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.Melbourne scores higher ranking than .Sydney in ICANN top-level domain lottery

The state of Victoria, iSelect, Open Universities Australia and Commonwealth Bank drew high slots in a lottery at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to determine the order in which ICANN will evaluate applications for new top-level domains.

By Adam Bender | 18 December, 2012 16:28

Tags: ICANN, top-level domain, priority, dot name, DNS, lottery, domain names, internet, ranking, TLD, gTLD
LulzSec tweets as News’ DNS servers go down

Just hours after claiming responsibility for hacking News International’s The Sun website and posting a fake story about Rupert Murdoch’s death, hacker group Lulz Security has tweeted that News International’s DNS servers are down denying access to some 1024 web addresses.

By Rodney Gedda | 19 July, 2011 11:59

Tags: DNS security, News Corporation, security, Lulzsec, DNS, Rupert Murdoch, hacking
Local .au DNSSEC scoping complete: auDA

Australia has moved a step closer to secure DNS services with the Australian .au Domain Administration (auDA) completing the assessment phase of the planned transition, but a final go-live data is yet to be decided.

By Rodney Gedda | 27 June, 2011 11:48

Tags: auDA, security, Bill Caelli, DNS, AusRegistry, domain names, DNSSEC
P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN

A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 December, 2010 01:46

Tags: ICANN, Networking, DNS, peer-to-peer, internet, P2P
Dot-org domains can now be protected by DNSSEC

On Wednesday, .org became the first generic top-level domain to offer its customers improved security using DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions).

By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 June, 2010 02:56

Tags: ICANN, security, DNS, domain names, DNSSEC

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