The Russian government has made indications that it will build an “independent internet” for use by itself, Brazil, India, China, and South Africa — the so-called BRICS nations — “in the event of global internet malfunctions,” the Russian news site RT reported on Tuesday. Moscow precisely intends to create an alternative to the global Domain Name System, or DNS, the directory that helps …
Nominet has today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2017. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is being used for criminal activity. The criminality report shows that the number of .UK domains suspended between 1 November …
The internet appears to be growing every second, with growth to 330.6 million registered domains on the internet. While all of these domains might not have been turned into a website, and some might have been taken down at some point, but even if half of them have made it, they account for a very …
WASHINGTON, DC – Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced in February that the subcommittee will continue its oversight of both the Federal Communications Commission and the administration’s work to transition certain oversight functions of the Internet to multi-stakeholder governance. “The upcoming hearing with the FCC Commissioners will allow the committee to continue …
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 …
12 November 2014 A U.S. federal court has agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are not property subject to attachment. Claimants filed writs of attachment to seize from ICANN, the ccTLDs for Iran (.IR), Syria (.SY) and North Korea (.KP), (as well as …
Three Republican Congressmen have introduced a bill that would prevent the US government giving away from oversight of the DNS root zone. In the press release Rokita and Colleagues Seek Review of Obama Plan to Relinquish U.S. Oversight of the Internet. Read the entire Rep. Todd Rokita Press release below Rokita and Colleagues Seek Review …
“Dotless” TLDs Within the evaluation process there have evidently been a number of proposals that propose relatively novel use of these top level DNS labels, and the one I’d like to look at here is that of the so-called “dotless” domains proposed for the DNS root zone. It’s as if I had decided to revive …
ICANN has announced that Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), has agreed to serve as Senior Security Advisor to the Generic Domains Division and its President, Akram Atallah. “The Domain Name System has met the needs of the Internet for secure and reliable service and growth in size and function,” said …
It’s late in the new gTLD day and the program looks to be inching ever closer to the finish line. Yet last minute hiccups seem to be a recurring theme for this ambitious project to expand the Internet namespace far beyond the 300 odd active TLDs in existence today (counting generics and country codes). A …