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After being ordered by a court to pay a $65 million restitution, the sex.com domain hijacker, Stephen Cohen, spent four years on the run. Law enforcement officials found him in Tijuana and arrested him on Thursday. [...] Continue reading
ICANN voted to approve the new .xxx TLD, managed by the ICM Registry, reversing their original decision. They are working with the Registry to finalize the details in hopes to have the TLD available by the end of the year. [...] Continue reading
Experts claim that DNS is the Achilles’ heel of the Internet and that the whole system needs a new foundation. In recent years, major sites were taken offline because of DNS errors. Additionally, security expert Dan Kaminsky reported that approximately 230,000 name servers were susceptible to DNS ‘cache poisoning’. [...] Continue reading