ICANN Auctioning New Top-Level Domains: Serving Public Interest or Its Own? (CircleID)
One of these updates is a paper by ICANN's "auction design consultant PowerAuctions LLC". The document makes a case for an auction to be held for the "resolution of contention among competing new gTLD applicants for identical or similar strings."
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The Bid for International Cyber Property Rights (E-Commerce Times)
Who would like to bid the highest amount for the exclusive global rights to the new domain suffix, .dubai, under ICANN's latest policy? Such a suffix will create a powerful domain root that will corner some 180 services underneath it, like go.dubai, hotel.dubai, job.dubai, cars.dubai or fly.dubai. Who would be the next global cyber-branding leader of this new millennium?
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Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers (ZDNet)
In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...
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How Rise in Nationalism and Industry's Lack of Foresight Could Mean a Fragmented and Isolated Web (CircleID)
I have been thinking a lot lately on the topic of the free flow of information on the internet—what kinds of tools are available now and in the future for governments (especially repressive ones) to control content, isolate their people and keep any contrary viewpoints censored.
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Service Channels (Web Host Directory)
Tucows Inc, a leading provider of Internet services to web hosting companies recent survey has produced findings that revealed resellers of email and domain names are missing significant business opportunities to tap into social network users.
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