Tag Archives: Internet governance

Internet Giants Join Hands to Fight Child Abuse Through Hash List

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In a landmark move Google, Facebook and Twitter have decided to fight against child pornography. The web giants will collaborate with IWF, the Internet Watch Foundation.IWF is a UK based anti-abuse...

Taylor Swift buys Taylorswift.adult and Taylorswift.porn

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June 1st onwards, you can buy internet domain names such as .porn, .sucks, .adult, etc. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers brought about an increase in the number of...

Google Paid $25 Million for New Top-Level Domain

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Google holds a number of world records: the company is the largest Internet advertiser, the largest Internet search engine, the company with the largest online interactive map, and more. But Google...

ICANN has been hacked by a Bunch of Phishers

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ICANN has suffered an attack by a group of hacking experts. And the results are not good. It is investigating the break in and what has been revealed is that a spear phishing attack was responsible...

US to Relax its Hold on the Internet, Plans to Leave Oversight of ICANN

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It is a decision that has been welcomed by the rest of the world. But with the United States turning over a new leaf towards greater tolerance, many local Yankee businesses are getting apprehensive....

Seven Things To Think About Before You Register That New Domain

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We’ve all grown comfortable with existing Internet domains — which have suffixes like .com, .net, and .edu — to the point where they seemed fixed in the universe like the North Star.  But this...

ICANN Slays Google’s Dotless Domain Search Plans

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Google’s dream of owning a top level dotless search domain has turned into a nightmare. The gigantic search engine wanted ownership of an "http://search" dotless domain. But this has come up against...

Pirate Bay sails to the Caribbean

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According to TorrentFreak, Swedish authorities have filed the motion at the Disctrict Court of Stockholm in behalf of the entertainment industry. The motion demands the seizure of the The Pirate Bay...