Early August 2016 U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued its decision in Weinstein vs. Iran, a case in which families of terror victims sought to have ICANN turn over control of Iran’s .IR ccTLD to plaintiffs. The unanimous decision of the three judge panel stated, “On ICANN’s motion, the district court quashed …
ICANN has been caught with the hand in the new gTLDs cookie jar again. The domains overseer faces a second loss after a panel in July 2015 ruled that the applicant for .Africa, DotConnectAfrica was the prevailing party. A Kansas company Dot Registry LLC, applied for the gTLDs .llc, .llp, and .inc as a “Community” …
ICANN now has over $230 million in its coffers, the proceeds from New gTLD program auctions. The latest record breaking price is of $135 million to operate the .WEB gTLD. On 27 July 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN’s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program auction to resolve contention for …
Facebook has announced the first successful test flight of a high-altitude solar plane to bring internet access to remote parts of the world. The Aquila drone has the wingspan of an airliner but weighs less than a car. When cruising it consumes just 5,000 watts – the same as three hairdryers or a powerful microwave. …
Batille, the first cybersecurity company to detect and mitigate threats from the Internet of Things (IoT), today unveiled a massive vulnerability affecting the vast majority of low-cost wireless keyboards. Using a new attack that the Bastille Research Team has named “KeySniffer,” hackers can remotely “sniff” ALL the keystrokes of wireless keyboards from eight manufacturers from …
According to TorrentFreak, Artem Vaulin, 30, of Poland, was arrested in the Ukraine on a number of charges, including conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement. According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the copyrighted material over on the site …
In a last ditch effort to prevent the IANA transition, the GOP has included in its Republican Platform for 2016 [PDF] which was formally approved during the party’s national convention in Cleveland a policy position on “Protecting Internet Freedom.” The position affirms the effort to stop the oversight handover to a new body, it reads: …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.88 MB] the findings from its Phase 2 Global Consumer Research Survey. The key findings are listed below. Conducted by Nielsen, the study measured current consumer attitudes toward the gTLD landscape and domain name system (DNS), as well as changes in consumer attitudes from …
After nearly two years ICANN has approved Bulgaria‘s national domain. Initially there was some uncertainty over whether the request would be granted as .бг bears some visual similarities to Brazil‘s already registered “.br”. Имена.бг (“names”) is the first Bulgarian web address available entirely in Cyrillic. The Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications has said …
The Obama administration’s decision to give up U.S. control of regulating the internet is likely illegal, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said. “The Obama administration does not have the authorization from Congress,” Cruz said Thursday, speaking at a Heritage Foundation event on internet freedom. “And yet they are endeavoring to give away this valuable, critical property. …