ICANN’s transition away from US government oversight is not even a month old and the same old bullshit power struggles and existential threats appear to be in play as strongly as ever. Governments, via the chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee, last week yet again threatened that they could withdraw from ICANN and seek refuge [...] Continue reading →

$725,000 domain name looks mighty nice in TV commercial. I was at the gym the other day when a commercial caught my eye: Yep, that’s Rate.com. I have to admit that it looks good on a TV screen. GuaranteedRate bought the domain name for $725,000 from the Castellos this summer in a deal brokered [...] Continue reading →

Cross-device tracking (XDT) technologies are gaining popularity among marketers as they enable tracking a user's visited content across different devices and pushing relevant, more targeted content. In the upcoming Black Hat London presentation, security researcher from University College London, Vasilios Mavroudis and colleagues are going to describe and demonstrate the practical security and privacy risks [...] Continue reading →

Articles from October 23-28  That Botnet-of-Things malware is getting a nasty makeover Ars Technica | Sean Gallagher | October 27, 2016 Mirai—the malware responsible for creating a massive “botnet” of hacked Internet-connected cameras, digital video recorders, and other devices that interrupted Internet services for many last week—is still in action, according to data from the [...] Continue reading →

This episode is dedicated to the life of Lonnie Borck. Lonnie Borck, a colorful and well-known domain name investor, passed away earlier this month at age 47. This special episode of the Domain Name Wire Podcast is dedicated to Lonnie and the many lives he touched. We hear from Elliot Silver, who recalls the [...] Continue reading →

Whereas the changes in the interpretation of reality to include communication, we examine a problem to understand the Society of Information and Communication to its implications in the processing of spatial and temporal organization of social life. Swift changes as a result of the relationships between technology and society are reaching and changing the [...] Continue reading →

Whereas the changes in the interpretation of reality to include communication, we examine a problem to understand the Society of Information and Communication to its implications in the processing of spatial and temporal organization of social life. Swift changes as a result of the relationships between technology and society are reaching and changing the [...] Continue reading →