Battle over Website Address
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An internet entrepreneur today claimed he was fighting a David versus Goliath battle with computer giant Apple over the ownership of a website address.
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The Internet's domain name system is in danger of being swamped by speculators who harvest expired site names and re-register them, a practice that could make it harder to fight cybersquatters, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization.
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By Chris Parker, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 24--Schuylkill County's district attorney will determine whether charges should be filed because the Republican controller candidate took over Internet domain names referring to his Democratic opponent.
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Some customers are concerned that domain registrar and hosting firm can't handle early move to Daylight Saving Time.
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Falls off the internet the best place to go for something awful - is recovering from Domain Name Server problems yesterday that left the site unaccessible for many users.â¦
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Uzbek billionaire prompts Blog solidarity Political websites have lined up in defence of a former diplomat whose blog was deleted by hosting firm Fasthosts after threats from lawyers acting for billionaire Arsenal investor Alisher Usmanov.â¦
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Network Solutions is standing by its controversial policy of automatically registering some domain names that are the subject of searches on the company&#39;s Web site.After testing the concept in December, the domain name registration company quietly began doing this over the past weekend. Potential customers who used the company&#39;s &quot;Find a domain&quot; search engine would suddenly find the domain names they had been searching for were registered to Network Solutions itself, making them temporarily unable to purchase the domain from another provider.Industry watchers were quick to blast the new policy, saying that it either forced searchers to become Network Solutions customers, or exposed their ideas to scammers, who would be able to snatch up the domains the second they were released. &quot;It is a deplorable action that Network Solutions would announce potential domain names to the entire world,&quot; wrote Jay Westerdal, on the DomainTools blog.If cutting down on domain name scamming was the goal, &quot;someone should be fired over the implementation,&quot; wrote Andrew Allemann, a blogger with Domain Name Wire .On Wednesday, Network Solutions CEO Champ Mitchell said that his company planned to change the site&#39;s design to ensure that users are notified of this policy. The company is also looking into adding a feature that would make give users the option of keeping their searches un-registered, although that would require cooperation from domain name registries, he said.Ironically, Mitchell said that Network Solutions came up with the search registration process in an effort to cut down on the scamming that has plagued the industry over the past two years. &quot;We are not trying to make a bunch of money off of this,&quot; he said.By registering the domains immediately, Network Solutions is keeping them out of the hands of scammers who take advantage of a loophole in the way names are registered. It has become increasingly common for scammers to register large number of domains for a short period of time and then to keep the ones that generate Web traffic, a practice called domain tasting. Because a domain can be held without charge for up to five days, this practice costs the scammer almost nothing, but it can be lucrative.In another practice, called front running, scammers have found ways -- some of them illegal -- to keep track of domain name searches and then hold onto those domains themselves, hoping to sell them to the people doing the searching.Some critics have said that Network Solutions&#39; new practice amounts to front running, but Mitchell disagrees, saying the point of the system is to protect customers from the front-runners.His company has developed an algorithm, designed to identify legitimate domain name searches and then automatically register the domain names being searched for on behalf of Network Solutions. These domains are held with a Web-page notice saying that they are available for sale for a four-day period. This gives the Network Solutions customer a window of opportunity to purchase the domain before it snatched up by a scammer, Mitchell aid.Mitchell added that if ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that oversees the domain name system, would move to cut down on these type of scams, then his company wouldn&#39;t have to engage in this kind of automatic search registration. &quot;We would be perfectly happy to end this process if ICANN or the registries would do something to protect small businesses or other small users,&quot; he said.A $0.25 non-refundable domain name registration fee would probably be enough to make domain tasting or front running unprofitable, he added.
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A Russian human rights Web site portal  has been attacked by unknown assailants, forcing it to close  down and move to a new address, the Web site said on Monday.
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OnePhone Holding AB thought it had a good case against Indigo Networks over the rights to the onephone.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization arbitration panel thought differently.
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Of John Doe and IP addresses Comment Bad things happen online. Trade secrets are lost or stolen. Personal information is compromised. Copyrights and trademarks are infringed. Bloggers post confidential information, defamatory information, or just annoying information. Websites host stolen credit cards, hacking tools and techniques, or other things that you might not want.â¦
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Apple Computers is attempting to nab the domain www.itunes.co.uk from a British entrepreneur in a true David vs. Goliath battle. Benjamin Cohen registered his domain in 2000 for a music search engine called âCyberBritainâ.
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As I write this article a war is going on on the battlefield of the browsers (programs for surfing the internet such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox).
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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Rumors abound linking Ask Jeeves and Firefox.
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Operators of the ".travel" domain name are proposing a new search service to help guide people who mistype Web addresses or seek nonexistent ones, reviving a debate over how much control such organizations should have in directing Internet traffic.
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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With The New York Times picking up the recent story of the (mostly minor) anti-Adblock Plus protest, its worth looking into the subject and seeing just where a Webmaster/ad-block developer arms race could take us.