2016 was quite a wild ride for pop culture, the internet, and the world alike, and many of us are very much looking forward to seeing what 2017 will bring. For our fourth year running, we asked a handful of Dyn’s tech gurus to try their hand at the question of what’s ahead. Enjoy! The Year …
The movement toward Certificate Transparency (CT) has brought about a healthy improvement, not only in the way organizations monitor and audit TLS certs, but also in cutting down the number of malicious or mistakenly issued certificates. CT, a framework developed by Google, works because Certificate Authorities are required to submit certificates to publicly accessible logs; …
A U.S. safety agency is investigating an accident involving a massive experimental drone Facebook Inc. is developing to bring the internet to remote areas of the world. No one was hurt in the incident, which came during the unmanned aircraft’s first test flight on June 28. It marks the latest hiccup in Facebook’s plans to wirelessly …
A sweeping new surveillance regime is to be enshrined in UK law in the coming weeks, after the Investigatory Powers Bill passed through the House of Lords yesterday. All that’s now required for the bill to become the Investigatory Powers Act is the Queen’s approval, a formality known as royal assent. The new law, dubbed …
A new submarine fiber optic broadband cable project, led by Angola, is set to provide a flood of international Internet bandwidth to countries on the west coast of Africa, including South Africa, when it goes live in mid-2018. The South Atlantic Cable System (Sacs), coupled with the already-under-construction Monet cable – which will link São …
British withdrawal from the European Union, also shortened to Brexit (a portmanteau of “British” or “Britain” and “exit”), happened last week. The result of this referendum was 51.9% in support of an exit (17,410,742 votes) and 48.1% (16,141,241 votes) to remain with a turnout of 72.2% and 26,033 rejected ballots. The European Union – often …
Last week the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that the proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder community meets the criteria NTIA outlined in March 2014 when it stated its intent to transition the U.S. Government’s stewardship role for the Internet domain name system (DNS) technical functions, known as the …
The mobile web is arguably in decline: users are spending more time on mobile devices, and more time in apps instead of web browsers. Apple has joined the app side of this battle (e.g. allowing ad blockers in Safari, encouraging app install smart banners above websites). Facebook has also taken the app side (e.g. encouraging …
In the first round of testing on new gTLDs and SEO rankings back in 2014, Globe Runner, ran Google AdWords campaigns and sent traffic to a keyword rich domain .com domain name and, at the same time, sent clicks to a keyword rich .DIAMONDS domain name. They used 3caratDiamonds.com and 3Carat.Diamonds, and used the exact …
A Huge Win for Legal Front-Runner DotConnectAfrica Trust! . April 20, 2016, ICANN has withdrawn its Motion to Dismiss [PDF] against DCA Trust’s First Amended Complaint of 26 February 2016. . In its stipulation to the Court, ICANN moved to withdraw its dismissal citing the following reason: . “in view of the Court’s order on …