4 Ways to Prevent Domain Name Hijacking

On the night of Monday, January 23, the hacktivist group UGNazi hijacked Coach.com, the Internet domain name of luxury goods manufacturer Coach. For several hours, fashionistas who wanted to ogle Coach's new Willis handbag on Coach.com or get a deal on its Penelope shoulder bag at Coachfactory.com were redirected to UGNazi's cryptic website. Imagine the confusion—and frustration—the redirect ...

Fortinet(R) Broadens Enterprise Security Reach With New Domain Name System (DNS) Caching Appliances "Powered by Nominum"

SUNNYVALE, CA-- - Fortinet® -- a world leader in high-performance network security -- today announced the introduction of two new DNS caching appliances designed for the SMB, Enterprise, Federal, Financial ...

ICANN CEO Defends Benefits of Domain Name Plan

As it prepares to launch a new domain name program later this week, the CEO of the group that manages the system defended the organization’s plan to allow for an unlimited number of new Internet addresses, saying the program will allow for badly needed competition. 

The snake oil that is domain registries’ big fat new revenue stream

The amount of bullshit reportage being published over this massive change to the internet's domain name system is breathtaking. Read more on the blog...

What's in a Domain Name? (in Mediacheck)

A surprising link between new web address extensions and the future of Internet rule.

Virgin in .xxx domain name battle

The Virgin Group is attempting to claim control of the domain name richardbranson.xxx which has been registered by a third party.

Internet is still vulnerable to cyber-criminals

On the afternoon of Oct. 21, 2002, hackers launched coordinated attacks on the 13 organizations principally responsible for managing the Internet's domain name system. It was a massive distributed denial-of-service...

VeriSign Confirms Multiple Security Breaches In 2010

VeriSign Inc. has confirmed that its computers and servers were repeatedly hacked in 2010, and that those responsible for the breach might have compromised critical information relating to the Internet's domain name system (DNS), Reuters reported on Thursday. “We have investigated and do not believe these attacks breached the servers that support our domain name system network,” VeriSign said in ...

Internet domain-name application process opens

Finding a domain name could be about to get dot-complicated. Starting today, the global body charged with coordinating the Internet's naming system is accepting applications for what are called generic top-level domains....

Domain registrar not liable for cybersquatting, US court rules

A domain name registrar was not liable for a form of trade mark infringement when a system it operates was used to redirect visitors from allegedly 'cybersquatting' web domain names to a pornographic website, a US court has ruled.