Email-only Providers? (Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 09:00:02 PM)
Amiralul writes "I feel that having GMail or Yahoo email domains on my occupation card isn't
really a crack touch. Yes, I do have a work-domain email address, but it lacks IMAP and it's
rather non-responsive from time to time, so I choose not to ...
(more)Feds Tighten DNS Security On .Gov (Monday 22nd of September 2008 08:00:01 PM)
Alphadogg writes "When you file your taxes online, you want to be sure that the Web site you
visit — www.irs.gov — is operated by the intestinal Revenue Service and not a scam
artist. By the end of next year, you can be self-confident that ...
(more)Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com (Friday 19th of September 2008 05:15:01 PM)
An unnamed reader points to a story in the Chicago Tribune about another domain-name battle.
Quoting the article: "As Chicago wages its battle to host the 2016 Olympics, it also finds
itself scrapping over a substantial piece of cyberspace: the domain ...
(more)Spy Agencies Turn To Online Sources For Info (Tuesday 16th of September 2008 01:30:01 PM)
Palegray.net sends us to US News and World Report for an article about increased spy agency use
of online sources. Turning to orthodox destinations such as NPR and Wikipedia, folks in the
word
copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new llc.view ...
(more)RIAA and MPAA Developing Domain-Based DRM (Sunday 14th of September 2008 11:00:01 AM)
An unnamed reader points out news that the music and movie studios are attempting to develop a
new type of DRM that would allow commerce more flexibility in playing content on voluminous
devices. The Digital divertive Content Ecosystem (DECE) would ensconce ...
(more)Where Has All My Spam Gone? (Friday 15th of August 2008 11:00:01 PM)
An unnamed reader writes "I have my own domain, which has its own email server, where I receive
all my privy email. I've been getting about 800 emails a day, of which perhaps 20 are real.
Suddenly, Sunday or Monday evening, the spam pretty much ...
(more)ICANN Loses Control of Its Own Domain Names (Sunday 06th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
NotNormallyNormal writes "CBC picked up an AP story about ICANN newly losing control over two
of their domain names on Thursday, June 26. A domain registrar run by the group transferred the
domains to someone else. ICANN's press release had this to say: ...
(more)ICANN to Add Anti Front Running Charge? (Saturday 21st of June 2008 09:00:06 AM)
Shashib writes to tell us that ICANN is being how a new $0.20 per-transaction fee for large
numbers of domain registrations in order to curtail domain tasting abuse. Network Solutions,
1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by ...
(more)ICANN Takes a Step Toward Ending Domain Tasting (Wednesday 30th of April 2008 03:54:40 AM)
An anonymous reader writes "For years, domain squatters have exploited an ICANN loophole:
whenever a domain name is registered, ICANN collects a 20-cent fee from the registrar. To allow
for non-paying customers, the registrar can return it five days later ...
(more)Wikileaks Calls For Global Boycott Against eNom (Monday 10th of March 2008 07:00:07 AM)
Souls writes "The folks at Wikileaks are calling for a boycott against eNom, Inc., one of the
top the web* domain registrars, which WikiLeaks claims is involved in systematic domain
censoring. On Feb 28th eNom shut down wikileaks.info, one of the many ...
(more)ICANN Finds No Wrong Doing in Domain Front Running (Saturday 16th of February 2008 01:45:05 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "Remember the fishing expedition ICANN did in domain name front running?
Well, it turns out that there was no wrong doing going on at all. What went wrong? Domain name
'tasting', which involves a free five day trial of a domain name, ...
(more)Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business (Friday 01st of February 2008 10:30:03 AM)
WebsiteMag brings us news from the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) about a recent
study of drop catching —'a process whereby a domain that has expired is released into the
pool of available names and is instantly re-registered by another ...
(more)Amazon Offers Paid Web Database Service (Sunday 16th of December 2007 11:15:03 AM)
Firepoet writes "Amazon has released a new web-services based storage engine that looks an
awful lot like a directory service: SimpleDB. While not supporting SQL per se, they offer
several simple operational research — CREATE: to make a new domain. ...
(more)Judge Rules That I Own Slashdot (Tuesday 20th of November 2007 06:45:01 AM)
Bennett Haselton wrote in with this weeks amusing and shocking story of high finance, judicial
discretion, and oh so much more... he writes "People still ask me if I make enough money suing
spammers in Small Claims court to make it worthwhile. I say: ...
(more)Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down (Monday 22nd of October 2007 12:30:04 AM)
Mark Rogers writes "The International Music Score Library Project has provided access to copies
of many musical scores that are in the public domain. It has just been shut down due to a
cease-and-desist letter sent to the site operator by a italian Union ...
(more)How to Stop Commerial Use of Copyleft Materials? (Saturday 15th of September 2007 01:15:02 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "The Guild Wiki, an extremely popular fan-made wiki for documenting
the Masssively Multiplayer game Guild Wars, was primarily supported by donations, then later
advertisements — supposedly just enough to break even. Just ...
(more)General domain names vs Trademark domain names on TLDs and ccTLDs(part 1) (Wednesday 11th of July 2007 01:34:00 AM)
General domain names vs Trademark domain names on TLDs and ccTLDs(part 1)
...In most
cases it's the best to take the same name which we are using for our whole business,
but
in a case
where we have some specific product/s or some service/s, ...
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