Rare Domain Name Portfolio Announced For Sale (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

A rare domain name portfolio that includes all 50 U.S. state names is announced for sale, and the owner is motivated.

The Dream of Ubiquitous Connectivity: Voice and Video in Every IP Device (Converge! Network Digest)

Verizon Wins Cybersquatting Case A federal court in the Northern District of California has awarded Verizon $33.15 million in a case in which an Internet domain registration company tried to take advantage of Verizon and Verizon customers by using Internet names chosen to be easily confused with legitimate Verizon names.

ICANN Releases 10th Year Annual Report (CircleID)

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has released its 2008 Annual Report marking the organization's 10th year anniversary.

Phishers Now Twittering Their Scams (Washington Post)

Phishers are trying to trick Twitter users into forking over their user names and passwords by sending tweets that direct users to fake Twitter login pages, security experts warn. Update, 7:31 p.m. ET: Twitter now says that in an unrelated incident, the Twitter accounts for president-elect Barack Obama and 33 other notables were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools the ...

Targeted: Twitter Hit with Phishing Attack (Data Storage Today)

Twitter, the popular microblogging site, has become the latest target of phishers. The company is warning its members to be careful of messages that redirect them to spoofed Twitter sites in an attempt to steal their user names and passwords. "This particular scam sent out e-mails resembling those you might receive from Twitter if you get e-mail notifications of your Direct Messages. The ...

Domain Name Disputes Doubled Since 2003, Origin of Most Cases in US (CircleID)

Domain name disputes have been on steady rise for the past several years and have more than doubled since 2003. As reported today by Pingdom, while there was a period between 2000 and 2003 when the number of domain dispute cases declined, they have been continuously increased since 2003 with most cases involving more than one domain name.

Real war spawns virtual battle (Haaretz Daily)

The all-too-real war in the Gaza Strip has spilled over to virtual reality.

New domain names questioned (The Buffalo News)

WASHINGTON -- A proposal to create hundreds of new Internet domain names as alternatives to “.com” has suffered a setback as a key U. S. government agency warned that the plan might not benefit consumers or promote competition.

New Internet domain name plan criticized (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

A proposal to create hundreds of new Internet domain names as alternatives to ".com" has suffered a setback as a key U.S. government agency warned that the plan might not benefit consumers or promote competition.

Domain name reform to open up Internet wider (China Daily)

But recently one such Beijing resident Wu Xian met with some Internet troubles.