.Doha is the first gTLD to ask for a termination notice along side two dot-brand domains .active and .Zippo. They join a growing list of new gTLDS that didn’t make it to be profitable. .Doha is the geographic TLD for Doha, the Qatar capital and would be used as a domain name for government entities …
KrebsOnSecurity is reporting on a new scam that used unrenewed domains to scam credit cards. If you own a domain name that gets decent traffic and you fail to pay its annual renewal fee, chances are this mistake will be costly for you and for others. Lately, neglected domains have been getting scooped up by …
QUIC stands for “Quick UDP Internet Connections” and is, itself, Google’s attempt at rewriting the TCP protocol as an improved technology that combines HTTP/2, TCP, UDP, and TLS (for encryption), among many other things. The HTTP-over-QUIC experimental protocol will be renamed to HTTP/3 and is expected to become the third official version of the HTTP …
Nigeria’s Main One Cable Co has taken responsibility on Tuesday for a glitch that temporarily caused some Google global traffic to be misrouted through China, saying it accidentally caused the problem during a network upgrade. The issue surfaced on Monday afternoon as internet monitoring firms ThousandEyes and BGPmon said some traffic to Alphabet Inc’s Google …
Cloudflare launched today official mobile apps for its 1.1.1.1 privacy-first DNS resolver service. Mobile apps for Android and iOS are now available on their respective app stores. The company first launched the 1.1.1.1 service to great fanfare on April 1, earlier this year. The service is a basic DNS server, but one for which Cloudflare …
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has finally given some insight on the company’s thoughts about building an edit button for tweets. Speaking at an event in New Delhi, he said that the company has to carefully consider use cases for the edit button before making it a reality – and it could potentially be tooled to …
The organizational growth at ICANN and the IANA transition has dug up a huge hole in ICANN’s pockets causing a budget shortfall, and ICANN has made approvals to make it up by cutting costs and raiding the new TLD auction piggy bank. ICANN is planning to make up this deficit over eight years by running …
A Chinese state-owned telecommunications company has been “hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries,” according to an academic paper published this week by researchers from the US Naval War College and Tel Aviv University. The culprit is China Telecom, the country’s third-largest telco and internet service provider (ISP), which has had a presence inside …
The internet today isn’t what Tim Berners-Lee pictured when he invented the World Wide Web nearly three decades ago. In a talk at the opening of the Web Summit in Lisbon on Monday, the inventor of the web called on governments, companies and individuals to back a new “Contract for the Web” that aims to …
The 2018 CIGI-Ipsos Global Survey on Internet Security and Trust findings show that over half of internet users surveyed around the world are more concerned about their online privacy than they were a year ago, reflecting growing concern around the world about online privacy and the power of social media platforms. Conducted by Ipsos on behalf …