Credit Unions can now have .CREDITUNION, to compete .BANK gTLD

BOSTON, May 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Starting today, Credit Unions can now have their own Internet brand: .CREDITUNION, to compete with the highly successful .BANK extension.  As the leading .BANK Registrar, EnCirca is pleased to announce pre-screening services for all U.S.-based Credit Unions.  Credit unions are invited to apply today for a pre-verification and to see …

Net Neutrality fight turning nasty

Although net neutrality it’s a topic that doesn’t stir much interest in your average consumer, those who have opinions hold them very strongly and is it turning nasty? Verizon vice president in charge of what is called “public policy” (i.e., lobbying), Craig Sillman says a lot of these public policy” advocates, like Free Press and Fight for …

XYZ acquires .Storage top level domain name

The company that runs the .xyz domain name, has added the 10th domain in its portfolio. XYZ has announced that it has acquired the .storage top level domain name. Self Storage Co., a subsidiary of self-storage giant Extra Space Storage, Inc., assigned rights to the TLD effective April 18. Self Storage Co. owns the domain …

NIRA laments the poor adoption of the Nigerian ccTLD .Ng

Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa with a population of over 180 million. One would expect that the netizens of nigeria would prefer .ng over .com. However, only 80,000 internet users adopted Nigeria’s top level domain, NIRA official laments. According to premiumtimesng.com, Sunday Folayan, President of the association, noted that only 80,000 dotng …

Record labels win against ISPs to block piracy website KickassTorrent

Record labels have won against internet service providers to have piracy website KickassTorrent blocked. In Friday’s ruling, Justice Stephen Burley ordered ISPs including TPG, iiNet, Optus and Telstra to block KickassTorrent by blocking seven domain names including kat.al, kickass.cd and kickass.ukbypss.download. However, the record labels will have to pay $50 per domain name to have the piracy websites blocked. The ISPs have …

Cyber Breaches on the Financial sector skyrocketed in 2016

More than 200 million financial services records were breached in 2016, representing a 937% percent increase over the previous year, according to data from IBM. The monetary gains associated with corporate and customer data available throughout the financial sector proved appetising to cybercriminals in a year which saw hackers switch their focus away from the …

Uber used Greyball App to evade Authorities, and ‘Hell Program’ to spy on Lyft

The NewYork Times has reported that Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive the authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was resisted by law enforcement or, in some instances, had been banned. The program, involving a tool called Greyball, uses data collected from the Uber app and other techniques …