Simplify Hosting Expands Services for Customers (TopHosts.com) November 2, 2006 ? (TopHosts News Brief) ? Simplify Hosting announced an expansion of their services, giving customers more value and convenience. Recently, the company launched Simplify Domains, a new service to provide affordable domain names....more...Register.com Hires New CEO (Web Host Directory) Register.com, a leading provider of global domain name registration and Internet services, today announced the appointment of Larry Kutscher, as Chief Executive Officer of Register.com....more... Simplify Hosting Expands Services (Web Host Directory) Simplify Hosting is now expanding services to provide more value to customers by including more resources in each of its webhosting plans, and by improving customer convenience with the addition of domain name registration....more... Domain Name Resale Market a Haven for Phishers? (CircleID) In a recent article at TechWeb, the following observations were made: "Internet addresses that appeal to identity thieves eager to rip off consumers are being posted by major domain resellers... Finnish-based F-Secure has identified more than 30 registered domain names for resale that would be of interest only to the legitimate holder of the trademark or to phishers..." more... ...more... Rhetorical Questions on IDN TLD Approaches (CircleID) With the IGF underway, there's a lot of discussion surrounding Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). There has been lots of great progress in IDN technology with IE7 and Firefox browsers now fully IDN-Aware, strong IDN registrations and websites behind them. Now that many of the hurdles to implementation have been addressed to where the technology is either currently available to most internet ...more... Assault on State Censorship at the IGF (CircleID) Knee-jerk UN haters in the US are fond of pointing horrified fingers at the presence of China, Syria and other authoritarian states whenever global governance is mentioned. See for example Declan McCullough's slanted piece in CNET . They might be surprised to learn that the UN Internet Governance Forum has opened the opportunity for a major assault on Internet blocking and filtering, and put ...more... Building your own Web-based business takes only few steps (Tucson Citizen) Although the Internet is a treasure trove of information, education and entertainment, many people think of online businesses only when they hear the word Internet....more... Are Click Fraud Numbers Being Exaggerated by the Traditional Media? (CircleID) As you certainly noticed, a lot of traditional media has recently been focusing on click fraud. Is it as big of an issue as it is made out to be, compared to traditional advertising? Unfortunately Eytan Elbaz of Google will not answer this question with statistics, but he lets us know that Google has the problem under control. Here are some notes based on the Click Fraud Session at the Targeted ...more... Vint in International Herald Tribune on IDNs (CircleID) According to this article in IHT , those who want deployment of IDNs now are "political gambits". Cerf said that the technical side is not yet ready and thus the deployment of IDNs should be done very carefully. I agree to the technical aspects. However, the next question is of course: "when will it be ready for deployment?"... more... ...more... |