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Missing dot drops Sweden off the Internet
Oct. 15, 2009
What was essentially a typo last week resulted in the temporary disappearance from the Internet of almost a million Web sites in Sweden -- every address with a .se top-level down name.

Domain-name abuse proliferates; rogue registrars turn a blind eye
Sep. 14, 2009
Domain names are a key part of botnet and phishing operations, and cyber-criminals are plundering domain-name registrars around the world to get them.

How registrars tackle domain name abuse
Sep. 14, 2009
Some rogue registrars are happy to turn a blind eye to domain-name abuse; others are fighting back.

Watching the registrars
Jan. 11, 2008
Network Solutions has once again shown that it can't be trusted in its role as a domain name registrar.

ICANN: New domains coming in 2010
Jun. 24, 2009
Internet policymakers are forging ahead with a controversial plan to introduce hundreds of generic top-level domains -- such as .nyc, .sport and .food -- next year.

Data Domain introduces data shredding
May. 18, 2009
Lots is going on in data retention and destruction this week as Data Domain introduced a shredding feature as part of its Retention Lock software.

Blocking Conficker domain names: Will it work?
Mar. 31, 2009
One important effort to try and stop the Conficker worm from being activated by its creators on April 1 and beyond is blocking the domain names that it may use for command-and-control or downloading malware. But will it ...

Verizon LTE trials in Boston, Seattle; ICANN says policy killing 'domain tasting' - Network ...
Aug. 13, 2009
Verizon LTE trials in Boston, Seattle; ICANN says policy killing 'domain tasting'

Black Hat set to expose new attacks
Jul. 27, 2009
The Black Hat conference unfolds in Las Vegas this week with an agenda set to expose exploits as varied as tapping power outlets to capture keyboard signals and closing up holes in the use of the secure protocol that ...

Web site monitors and PowerPoint timers
Jul. 23, 2009
Mark Gibbs discusses a really cheap, er, cost-effective Web and service monitoring service and then goes looking for an onscreen timer for PowerPoint. What an exotic life he leads.

EMC's Hauck: $2.1B bet on Data Domain will pay off
Jul. 21, 2009
Earlier this month, EMC signed a $2.1 billion agreement to acquire data deduplication specialist Data Domain, declaring victory over rival Network Appliance in a bidding war to acquire the company. The deal was ...

HP storage scales up with Ibrix buy
Jul. 17, 2009
HP's storage buy targets file serving for extreme-scale-out, cloud and high-performance computing environments.

Will new top-level domains promote cybersquatting?
Jul. 16, 2009
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is hosting two meetings this week – one in New York City and the other in London — to discuss the trademark and cybersecurity issues surrounding its plan ...

EMC distances rival NetApp
Jul. 09, 2009
EMC has scored another victory over storage rival NetApp by purchasing Data Domain, a merger which widens the technological gap between the companies in the fast-growing data de-duplication market.

IBM software 'masks' sensitive info; EMC wins Data Domain bidding war
Jul. 09, 2009
IBM software 'masks' sensitive info; EMC wins Data Domain bidding war

NetApp quits bidding war in face of EMC opposition
Jul. 08, 2009
EMC has apparently stared down NetApp and won the bidding war over de-duplication and backup vendor Data Domain. But NetApp will walk away from the failed negotiations with a cool $57 million.

Symantec de-duplication strategy targets data growth, virtual machines
Jul. 07, 2009
Symantec is expanding its de-duplication capabilities across several backup products slated to be released this year and in 2010.

NetApp's buy of Data Domain moves closer, even as EMC raises offer to $2.1B
Jul. 06, 2009
NetApp has cleared a regulatory hurdle in its attempt to acquire storage vendor Data Domain, but rival EMC is still pursuing an acquisition of the same company with a new offer of $2.1 billion.

Board opens way for new top-level domains
Jun. 26, 2008
ICANN will press ahead with plans to introduce new top-level domains, including some so-called Internationalized Domain Names written in Chinese and Arabic scripts, its board decided unanimously Thursday.

Clock is ticking on .me domain names
May. 13, 2008
Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro. Clock is ticking on .me ...

Registered in the dot U.S. of A
Sep. 04, 2000
In real estate, they say there are three key attributes of a property: location, location, location. But on the Web, apparently you guys don't want to use what should be a great virtual location - the top-level domain ...

Vultures circle over Data Domain
Jun. 17, 2009
Not a lot of news last week, but anticipating this week will be full of the gyrations between EMC and NetApp over the body of Data Domain. Already the carrion are circling ready to pick off the remainders – a law firm ...

Data Domain board rejects EMC's $1.8B offer, recommends NetApp merger
Jun. 15, 2009
The EMC-NetApp turf battle over de-duplication vendor Data Domain could be coming to a close.

EMC/NetApp recap on Data Domain
Jun. 10, 2009
Unless the EMC-NetApp-Data Domain changes in the past five days, here's what happened in NetApp's efforts to acquire the deduplication vendor.

EMC's Tucci makes his case to Data Domain employees
Jun. 09, 2009
Joe Tucci's latest move in the EMC/NetApp bidding war for storage vendor Data Domain is an open letter to employees.