LONDON (Alliance News) – Software firm CentralNic Group PLC on 25th Aug 2017, Friday said it will buy SK-NIC AS, the manager of Slovakia’s top-level internet domain, .sk, for up to EUR26.1 million and added it expects to report a rise in revenue for the first half of the year. The initial cash consideration for …
VeriSign a global leader in domain names and internet security, has today announced that approximately 1.3 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 331.9 million across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2017.1 The increase …
The battle for the control of the .Africa top level domain may yet become more protracted after a recent court decision to have the case proceed to trial. BackGround DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust after winning an IRP and still rejected by ICANN went to court and filed its first Amended Complaint (“FAC”) on 26 February 2016, …
Smartphones with pre-installed advanced tracking software are on sale in Britain to help employers to snoop on their staff. The devices can be bought in bulk and sold on to unwitting customers, who would have no indication that their messages, location, app usage, call histories, photographs and emails were being monitored at all times. UK …
In the devastating wake of Hurricane Irma the Fort Lauderdale, Florida based headquarters of .CLUB Domains, LLC sustained extensive damage. The destructive wrath of Irma tore off a vast portion of the building’s roof, destroying most all of the contents within. “Literally, it looks like a bomb went off. I couldn’t believe the damage. It’s …
Amazon.com was the latest winner in the ICANN Independent Review Process IRP. Amazon was one of the largest applicants for new domain names, but its .brand strategy was slowed down when governments opposed its .amazon application. Amazon’s applications had been rejected three years ago after ICANN accepted Governmental Advisory Committee consensus advice. Amazon beat ICANN …
A recent massive security breach at credit reporting company Equifax, which could impact 143 million consumers in the U.S. The breach which was revealed last week along with the revelation that three Equifax officials, including its chief financial officer, sold nearly $2 million of the company’s shares in the days after the breach was …
A group of four lawmakers has sent a letter to an internet governing body expressing concern about how the proposed .cpa domain extension might be exploited by fraudsters pretending to be CPAs. .CPA is sponsored by the American Institute of CPAs, in partnership with the Australian accounting body CPA Australia, since 2014. The two groups …
The QZ reports that Togo is the latest African nation to shut down access to the internet after protests against president Faure Gnassingbé were scheduled to take place this week. Early this year Cameroon imposed a 93-day internet blackout on the country’s Anglophone regions which spoke out their marginalization by the French-speaking government. The blackout …
Researchers have created a smartphone application to combat “shoulder-surfing”—when someone else looks over your shoulder as you enter your phone’s password or other private digits, potentially even gleaning vital financial or personal information. Every ATM or smartphone user can attest to the discomfort of having a stranger standing close enough to observe a financial transaction—and …