet users in the country climbed to around 540 million, China Daily reported. Read More
Advocates around the world are organizing to work against potential threats that such a change could bring to Internet openness. Advocates and experts believe that citizens can have an impact by urging their national governments to support proposals that will protect the open Internet. Read More
ICANN’s new CEO Fadi Chehade has embarked on a bold restructure of the organization’s management on his first day in the job. Announcing two new senior management members – Sally Costerton as head of stakeholder relations and communications and Tarek Kamel as head of governmental affairs Read More
The Durban Internet Exchange (Dinx), located at data centre operator Teraco’s Riverhorse Valley facility, joins the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (Jinx) and the Cape Town Internet Exchange (Cinx) as the third dedicated exchange in SA to go live. Read More
A recent analysis by Kaspersky Lab found that the computers of 33.4% of Internet users in Western Europe and North America were attacked at least once during the first six months of 2012 while users were browsing the Web. Read More
Simple and great names will rule the world. Complicated, hard to spell or multiple part names will impose difficulties. Examples like, dot Saskatchewan, dot Albuquerque, dot Sault Ste Marie, dot Ypsilanti or dot Lake Winnibigoshish type names will have far less appeal. Read More
Rwanda Information Communication Technology Association (RICTA) has gained all the rights Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to manage the government’s web domain after using formal procedures to apply for its repatriation. Read More
Proposals on a multi-tier Internet have been at the heart of discussions on net neutrality for years. ETNO has been pushing this idea together with other major operators around the world. Read More