IPv6 is 20 years old and the milestone has been celebrated with 10 percent adoption across the world for the first time. The idea that IPv6 remains so far behind its saturated incumbent, IPv4, is horrifying given that three continents ran out of IPv4 addresses in 2015. Unfortunately, because the product isn’t ‘end of life’ …
Dr Paul Vixie, a pioneer of the internet’s domain name system (DNS), has lashed out at the creation of hundreds of new top-level domains, ranging from .dog to .horse, and .cool to .porn, labelling them a money grab and a mistake. Vixie was speaking at the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday about …
The applicant for .Africa new gTLD , DCA Trust, has opposed the latest effort by the ICANN board to revert the .Africa application for a Governmental Committee (GAC) at ICANN to “refining” its last advise GAC gave to the ICANN Board. This comes after the DCA Trust won an Independent Review Panel decision against ICANN …
ICANN has announced that it temporarily took its New gTLD Applicant and GDD portals offline on 27 February 2015 to investigate a reported security issue. This week’s announcement also follows on the heels of a spear-phishing attack in December where a number of ICANN’s systems were compromised including the Centralized Zone Data System (CZDS) – …
Johannesburg – Data loss costs South African businesses over R3bn according to technology storage and hardware solutions firm EMC. Data loss involves computer information being destroyed by the likes of human error, file corruption or theft. And EMC this month has revealed its Data Protection Index which ranks 24 countries on the maturity of their …
Owners of new .capetown top-level domains may have some trouble using e-mail addresses from their new space on the Internet. This is because a number of online services still check to see that the top-level domain (TLD) portion of an e-mail address (such as .com, .net, or .za) is only a certain number of characters …
The .Green registry released its launch time table for the new gTLD. The Founders Program is now open but only to December 1, 2014 “The Founders Program is Limited to Friends & Supporters of DotGreen, and attendees of San Francisco Green Festival If your interested in acquiring a .Green Founders name you need to submit …
There are a number of ways China cuts off access to websites it deems inappropriate for its populace. It can co-opt telecoms companies as part of its Great Firewall to simply blacklist sites one by one. But it can also shut off reams of websites in one fell swoop by blocking companies that run content …
The .Africa story is still generating lots of reactions even when it is undergoing an Independent Review Process pitting DCA Vs. ICANN. As a follow up to a recent report on an interview by Gareth van Zyl with Sophia Bekele at Fin24Tech, we found out that the article “Internet domain name ‘dotAfrica’ faces hurdles” was not …
DotAfrica TV Features CentralNic CEO Ben Crawford, as he talks on history of CentralNic, Domain Name, New gTLDs and changes to the Internet Domain Name and his Company’s Strategy for Emerging Markets which includes Africa. CentralNIC is the Registry Partner for DotConnectAfrica’s .Africa registry. DotAfrica TV brings Views, Opinions of Business, Internet & Technology to …