‘TLD News’ Category
Misconceptions About Spam
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com Sometimes I hear people or read writers that say things about spam that are incorrect. I thought I would clear those up in this blog post. 1. December is spam season When the holidays roll around, people start warning other people to watch their inboxes — December is spam season! By [...]
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The Issue Is the Digital Economy, Not Broadband
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com After some five years of public debate on the national broadband network it is heartening to see that more and more people are getting the message that the network means more than just fast internet access. Increasingly key decision-makers in business and government are reaching an understanding of the transformation that [...]
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Most Abusive Domain Registrations are Preventable
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com As the WHOIS debate rages and the Top-Level Domain (TLD) space prepares to scale up the problem of rogue domain registration persists. These are set to be topics of discussion in Costa Rica. While the ICANN contract requires verification, in practice this has been dismissed as impossible. However, in reviewing nearly [...]
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Measuring Root Server Performance
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com Root name servers are a core service of the Internet [Include footnote to DNS Root Name Server FAQ]. As such they receive a huge amount of queries and need to answer reliably with acceptable delay. The RIPE NCC is responsible for operating one of the 13 DNS root name servers K-root [...]
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US Telecoms Market Further Deteriorating
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com Some worrying signs are emerging in the USA. During the last decade I have questioned the economic viability of two parallel telecoms infrastructures. When these two network rollouts commenced no issue existed in relation to conflicting interests — one delivered telephone services, the other broadcasting services. But this all began to [...]
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Mobile Broadband Boom the Killer App FttH
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com It still amazes us that respected industry commentators join liberal politicians in questioning the need for FttH in the wake of the enormous success of mobile broadband. They refer to this phenomenon as proof that people are bypassing their fixed broadband and are now using the smartphones and tablets to obtain [...]
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Closing the Gaps: The Quest for a Secure Internet
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com Over the last year the world has been virtually buried under news items describing hacks, insecure websites, servers and scada systems, etc. Each and every time people seem to be amazed and exclaim “How is this possible?” Politicians ask questions, there is a short lived uproar and soon after the world [...]
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Google Public DNS Service Passes 70 Billion Requests Per Day, No Longer Experimental
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com Google reports that its “experimental” public DNS service launched in December of 2009 has now passed 70 billion requests a day and no longer considered experimental. From the announcement: “Google Public DNS has become particularly popular for our users internationally. Today, about 70 percent of its traffic comes from outside the [...]
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Google’s Free Public DNS Load Tops VeriSign, Raising Dot-Com Contract Tender Question
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com Google revealed on its official blog today that it is handling an average of more than 70 billion requests per day on its free Public DNS service. According to VeriSign’s latest public statistics, it is handling only an average of 59 billion DNS requests per day, less than that handled by [...]
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Canadian Government Stepping Up on Internet Surveillance
Source: Icann.org or circleid.com A Canadian law expected to be introduced next week could greatly assist law enforcement authorities in the country to access date revealing internet-user habits and personal information. Privacy watchdogs caution if the so-called Lawful Access law is passed, it would give police access to webbrowsing history and sensitive personal information, and [...]
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