Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast's homepage with a shout-out to other hackers.

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Three hackers have been indicted for redirecting the Comcast.net Web site to a page of their own making in 2008.

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ICANN has opened their new fast track process for "countries and territories that use languages based on scripts other than Latin" to get domain names that identify the country or territory in its own language.

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In an interesting move several members of the ICANN community formed an "informal" Working Group to discuss the concept of "expressions of interest" in new Top-Level Domains (TLDs). This all happened very quickly, which is more or less the opposite to how most ICANN related activities progress.

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The ICANN Board, at its October 2009 annual meeting in Seoul, passed a resolution directing staff to prepare an analysis regarding the feasibility of ICANN soliciting Expressions of Interests (EOIs) from prospective applicants for new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs).

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The main reason for this is the peculiarities of the rules for non-Latinic domains. The regional Cyrillic domain .ukr is unlikely to be registered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet Invest Ltd. President Oleksandr Olshansky considers.

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Microsoft is creating technology to give businesses more fine-grained control over access to data stored in the company's upcoming SQL Azure database cloud service, a senior engineer said today. Code-named Vidalia, the technology will provide "trustworthy data collaboration for highly sensitive business data across disparate trust domains," said Microsoft technical fellow Dave Campbell in a talk ...

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In 2003 I first began speaking on international SEO at conferences and seminars and have lost count of the number of times I’ve heard the question, “Is it better to use local domains or dot coms with a folder or sub-domain for my site?”

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Egypt says it has begun registration for the first Arabic language Internet domain. The move is part of efforts to let users of non-Latin script have better access to the Web.

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A new protocol will guarantee the origin and integrity of Domain Name System data for the .com and .net domains, company says.

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.бг is expected to be Bulgaria's national Internet domain in Cyrillic. Bulgaria's Ministry of Transport, IT, and Communications is starting a procedure for registering Internet domains in Cyrillic.

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Bulgaria's Ministry of Transport, IT, and Communications is starting a procedure for registering Internet domains in Cyrillic. This has been announced Sunday by the Transport Minister, Alexander Tsvetkov.

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typosquatting writes to mention that the largest domain dispute case since the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) was enacted ten years ago has been decided. The decision saw 1,017 cyber-squatting domains turned over to ConsumerInfo.com, owner of FreeCreditReport.com. The full decision can be read via the National Arbitration Forum website. "It would seem that this decision ...

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DUBAI - Shaikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, has reiterated the importance of Dubai Air Show in reflecting the progress attained by the UAE in all domains under the wise leadership of the President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

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NotSoMini Provides Four Customizable Minisite Packages: ‘Nano’, ‘Mini’, ‘Maxi’ and ‘eBay EPN Pro’. These high quality, yet affordable sites offer better returns for domainers than simple parking, and give site owners a real chance to have their domains rank and stay in the search engines.

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turtleshadow writes "Brian Krebs of Security Fix Blog analyzed the McColo Spamming one year later and asks an interesting question: 'How does one renovate and recoup the lost trust to the slums of the Internet and reclaim back all the domains and IP's that have been blacklisted?' Indeed, the economic benefits abound when a huge swath of illegal and annoying activity ceases — but given the basic ...

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New York--The assets that once comprised now-bankrupt Finlay Enterprises Inc.--from its customer lists and Web site domains to its office chairs--were broken off and bid on in pieces at an auction held on Tuesday in New York City, court documents show.

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As Stephen MR Covey (son of the Covey you know) said “Trust is the one thing that touches everything.” If you think about it, trust is so often relegated to the domains of PR or CSR. It’s never seen as critical to the development of the bottom line.

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11 November 2009 Damascus - We encourage Swiss businessmen and companies to carry out development projects in Syria in different domains, said Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Abdullah al-Dardari on Wednesday.

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As the new year approaches, AITDomains is allowing "domainers" to take advantage of its low prices to allow instant branding, increased search engine traffic, increased traffic to their websites. AITDomains is targeting the bulk registration and Domaining market segment with ultra low pricing and provides robust domains management tools to allow consumers to invest in premium domains for their ...

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Security researchers have taken down a major spam offender, though the dip in spam levels may be only temporary. Members of the FireEye security team coordinated an attack on the Mega-D botnet (also known as Ozdok) last week by preemptively registering domains meant for the botnet's command and control channels (CnCs) and shutting down others. Spam coming from Mega-D stopped almost instantly ...

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Down and out since Sunday Many Windows Home Server customers have been unable to access Microsoft's Windows Live Custom Domains service since the weekend.… What is your recession sales strategy?

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EDINBURGH, Scotland, November 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Travel search site Skyscanner (http://www.Skyscanner.net) is continuing its drive into international markets with the launch of its ancillary travel comparison services across all 24 of its top level domains, including the Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese Skyscanner sites.

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