TweetThe other day I saw a post from Morgan Linton saying he flipped the domain name “Summon.com” for a $14,000 profit. Now this isn’t a rare occurrence but it is the way he did it that impressed me. It impressed me because he had a plan and thought as a business man and not a [...] Continue reading →

TweetA pair of security researchers have proposed an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that would allow browsers to detect and block fraudulently-issued SSL certificates. Called TACK, which is short for Trust Assertions for Certificate Keys, the extension was developed by security researchers Trevor Perrin and Moxie Marlinspike and was submitted for consideration to the [...] Continue reading →

Tweetfrom the that-makes-no-sense dept If you don’t recall, among the various domains that ICE and the DOJ seized last year were two domains — rojadirecta.com and rojadirecta.org — held by a Spanish company, Puerto 80. After extended negotiations to try to get the government to return the domain names, Puerto 80 finally sued the government to get them back. [...] Continue reading →

Tweet By Shan LiMay 19, 2012, 6:00 a.m. – Luxury retailer Burberry won $180 million in two separate counterfeiting suits against networks of websites selling fake goods. Both suits, filed in federal court in Manhattan, accused knockoff artists of hawking items bearing the Burberry name and signature plaid [...] Continue reading →

Tweet Scramble for .Africa domain heats up, with an ICANN gTLD process imminent: ARC Africa can soon look forward to having its own online space, with plans firmly afoot to introduce a continental .africa generic Top Level Domain (TLD) by 2013. This is according to the African Registry Consortium (ARC), a pan-African consortium that [...] Continue reading →

Tweet The latest number of co.za domain names and the number of new registrations per year revealed There are currently around 780,000 .co.za domain names, with between 100,000 and 140,000 net additions annually. This is according to Uniforum SA director Neil Dundas. Dundas said that there are around 200,000 new .co.za registrations per year, but explained that [...] Continue reading →

TweetUnnerved by the Indian stand, IT monopolies are propagating the myth that a multilateral governance structure will kill the decentralised, multi-stakeholder nature of the Internet and lead to ‘government control’ Last year, in a statement to the U.N. General Assembly, India sought the creation of a U.N. Committee on Internet-Related Policies (CIRP) in order to [...] Continue reading →