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  • August 2008

    • Patch for Major Security Flaw Is Ineffective

      New York Times  |  Aug 9, 08 11:57 AM CDT

      Patch for Major Security Flaw Is Ineffective

      (Newser) - A fatal flaw in Internet security has a patch, but it’s a leaky one, the New York Times reports. Yesterday, a Russian scientist demonstrated an attack that secretly redirected web traffic. It took him just hours using standard equipment; before the patch, it would have taken seconds. Thieves could use the method to hijack a user’s bank or credit card information. More »

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      Internet  • software  • identity theft  • domain names  • data theft  • online crime  • Dan Kaminsky

    • 'Every Network Is at Risk' Thanks to Bug

      Wired  |  Aug 7, 08 8:05 AM CDT

      'Every Network Is at Risk' Thanks to Bug

      (Newser) - Security researcher Dan Kaminsky outlined what he calls the biggest Internet security hole since 1997 to a gathering of experts yesterday, and it's a lot worse than had been understood, Wired reports. “Every network is at risk,” Kaminsky said at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. "That's what this flaw has shown." The bug, a hole in the Domain Name Service, has wider implications than anyone realized when word of it leaked last month, Kaminksy said. More »

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      Internet  • Internet security  • cybercrime  • domain names  • phishing  • Internet domains  • Dan Kaminsky

  • July 2008

    • Domain Name Bug Worries Web Providers

      New York Times  |  Jul 30, 08 9:33 AM CDT

      Domain Name Bug Worries Web Providers

      (Newser) - ISPs worldwide are racing to patch a flaw in the design of the Internet that could allow criminals to steal personal and financial details of Web users by diverting them to fake sites. The flaw resides in the procedures of the Domain Name System, which translates URLs into numerical Internet protocol. The problem underlines the dangers of the Internet's jumbled, decentralized architecture, in which no one entity can fix such a weakness, writes the New York Times . More »

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      Internet  • Microsoft  • Internet security  • domain names  • ISP  • World Wide Web  • DNS

    • Brangelina Babies Off to Busy Start

      USA Today  |  Jul 14, 08 9:35 AM CDT

      Brangelina Babies Off to Busy Start

      (Newser) - At just 2 days old, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are the world's most sought-after celebrity pair—and parents Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in managing mode. Just Jared reports the Brangelina lawyers bought out all domains with the bambinos' names—and experts tell USA Today that a photo shoot will occur in the next few weeks to deter rogue paparazzi. More »

    • Domain-Name Rule Change 'Brand Owner's Nightmare'

      BusinessWeek  |  Jul 1, 08 5:45 PM CDT

      Domain-Name Rule Change 'Brand Owner's Nightmare'

      (Newser) - The decision of an internet oversight body to allow more domain names opens the playing field to cybersquatters—who register domain names in the hopes someone else will have to purchase them later, BusinessWeek reports. No more is it a matter of simply .com or .net: Squatters may now buy up countless addresses, forcing brand names to keep a much wider-ranging eye on the web. More »

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      Internet  • domain names  • World Wide Web  • ICANN  • web domain  • infringement

  • June 2008

    • Internet Group Eases Rules for New Domain Names

      Associated Press  |  Jun 26, 08 1:17 PM CDT

      Internet Group Eases Rules for New Domain Names

      (AP) - The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules today to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old addressing system. The panel, meeting in Paris, unanimously approved new guidelines to streamline review of proposed new suffixes; under the old rules, only 13 were approved in the last 8 years. More »

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      Internet  • domain names

    • Free Expression Comes to Domain Names

      BBC  |  Jun 24, 08 4:25 PM CDT

      Free Expression Comes to Domain Names

      (Newser) - Domain names may soon be open for anyone to create, providing companies and individuals with unprecedented freedom to carve out their own corner of the Net, the BBC reports. The Internet's biggest shakeup in decades "will allow groups, communities and business to express their identities online,” sad the head of the independent nonprofit that assigns names. More »

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      Internet  • domain names  • Internet domains

  • April 2008

    • Pizza.com Name Sells for $2.6M

      Baltimore Sun  |  Apr 4, 08 8:55 AM CDT

      Pizza.com Name Sells for $2.6M

      (Newser) - The domain name pizza.com sold at auction yesterday for $2.6 million, netting a tidy little profit for a Baltimore man who bought 14 years ago for $20, the Baltimore Sun reports. Seller Chris Clark held onto the name over the years, making sure to keep up with the $20 annual registration fees. Then he read that vodka.com recently sold for $3 million, and "I thought, 'Why don't I just try to see what the level of interest is?'" he said. More »

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      Internet  • website  • domain names  • pizza  • web domain

  • February 2008

    • Domain Snatchers Hit With Lawsuit

      Network World  |  Feb 26, 08 12:10 PM CST

      Domain Snatchers Hit With Lawsuit

      (Newser) - A class-action lawsuit filed yesterday targets a top purveyor of domain names and its alleged practice of “frontrunning,” Network World reports. Network Solutions essentially registers a domain name the second a customer searches for it, forcing the customer to pay the company’s above-market rate of $35 for the address. The suit also names ICANN for "aiding and abetting fraudulent concealment." More »

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      lawsuit  • domain names  • ICANN  • Network Solutions

  • January 2008

    • Google Sours on 'Domain Tasters'

      Associated Press  |  Jan 26, 08 10:23 AM CST

      Google Sours on 'Domain Tasters'

      (Newser) - Google aims to stop entrepreneurs from "domain name tasting," the AP reports. The practice exploits a 5-day grace period during which registrants can return a domain for a full refund; meantime, the buyer puts up ads and evaluates whether the site would bring in enough revenue to keep it—the equivalent of intending to return a gown after wearing it once. More »

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      Google  • online advertising  • domain names  • Internet domains  • AdSense

  • December 2007

    • Latest Domain Name Hack Disguises Its Danger

      PC World  |  Dec 11, 07 8:48 PM CST

      Latest Domain Name Hack Disguises Its Danger

      (Newser) - The misdirection of “open-recursive” DNS servers, which facilitate web-surfing by translating verbal domain names into numerical IP addresses, is the new, more covert face of cyber-criminality, and could explode into a new wave of phishing attacks, IDG News reports. Hackers can use these types of DNS servers to redirect a web user to pages of their choosing, regardless of the web address they entered. More »

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      cybercrime  • domain names  • phishing  • Internet domains  • DNS

  • November 2007

    • Foreign Domain Names Coming to Net

      ZDNet  |  Nov 15, 07 3:45 PM CST

      Foreign Domain Names Coming to Net

      (Newser) - Soon, Chinese domain names can at long last be in Chinese. Addressing one of international critics’ longest-standing complaints, ICANN, the independent non-profit that regulates the Internet, is putting internationalized domain names on the fast track, ZDNet reports. Studies are already underway on how to integrate domains with non-Latin characters into the net’s framework, and what technical impact that would have. More »

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      Internet  • domain names  • ICANN  • Vint Cerf

  • October 2007

    • Insider Trading May Have Net Variant

      Associated Press  |  Oct 24, 07 1:39 PM CDT

      Insider Trading May Have Net Variant

      (Newser) - Someone call Michael Milken: Insider trading trailblazers may have found a new perch online. ICANN is investigating a poaching practice it's calling “front running,” in which buyers with inside information grab desirable domain names before others can register them. Speculation on the shadowy URL snatchers runs to viruses and other software that monitor interest in available domains, the AP reports. More »

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      Internet  • insider trading  • domain names  • computer virus  • ICANN  • Michael Milken

    • NFL Team Yanks $275K Bid for Cowboys.com

      ComputerWorld  |  Oct 23, 07 4:32 PM CDT

      NFL Team Yanks $275K Bid for Cowboys.com

      (Newser) - The Dallas Cowboys wanted the domain name Cowboys.com, but not that badly. The team had to withdraw a winning bid of $275,000 after realizing how much it had offered; the 'Boys claimed they intended to bid only $275 in a URL auction conducted by phone this month, ComputerWorld reports. The auction firm acknowledged the word “thousand” may not have been repeated with each bid. More »

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      football  • auction  • Dallas Cowboys  • domain names  • bid

  • June 2007

    • Is It a Top?

      Search Engine Land  |  Jun 26, 07 7:01 AM CDT

      Is It a Top?

      (Newser) - WashingtonVC has purchased the domain name SEO.com (as in "search engine marketing") for $5 million for its portfolio company Web Targeted.  With a large percentage of Web traffic now coming from search engines, optimizing Web sites for visibility to them has become one of the hottest areas in which to invest. More »

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      Web 2.0  • domain names  • web traffic  • search engine marketing

  • May 2007

    • Web Mogul Controls $300 Million in URLs

      CNN  |  May 23, 07 6:05 AM CDT

      Web Mogul Controls $300 Million in URLs

      (Newser) - Kevin Ham rules the shadowy Internet domain name market, having amassed an online real estate empire worth over $300 million, Business 2.0 reports. The doctor-turned-tech tycoon began buying and selling URLs in the nascent days of the web; today he trades hundreds of addresses a day, sometimes for as much as $350,000. More »

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      Internet  • computer  • domain names  • web surfing  • computer programming  • web

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