ICANN grills domain-hogging Network Solutions
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Who's the front runner here? Is Network Solutions attempting to reinvent reality? ICANN's looking into it.â¦
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Internet Security Systems' intrusion prevention software on Crossbeam Systems security switches.
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Single Packet Authorization fills the gaps in port knocking.
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The internet could soon have two new domain names, aimed at mobile services and the jobs market.
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It has interesting implications for firms that would like a Web appliance but also want the management features of a machine that's joined to an Active Directory domain, our columnist says.
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Servers that managed global internet traffic have been subjected to a concerted attack by hackers.
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Learns to salsa, eats fried Puerto Rican balls with dressing Hack's Notebook The ICANN event ritual we most enjoy here at El Reg is the final press conference, in which leaders Paul Twomey and Vint Cerf field questions from assorted hacks about the week's events. With that press conference - and the ICANN San Juan meeting itself - now a week behind us, we thought the time was right to offer a final tip of the cap to the latest ICANN extravaganza.â¦
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Unnamed registrar rides to rescue ICANN has finally found a registrar with a track record to take over renegade registrar RegisterFly's domains.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will discuss key projects and initiatives at a meeting this week, including the internationalization of the domain name system and a new, lucrative Web site registration practice that some object to. Other topics on the agenda for ICANN's 27th International meeting, to be held in Sao Paulo, include the group's strategic plan for 2007 to 2009 and next year's operating plan. Also on the discussion table are a workshop on IPV6 that will address what this new Internet protocol is and why it's needed, as well as a forum on the introduction of TLDs (top level domains). The meeting, which began Monday and ends Friday, will feature over 30 sessions and workshops. Attendees include engineers, businesspeople, government officials and private-sector executives from around the world. A major focus this week will be on the Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) initiative, a years-long project that aims to revamp the DNS system so that it can support domain names in a broad range of languages and alphabets that can't be represented via the ASCII character set, such as Arabic and Chinese. In Sao Paulo, ICANN will issue a status report on the IDN project and hold a training and a tutorial session. So far, through lab tests and meetings, ICANN is finding that the process to broaden the DNS' support for non-ASCII characters will be more difficult than originally thought, ICANN Chief Executive Officer and President Paul Twomey said Monday during a press conference. "This is really hard," he said, adding that ICANN hopes to have a technical solution in place by the end of 2007. "It has to be done carefully so that it works for the entire world." Attendees will also discuss a recent Web-site name registration practice called "kiting" and "tasting" that is generating much controversy. It involves the wholesale purchase of expired domain names, and the subsequent cancellation of most of them during a 5-day "grace" period allowed as part of the process. If canceled before the 5 days are up, the registration fee is fully refunded. Those who engage in this practice only keep the domain names that attract enough traffic to justify their registration fee, and proceed to "park" those Web sites and load them with pay-per-click ads. "There's a whole discussion going on in the community about whether there should be anything done about this," Twomey said. "There are people who think this isn't an appropriate behavior. [Others] think this is just the market at work." Those opposed to "kiting" are suggesting that ICANN impose some sort of fee whenever a registration is canceled before the grace period is over, a move they feel will discourage the practice.
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A controversial practice enables some domain name registrars to make short-term gains from registering domains that others might want. Now Google -- the vehicle for their revenue -- says it wants to do something about that.
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Domains of several new phishing sites are cropping up with known Storm worm domains. F-Secure researchers think phishers are leasing parts of the larger botnet.
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The company that controls domain names ending in .name charges for registration details that are publicly available for other top level domains. Security researchers charge the policy will create a haven for hackers.
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Insider dealing probe launched Internet oversight agency ICANN has launched an investigation into the possibility that insider information is being used to snap up desirable domain names before the person or organisation likely to be interested in them has had a chance to buy.â¦
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This paper discusses the use of NetFlow, a traffic profile monitoring technology available on many routers, for use in the early detection of worms, spammers, and other abnormal network activity in large enterprise networks and service providers.
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We have a few domains hosted on Network Solutions.  For one reason or another we were in a hurry and just used NetSol as our registrar.  BIG mistake!  They are one *pathetic* organization!  They are a DNS company.  That's what they DO!  Their DNS admin only allows 10 IPs. Of course they don't tell you this when you signup.  You only find out that the UI doesn't allow for additional IPs until try to add them.  To add insult to injury when you try to move AWAY from NetSol by changing your primary and secondary they drop your IP configuration immediately.  You're just out of luck if there are clients which have cached your primary and secondary DNS servers.  Now of course the solution would be  ...
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ICANN has begun commercial and technical negotiations with the applicant registries, bringing the number of domains in this second stage of evaluations to four. The other two are the .post and .travel domains.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has approved two new internet address types: .mobi and .jobs. This is just a preliminary approval.