In the aftermath, the company is instituting new protections and procedures to bolster the popular cloud storage platform’s security. During the coming weeks, Dropbox will be adding two-factor authentication as a sign-in option. Dropbox will also be keeping an eye on suspicious activity using automated mechanisms and will alert users if they are using easy-to-guess …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, founded in 1998, has as its mission to ensure a stable and unified global Internet. One of its key responsibilities is introducing and promoting competition in the registration of domain names, while ensuring the security and stability of the domain name system (DNS) Read more
So, with two weeks to go before the public comment window closes on August 12, 2012, please allow me to share my list of public comment “Dos” and “Don’ts” with you in the hopes that the effort you make to submit a comment will produce something actually worth reading by the evaluators or the Independent …
Today’s Internet connects 2 billion users with trillion daily views of web pages, videos and emails around the world. As an unstoppable friendly giant, it is also considered a threat by various political ideologies around the world. Read More
Clusters of websites within the map are grouped semantically; the author notes that “a vast porno cluster can be seen between Brazil and Japan as well as a host of minor clusters uniting websites of the same field or similar purposes.” read more
Some experts only think a few of the new gTLDs will succeed. A ‘Father of the Internet’, Vint Cerf, said in this article “I think only a few new TLDs will be notably successful, but I could be wrong.” Some other experts say they actually think the new TLDs will increase the value of dot.com …
A phased approach to IPv6 that’s so easy, you’ll almost think you’re still ignoring it ;With careful planning, most enterprises can gradually integrate IPv6 without spending a lot of money, consuming a lot of IT resources, or disrupting day-to-day operations. read more
The report suggests that Opera users in 47% of African countries turn to international news sites before their country’s own reporting, with BBC News most popular in 18 out of 25 of these countries. As for the most popular websites overall, unsurprisingly Facebook leads the pack in most countries, pipped to the post by Google …
Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the Internet’s governing body of the domain name system — has offered the opportunity for domain registries, startups, large corporations, and organizations all around the world to apply for generic top-level (gTLD) domain names.This current surge in registration for new domain extensions will see as many as 1,000 new one’s …
The obscure U.N. agency is mulling rules that could have profound, detrimental effects on the Internet. Pushed by various countries and interest groups, the International Telecommunications Union — an obscure United Nations agency that develops voluntary standards for international phone networks and communications satellites — is mulling whether to adopt new rules that could have …