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Meet the Irishman whose key decisions in the Eighties led to the web as we know it today

Dennis Jennings has been appointed to the board of ICANN, and the Irish Independent has a profile on Dennis, talking about his background and the background to the internet in Ireland:

When people think of the founding fathers of the internet, they think of inventors such as Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf who created TCP/IP protocols that the internet runs on, as well as creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee.

The federal government pulled the plug on the domain name used by the State of California on Tuesday, setting into motion a chain of events that threatened to grind government business to a standstill within the state says an IDG News Service article in ComputerWorld.

State IT staffers were able to fix the problem within a few hours, narrowly averting disaster, but the situation shed light on what observers are calling a shocking weakness in the state’s IT infrastructure. (more…)

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Bodog was stripped of its domain names in courts in Nevada and Washington as part of patent disputes, as well as being ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines plus demanding the Antigua-based Ayre testify in the United States in October about his company’s assets according to this article in Canadian Business. (more…)

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Dark Reading have an article on distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks and says there is one underway somewhere on the Internet at any time of the day. “When DDOSes do occur, they are done with much greater purpose than they used to be,” says Rodney Joffe, senior vice president and senior technologist for Neustar. “They are usually to obscure what’s [really] happening in the background.” (more…)

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“ICANN staff has published a draft report on dispute resolution procedures for IGO (inter-governmental organization) domain names” writes George Kirikos. “This proposal has deep flaws and should be rejected by the community, as it does not have the balance and protection of registrant rights present in the existing UDRP.”

George believes “that in the proposed policy, the domain registrant (respondent) has much weaker protection compared to the UDRP because the complainant need only prove a single element is present.” (more…)

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