Domain Name News Articles

21-Apr-2008

• 'Expert: Domain Name Redirects Open Door for Hackers (TechNewsWorld.com)
Internet service providers that serve advertising when a user requests a Web page that doesn't exist are exposing their users to a giant security breach, according to security researcher Dan Kaminsky. The vulnerability resulting from the practice, which is an increasingly common way for ISPs to make money from users' typos, was identified last week on Earthlink by Kaminsky.
• 'Back in the USSR: Soviet Internet domain name resists death (The Oakland Press)
MOSCOW (AP) -- The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace. Sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising -- registrations increased 45 percent this year alone.
• 'Soviet Internet domain name resists death (KATU Portland)
The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace. Sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising.
• 'Back in the USSR: Soviet Internet domain name resists death (PhysOrg)
(AP) -- The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace. Sixteen years after the superpower's collapse, Web sites ending in the Soviet ".su" domain name have been rising - registrations increased 45 percent this year alone. Bloggers, entrepreneurs and die-hard communists are all part of a small but growing online community ...