24 Days Ago - In addition to funding broadband projects in the states, particularly in rural areas, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, includes funds for collection of state-level broadband data, as well as state-wide broadband mapping and planning. The... (Read More)

27 Days Ago - Two groups are working to set up a .gay top-level Internet domain, with plans for using some of the proceeds for registering sites in that domain to support gay causes, according to an article in the New York Times. While it can cost up to $400,000 to set up a new top-level domain, companies... (Read More)

31 Days Ago - In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, Congress appropriated $7.2 billion for broadband grants, loans, and loan guarantees to be administered by the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications... (Read More)

Aug 11th, 2009 - As feared, the Administration has caved to telecom industry restrictions on mapping the availability of broadband Internet, making it less likely that $7 billion in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus package, will actually help improve... (Read More)

Jun 4th, 2009 - Some people are complaining that the company hoping to map the availability of broadband Internet is too closely tied to the same major telecommunications and cable companies that stand to benefit from the more than $7 billion in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also... (Read More)

Jun 3rd, 2009 - Ever wondered just how big the Internet is? I know I have, and during my search for an answer I have discovered along the way how fast it is and how much spam it produces. But now I know how big it is as well. When it comes to size, however, then you have to consider the metric upon which the... (Read More)

Apr 1st, 2007 - Proposals for a virtual red light Internet district have been overturned for the third time during a contentious meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Portugal. Concluding business at the meeting, a resolution rejecting a proposal from the ICM Registry to... (Read More)

Feb 9th, 2007 - The biggest test of Internet homeland security went pretty much unnoticed this week. Yet it represents the most serious attack on the Internet itself for five years. On the 6th February a 12 hour concerted Distributed Denial of Service attack took place aimed at the DNS root servers that manage... (Read More)

Dec 22nd, 2006 - J.K.Rowling has now officially announced that the latest, and last, in the Harry Potter series of books will be called ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ putting an end to the frenzy of speculation on the subject over the last few months. While it has been genuine fans interested in all things... (Read More)

Aug 24th, 2006 - It’s bad enough, as an individual, to discover that the domain name you wanted has been snapped up by some corporate pirate looking to make a mighty profit by sitting on it and selling it on. It is even worse when these cyber-squatters snap up a domain you had been using but somehow managed to let... (Read More)

Mar 8th, 2009 - Crikey! And there I was thinking we were slap bang in the middle of a global recession. Things can't be that bad, I guess, if a retailer can find $5.1 million to pay for a new domain name. Yet that is exactly what Toys R Us has paid out in order purchase the toys.com domain, making it the biggest... (Read More)

Sep 4th, 2008 - According to the VeriSign Domain Report for the second quarter of 2008 which has just been published, there were some 168 million domain name registrations across the Top Level Domain Names at the midpoint of the year. That represents a 22 percent increase over the same period last year, and up... (Read More)

Jul 30th, 2008 - I guess you could call it karma. HD Moore's company, BreakingPoint, found that traffic was being diverted to a scammer Google page. This kind of cache poisoning attack on DNS servers is not unusual, however this particular case was because HD Moore is the man who created the Metasploit hacking... (Read More)

Jan 30th, 2008 - Although there has been no great fuss made, no pin badges sold and no banners waved, Monday 4th February is for all intents and purposes the day IPv6 grows up. Because from that day, IPv6 IP addresses will be able to be directly translated into domain names and vice versa, without the need for the... (Read More)

Jul 22nd, 2008 - Halvar Flake is a researcher. Here's how he describes himself on his blog: "I like simple things. And complex things. And drinking beer with people like Fyodor Yarochkin. I like South America. And some parts of Asia, specifically Kuala Lumpur. I like French. I like Spanish. I'd like to like more... (Read More)

Apr 16th, 2007 - If you're visiting a known site such as Google.com, you're perfectly safe, right? Wrong. New DNS vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows 2000 and 2003 severs could potentially allow a DNS server to get hijacked, and redirect a user to a completely different site than they expected to see. The... (Read More)

Dec 17th, 2006 - Google has now introduced its "Google Apps for Your Domain" service. Google Apps is a free collection of tools targeted at small businesses, including online web applications such as a GMail, Google Page Creator, customized start page, among others. This has already been around for a while, but now... (Read More)