Zimbabwe’s government has enacted a controversial law that could enable it to spy on any citizen’s cellphone call records as well as text messages. The government gazetted ‘Statutory Instrument 142 of 2013 on Postal and Telecommunications (Subscriber Registration) Regulations, 2013’ on Friday as the country’s new communications minister Webster Shamu – a loyalist of President …
This is a guest post by Sean Sullivan who is responsible for the content. Sean Sullivan is Founder & CEO of BankAds a monetization solutions provider for financial related domains. Sean is also the owner of several other companies within digital advertising in a number of verticals, including Coups.com, a digital coupon services company. Sean …
We were delighted to learn from Garth Miller, the administrative contact for the .CX top-level domain (TLD), that 6 more TLDs have been signed with DNSSECand now have DS records in the root zone. This means that people and businesses with domains registered in these TLDs can now receive the higher level of security possible …
The big story for the 2012 Internet Governance Forum in Baku was the almost overwhelming (and overpowering) emphasis placed by the US government delegation and its corporate allies (primarily Google) and its associates in (primarily US based) Civil Society on what was termed “Internet Freedom” and Multistakeholderism as its primary governance modality. The campaign was …
“African government delegates were finally complaining they were coerced into ‘AU position’ and stating that they have no reason to object to DCA or a competitive bid for Africa”. DotConnectAfrica has emerged as the first firm to show interest of the project dotAfrica (.africa). . This was explicitly reported to the delegates attending the AfriSIG …
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the “US-centric internet”). Not many understand that, while the immediate trigger for the decision (coupled with the cancellation of a summit with the US president) was the revelations on NSA spying, the reason why …
During ICANN Durban, I attended the Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) 10 year anniversary celebrations. ICANN Chairman, Dr Steve Crocker, was on hand to congratulate the ccNSO on their 10 years and revered them as the “true multi-stakeholders in ICANN”. Post Durban, I was reviewing notes and I came across a similar statement made …
DotConnectAfrica the embattled applicant of .africa gTLD string has gone full circle with the treatment of its application by the institution that is in custody of the global naming system and the internet. ICANN opened up the application round for the new gTLDs early January 2012 in a process that is currently through with the …
Verisign is just not going to let the issue of the risks to the Domain Name System caused by the new gTLD program go. The company that operates .COM has already raised numerous concerns on technical issues such as name collisions. Recently, it has also stepped up its “new gTLD warning campaign” with claims …
With 2,511 votes cast 25% of all voters said they planned to buy a new gTLD domain name although only 3% said they were on any sort of pre-registration list. 25% Planning to buy one 3% Already on the pre-registration list 29% Never heard of them 42% Not interested Considering the fact that there are …