Asia Recognized; Porn in Limbo
Asia Recognized; Porn in Limbo
The Asia-Pacific region gets its own domain -- .asia -- but ICANN delays a decision on whether to assign all those juicy sex sites an .xxx home.
Associated Press
8:21 a.m. Dec. 6, 2005 PDT
The quasi-governmental organization that oversees the internet has tentatively a...more...Net Dust Storm Blows Into Tunis
...ons, the WSIS has been overtaken by the contentious issue of internet governance -- in particular, the question of who runs the highest levels of the domain name system, the technology that maps name like wired.com into the numeric IP addresses the internet uses under the hood.
As the conference ope......more... Baring It All for Breast Cancer
...reasts?
Overall, folks on the internet have embraced the event.
Our hosting company has donated all hosting and bandwidth for the site, purchased our domain name and moved us to our own server space -- in addition to their annual monetary donation, she says. When our site receives publicity, they gr......more... Decision Deferred on Porn Domain
Decision Deferred on Porn Domain
Catalan speakers receive their own domain name, but porn aficionados still have no idea when, or if, they'll get theirs.
Associated Press
7:57 a.m. Sep. 16, 2005 PDT
The internet's key oversight agency approved a domain name for the Catalan language Thursday while de...more... Google Techs, Webmasters Mingle
...nd-the-scenes twists and turns that can cause websites to rise and fall in Google's search results. For the millions of websites without a well-known domain name, those rankings can mean the difference between success or failure because Google's search engine drives so much of the internet's traffic......more... Will Porn Migrate to .XXX?
Will Porn Migrate to .XXX?
Backers of the new adult web domain say it will help protect folks from stumbling into dicey online neigborhoods. But skeptics say cyberzoning is a sham and erotic sites will keep their .com storefronts.
Associated Press
3:01 p.m. June 12, 2005 PDT
NEW YORK -- A red-light ...more... U.S. Jacks Torrent Site
...or piracy, and will truly live up to what he has said, which is that he wants to prove that BitTorrent can be a powerful tool for distributing public-domain content, said Garfield.......more... Your Identity, Open to All
...lines. Our job is to operate in compliance with the law as it stands. And that is what we do.
Where does the data on ZabaSearch come from?
The public domain. Information collected by the government, and information that individuals put it out into the public domain. Court records, county records, st......more... File Sharing Has Supreme Moment
...r legal purposes. Artists use P2P to give away free music and promote their work and the Internet Archive relies on the software to distribute public domain works.
But the justices also brought up concerns about whether infringing content should be used as part of startup capital for a business. Fro......more... |