Microsoft, Yahoo Approve China Blog Registry
Complying with local laws, even ones that could jeopardize the liberty of Chinese bloggers, has been the mantra of tech companies doing business in China.Reporters Without Borders is already hopping mad at both Yahoo and Microsoft for acceding to Chinese government requirements on censorship, and in Yahoo’s case, its role in the prosecution of three [...]
China Chills On Blogger Registration
A surprising turn of events could mean the Chinese government will not require bloggers to provide their real names to a central registry.The potential for damaging the rapidly growing Internet industry may have influenced Beijing into backing off a long-desired plan to match bloggers’ online identities with the real people behind them. People’s Daily Online [...]
ARIN Board Advises Migration To IPv6
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) board of trustees passed a resolution recommending that the Internet technical community migrate a new version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6 will be needed to allow continued growth of the Internet. The current IP version 4 (Ipv4) has over four billion unique IP addresses, which is not enough [...]
Utah Lawmakers Take Blinders Off, Earplugs Out
A resounding "DOI!" came springing out of the Utah legislature late last week as lawmakers acknowledged they should have done a little background work, or at least listened to all the squalling, before they passed the Trademark Protection Act. (For the uninitiated, "doi" is a juvenile, circa third grade insult, usually spoken with an lengthy [...]
Domain Name Prices To Rise (And Keep Rising?)
This won’t cause the end of the world, and it probably won’t even drive anyone out of business, but Verisign is set to raise domain prices by 7-10%. More ominous is the possibility that the prices will, from this point on, continue to increase on a yearly basis. Oh, well – at least the company [...]
Google.de Slips Its Leash
Google users in Germany got a surprise on Tuesday morning when, for a brief period, the search engine company seemed to have lost ownership of its home page. Google is now back in charge of Google.de, though, and all is well with the search engine company’s world. For a while, though, the natural order of [...]
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