Aug 13 2008

Experts blame United States for DNS Security Hole! Problem still not fixed.

The blame game has begun!
Check out the following from a story from the wired blog:
Despite a recent high-profile vulnerability that showed the net could be hacked in minutes, the domain name system — a key internet infrastructure — continues to suffer from a serious security weakness, thanks to bureaucratic inertia at the U.S. government agency [...]

Aug 10 2008

If ICANN = ICAN’T, then do we “really” need ICANN?

Here is how it goes:

Top-level domains: if you or I can, do we need Icann?
THERE WAS a time when the internet didn’t just have a father or a godfather: for a brief period, it had a fully fledged god. The god died and a private company, Icann, took his place. Now it’s time we asked [...]

Aug 10 2008

ICANN to auction new gTLDs

Just came across this nice news article:
ICANN has just published a paper from its contractor PowerAuctions LLC, regarding the use of auctions to award new Top Level Domains (TLD) strings in case of contention.
I can understand what ICANN wants to avoid. In the past, it has been criticized for using the “beauty contest” model with the [...]

Aug 4 2008

The Billion-Dollar Domain Babies by E-Commerce-Times: Am I MISSING something?

There have been a lot of discussion on domain forums and blogs regarding ICANN’s plan to open up the Internet domain system and let people create any kind of TLD they can think of. Some people said its a good idea to allow all kind of extensions, while majority said its only going to confuse the web [...]

Jul 31 2008

USA will NOT give up control of internet domain name root zone

This is no surprise!
I just read on “Intellectual Property Watch” that United States government will not give up its oversight of the internet domain name root zone.
The Bush administration has no intention of giving up United States oversight role of the management of the central root zone of the internet domain name system (DNS), the [...]

Jul 22 2008

What are gTLDs and ccTLDs?

What are gTLDs and ccTLDs?
 
There are well over 200 TLDs assigned by ICANN. TLD stands for Top Level Domain. such as .com, .net, .mobi, .us, .de, etc. 
A sub-domain is essentially a part of a domain such as About.DNBlogger.com where “About” is a sub-domain of the main domain DNBlogger.com. A domain can have virtually unlimited sub-domains. [...]

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