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Microsoft And Mozilla Acknowledge Web SSL Security Threat Demonstrated In Berlin
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:53 pm on Dec. 30, 2008 (utc 0)
The makers of the two most popular Web browsers, Microsoft and Mozilla, have acknowledged a potential security threat demonstrated by researchers in Berlin today that could undermine the trust users place in secure shopping and banking Web connections protected by Secure Socket Layer connections.
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ICANN Top Level Domain Plan Questioned By U.S. Department Of Commerce
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:40 pm on Dec. 23, 2008 (utc 0)
The United States Commerce Department has questioned a plan by Internet steward ICANN to allow a nearly unlimited number of new so-called generic top level domain names, as department officials expressed concerns about the proposed plan's costs and benefits.
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New Contact Information Top Level Domain .TEL Begins Taking Applications
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:49 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 (utc 0)
More than 100 Internet domain name registrars have begun processing early applications for a new type of advertising-free top level domain, called .tel, that acts as a global contact information system operated within the domain name system.
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ICANN And VeriSign Vie For Key Role In DNS Upgrade
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:44 pm on Oct. 13, 2008 (utc 0)
The United States Department of Commerce began seeking comments last week on who should operate a new more secure version of the Internet's Domain Name System, a role both commercial domain registrar VeriSign and the non-profit ICANN have expressed interest in playing.
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Drastic Changes Ahead For Internet Naming System
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:47 am on June 28, 2008 (utc 0)
ICANN announced Thursday that it intends to implement the most drastic and sweeping changes to the Internet domain naming system in the network's 40 year history, by allowing a nearly unlimited number of new so-called generic top level domain names.
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Making Money From Error Pages, ISPs Put Users At Security Risk
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:36 pm on April 21, 2008 (utc 0)
More than 70 Internet service providers are using a technique that can put their customers' online security at risk according to computer security expert Dan Kaminsky, who on Friday revealed how users of EarthLink could be targeted for various hacking exploits made possible through an agreement the ISP has with London-based advertising company BareFruit that attempts to make money when people misspell Web site names.
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Oversee.net Acquires Moniker.com from Seevast Corp
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:41 pm on Jan. 3, 2008 (utc 0)
Los Angeles-based Internet domain name marketing company Oversee.net announced today that it has acquired Pompano Beach, Florida-based "Domain Asset Management" firm Moniker.com from online marketing company Seevast Corp.
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ICANN Prioritizes Internationalized Domain Names
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:20 pm on Nov. 15, 2007 (utc 0)
Plans Address Five Billion People Still Without Internet Access. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced Wednesday that it will prioritize creation of domain names using languages not based on the Latin alphabet, in an effort to allow people everywhere to use the Internet in their own language.
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Monte Cahn on Auctions, RegisterFly, Arbitrage, and Domain Valuations
Lane_R_Ellis, 7:55 pm on Oct. 14, 2007 (utc 0)
"...Moniker, has been called the "Six Million Dollar Man", for brokering several of the biggest cash transactions in the history of selling Internet domain names."
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Rick "Domain King" Schwartz on Cameroon, Garbitrage and TRAFFIC Confer
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:39 pm on Oct. 13, 2007 (utc 0)
Rick Schwartz has been known for some time as the "Domain King" of the Internet domain name industry, and is sometimes even referred to as the "Webfather." He was a pioneer in the history of domain names, and is generally regarded as an expert in the field of web site traffic, flow and valuation. In 2004 he sold the domain name Men.com for $1.3 million and made a huge profit on his $15,000 initial purchase price. He has gained attention for believing that the value of domain names "would go up faster in value than any commodity ever know to mankind," and owns over 5,000 domain names, including:
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