Domain News: Weekly Digest, November 20, 2011

• Exclusive Q&A with Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines - IDNBlog (blog)

  Exclusive Q&A with Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines IDNBlog (blog) The .com TLD will be very dominant for a long time, but if you have to think about what extension a domain name falls under, you are less likely to just type in a name on a guess, and that means that typo traffic will lessen. A great .com name will …

• Zero-day attack fingered for global DNS crashes - iT News

  Zero-day attack fingered for global DNS crashes iT News The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has issued patches for its BIND 9 domain name server software after an "unidentified network event" caused global servers to crash last week. … and more »

• ISPs versus SOPA: Anti-piracy bill could force severe privacy-invading measures - ZDNet (blog)

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  ISPs versus SOPA: Anti-piracy bill could force severe privacy-invading measures ZDNet (blog) This could not only include the blocking of a website in its entirety, through existing processes for domain name seizures, but the Act could force net service providers to block IP addresses also. As warned by Markham Erickson, head of NetCoalition, … and more »

• Filtering and Blocking Closer To The Core Of The Internet? - Intellectual Property Watch (blog)

  Filtering and Blocking Closer To The Core Of The Internet? Intellectual Property Watch (blog) For the community that cares for the functioning of the domain name system (DNS), it came as a shock when Paul Vixie, founder of the Internet Software Consortium (ISC), said that the BIND software would allow the filtering out of sites with a bad … and more »

• Abramoff wants his (Web domain) name back - UPI.com

  Abramoff wants his (Web domain) name back UPI.com 18 (UPI) — Disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff says the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee won't give him back his name, or rather his Web domain name. The DCCC has owned the rights to the Web domain name "jackabramoff.com" since … and more »

• Adult Companies Bring Antitrust Lawsuit Against ICANN, .XXX Registry - Search Engine Watch

  Adult Companies Bring Antitrust Lawsuit Against ICANN, .XXX Registry Search Engine Watch Two adult entertainment companies have filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the operators of the .xxx top-level domain, and the administrator of the Domain Name System (DNS), alleging violations related … and more »

• Why A Domain Broker Won’t Sell Your Domain Name - Elliot’s Blog (blog)

  Why A Domain Broker Won't Sell Your Domain Name Elliot’s Blog (blog) I'm often either asked to broker domain names (which I don't do) or asked why a domain broker isn't willing to put the effort into selling someone's domain names. There are several reasons why a domain broker may not sell particular domain name(s), …

• Fake Twitter account riles Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan - The Sheboygan Press

  Fake Twitter account riles Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan The Sheboygan Press Heimermann said he redirected the ryanformayor.com address to his own website last week when the domain name expired, meaning Ryan no longer had a legal right to it. The online domain registry, however, says Heimermann registered the domain name in … and more »

• Surge in Phishing Targeted at Chinese Websites and Banks - SPAMfighter News

  Surge in Phishing Targeted at Chinese Websites and Banks SPAMfighter News Figures reveal that 70% of the malicious domain name registration across the world was set up towards infecting the Chinese institutions. Researchers at APWG further revealed that Chinese cybercriminals arranged 11192 unique domain names and 3629 CO. …

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