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A Year Ago: Hijacked Web Addresses Show Weak Link In Net
News Web.net, an email and information site for 3,500 charities and volunteer groups, and holiday website Bali.com had their domain names re-registered to people in Hong Kong and Madrid respectively. When a site is registered with Network Solutions, the...
[June 9, 2001, 6:28]
Hijacked Web Addresses Show Weak Link In Net
News Web.net, an email and information site for 3,500 charities and volunteer groups, and holiday website Bali.com had their domain names re-registered to people in Hong Kong and Madrid respectively. When a site is registered with Network Solutions, the...
[June 9, 2000, 15:49]
.Movie Coming To A Web Site Near You
News The California-based company is betting that the new Web address extension will help people find official movie sites easier and faster than memorising cumbersome Web addresses. The company said that unlike other New.net domain names, which are...
[October 24, 2001, 11:28]
A Web Site That Cares How You Feel
Blog But it is a genuine innovation, and one that directly addresses one of the greatest unstated problems in our online world: you can't automate humanity. No, I haven't heard of them either, nor the Wufoo site it references.
[March 27, 2008, 1:13]
A Year Ago: Network Solutions Seizes Web Directory
News The government-selected company that assigns most of the world's Internet addresses made a surprise move to steer customers of an important Web directory to its private commercial site, and the US government wants to know why
[March 24, 2000, 6:19]
Icann Asks VeriSign To Suspend Web Redirect
News The agency that oversees Internet domain names has asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects Web surfers to its own site when they seek to access unassigned Web addresses, rather than return an error message.
[September 22, 2003, 8:35]
Celebrity Web Site Under Fire For Privacy Breaches
News Controversial UK Web site www.192.com stands accused of endangering top Premiership football players and their families by publishing their addresses and even maps of their homes. The site lists the names and addresses of more than 45 million...
[February 9, 2001, 14:39]
Palm Pours Cold Water On Fan-site Row
News Some Web site owners had seen signs that Palm would allow hobbyist sites -- an important source of grassroots support for the company -- to continue using "Palm" in their Web addresses. For several years Palm has been pressing commercial Web sites...
[September 28, 2001, 17:12]
US Treasury Breaks Privacy Promise
News All comments posted on our Web site will show the name of the commenter, but will not show street addresses, telephone numbers, or email addresses. The unusually large number of comments received.has made it difficult to remove all street addresses...
[January 9, 2004, 8:50]
Internet Address Scam Shut Down
News However, the FTC said the site failed to notify consumers that the domain names have not been approved to function the same way as addresses ending in .com. The Federal Trade Commission said on Monday that it has busted a company that preyed on...
[March 12, 2002, 9:56]
Domain Monopoly's Days Are Numbered
News The company had drawn fire last month when it eliminated a Web site called Internic.net that provided information about already registered Web site addresses. The five, to be followed in a few months by many more, will be the guinea pigs for new...
[April 13, 1999, 7:24]
10 Simple Ways To Improve Website Design
News Archive URLs: All too often, websites change URLs (web addresses) of pages when they are outdated and move off the main page, into archives. The following list of common web design mistakes addresses the needs of commercial websites, but it can be...
[October 18, 2006, 16:10]
Domain Names Get Rock 'n' Roll With .mu
News SamsDirect .MU hopes to register 100,000 Web addresses in its first 12 months. Aside from .mu, his company has registered 400,000 addresses with the .cc TLD, which was originally the Cocos Islands' domain.
[December 7, 2000, 9:23]
Firefox Tool Counters Man-in-the-middle Attacks
News Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates web addresses into numerical IP addresses, said Dave Andersen, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who was...
[August 27, 2008, 10:57]
Political Cybersquatting Scores A Win
News In a victory for cybersquatters and others who snatch up domain names containing personal monikers, a dispute-resolution board has refused to turn over Web addresses containing the words "Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
[April 30, 2002, 10:11]
Girl In Harry Potter Web Address Battle
News Last month the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organisation ruled Time Warner as the sole owner of more than 100 Potter-related Web addresses. In the past, owners of domain names associated with Star Trek, McDonald's or other trademarks...
[January 22, 2001, 13:51]
Apple Fixes Serious OS X Flaws
News The Apple security update addresses those flaws, which affect the Safari Web browser and Apple Mail client. The set of patches addresses a variety of security flaws, including several that could let an attacker gain control over a computer running...
[March 2, 2006, 7:50]
MPs Turn To Web For Votes
News He said that between a quarter and a third of his constituency work is now carried out online, and that he too has been collecting email addresses from his web site, www.brianwhite.org.uk. The Conservative MP added that, by encouraging constituents...
[October 30, 2001, 13:06]
Microsoft To Plug URL-spoofing Hole
News In December, Secunia alerted the security community to an IE bug that would let hackers display false Web addresses. And on Wednesday, the company posted details of an alleged flaw that could let Web surfers be tricked into downloading malicious...
[January 30, 2004, 7:40]
Trojan Horse Exploits Explorer Flaw
News The QHosts program changes the Internet addresses of the computers at which the infected PC will look to resolve unknown Web sites and domain names. A malicious program, dubbed QHosts, infects PCs using a recent flaw in Microsoft's Internet...
[October 3, 2003, 8:45]
