Posted November 13, 2012, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
Prominent semi-private torrent tracker Demonoid is once again showing signs of life, although the website itself remains a lifeless cadaver. What this means for Demonoid is anyone's guess, but during the site's 2009 sabbatical, the website returned just weeks after its…
Posted November 12, 2012, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
After Kim Dotcom was denied the possibility of resurrecting MegaUpload as Me.ga, the controversial figure blasted the U.S. and Vivendi for their opposing views and global reach. Dotcom added that Mega was well-prepared for this contingency however, with a number of…
Posted May 25, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
Google has begun providing a warning to visitors who appear to be infected with DNSChanger, a malware which attempts to redirect users to various websites by modifying their DNS settings. The notification is a highly visible alert which tells the…
Posted January 12, 2012, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
In the wake of .xxx domains becoming reality, ICANN, the entity which governs Internet domain names, has begun accepting applicants today for custom top-level domains. Instead of being restricted to .com, .net, .info and the like, companies now have the…
Posted December 6, 2011, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
After much ado between the adult entertainment industry, ICM Registry and Internet domain governing body ICANN, .xxx domains finally started going live this Tuesday. Even early this morning, the number of live .xxx addresses had hit six digits and that…
Posted November 30, 2011, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
Chanel, a luxury goods company, has gone after roughly 700 websites thought to be selling counterfeit, Chanel-branded goods. As a result, a federal judge in Nevada has given the company authority to seize domains and has ordered search engines and…
Posted June 21, 2011, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Hot on the heels of their controversial approval of .xxx top-level domains back in March, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has now voted to allow the creation of new generic website domain suffixes so that companies…
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