February Digest: The Most Important Events on Info.NIC
We offer our readers the February edition of a digest of the most interesting events in the domain and IT industry, published on Info.NIC.
News
The Internet Association of Ukraine will reduce UA-IX 10 Gbps tariffs.
The Board of the Ukrainian Internet Association (UIA) has decided to significantly reduce tariffs for UA-IX services, effective February 14, 2011. According to this decision, the cost of UA-IX services for the first month will not depend on speed.
Email users in the .РФ domain zone received their first spam.
Kaspersky Lab published a report on spam activity for January 2011. Since December, the share of spam in email traffic has increased by only 0.5%, reaching 77.6%.
As of February 1, there were 284.8 million websites online.
Netcraft, an internet monitoring company, published a monthly report showing that 284.8 million websites were online as of February 1. Among the software web servers that serve websites, Apache saw the largest increase in its database.
The Prosecutor General's Office is investigating domains in the .рф zone.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office held an interdepartmental meeting regarding the registration of domain names in the .РФ zone and the actions of the registrar RU-CENTER, which held closed auctions for the domains. A criminal case will likely be opened after this meeting.
NL domain celebrates its silver anniversary
Dutch Minister Maxime Verhagen held the opening ceremony for the new website www.de25jaarvan.nl. The site was launched to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Dutch national domain, NL. The website is planned to be a collection of stories from Dutch people about how the internet has impacted their lives and the life of their country over the past 25 years.
Holocaust museum websites should not be hosted on Polish domains.
Polish authorities are demanding that museums located on the grounds of former Nazi concentration camps stop using the .pl domain ending in their internet addresses.
Single-letter email addresses with the H.UA domain can be purchased for $950 on E-bay.
Fine Web representatives announced that the world's shortest email addresses are now available for purchase on eBay. The promotion was timed to coincide with the Chinese New Year. Today, Hua (华) is one of the most positive characters in China, meaning "China" and "Chinese civilization."
There are already 11,095 domains registered in the UZ zone.
The Uzbek Agency for Communications and Information Technology held a meeting dedicated to the industry's performance, the implementation and development of information and communication technologies in 2010, and the identification of prospects and areas for further activity in 2011. The meeting was chaired by the UzACI board.
US authorities mistakenly removed 84,000 websites.
As part of a program to cleanse the internet of websites containing illegal content, the US government mistakenly deleted a domain that hosted over 80,000 third-level domains containing user-generated content. After the error was discovered, the content of the websites was restored within days.
Microsoft proposes issuing security certificates to computers
In 2010, Scott Charney, vice president of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, proposed developing ways to combat viruses similar to those that exist in everyday life.
Mitsubishi accuses LG Mobile of patent infringement
Mitshubishi Electric has filed a lawsuit against the Japanese subsidiary of South Korean LG Electronics, demanding 380 million yen in damages. Mitshubishi accuses the company of infringing patents on smartphones imported into Japan. Mitsubishi claims LG violated the communications technologies used in the phones.
80% of browsers contain vulnerable components
Wolfgang Kandeck, chief security officer at Qualys, said eight out of ten web browsers are vulnerable to exploit attacks.
Sex.com entered the Guinness Book of World Records
The domain sex.com is officially recognized as the most expensive domain name on the Internet and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
The .rf zone is starting to catch up with the .ru zone.
In the near future, the new .рф domain will be able to overtake the old .ru. This is evidenced by the increasing number of websites in this zone.
Most spam is sent from the yahoo.com domain.
Entensys and Commtouch jointly prepared a detailed report outlining modern internet threats for the fourth quarter of last year. The companies revealed that the largest amount of spam originates from the yahoo.com domain. They also touched on the Blogspot worm, which is spreading through Facebook.
The number of domain name disputes has increased worldwide
Domain Name Wire conducted a study to determine the number of domain disputes. The study was based on information provided by two major arbitration centers that handle domain disputes. According to the study, the number of domain disputes resolved under the Uniform Domain Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) increased by 25% compared to the previous year.
Articles
62,000 domains in the .РФ zone may be cancelled.
The Internet Coordination Center (IC) conducted an investigation, which revealed that numerous domain registrars in the .РФ zone had reserved domain names for themselves with the intention of reselling them at closed auctions.
Hostmaster summarized the results of the domain market in Ukraine.
Hostmaster has summarized the development of the Ukrainian domain name market. According to the company, in February 2010, the number of domains registered in .ua exceeded half a million, and by the end of 2010, the 200,000th name was delegated in the .com.ua domain.
RU-CENTER will defend its clients' interests in court.
RU-CENTER published a statement on its official website stating that Regional Network Information Center (RNIC) JSC disagrees with the findings of the Coordination Center for TLD RU commission, which stated that the company's actions during the first days of open registration could be characterized as abuse. As a reminder, RNIC is a trademark of RU-CENTER.
End of an era: IPv4 – goodbye, IPv6 – hello!
February 3, 2011, will go down in the history of the global IT industry as the beginning of the end. On this day, in accordance with the RIPE-436 document, the Internet Assignment Authority (IANA), the numbering organization, released the last five /8 IP address blocks for distribution to regional internet registries (RIRs) to consumers.
"A pair of earrings for every sister." New domain zones
2011 could truly be the year of dozens of new top-level domains. ICANN is simplifying application rules and speeding up the review process, the evolving internet is increasingly demanding high-quality and understandable website names, the cybersquatter frenzy is gradually becoming tiresome, and the number of those who have begun to understand that to win at the domain casino, it's better to own one is also constantly growing.
In January 2011, the Ukrainian domain market began to actively
Hostmaster has released statistics on registrations in Ukrainian domain zones for the first month of 2011. Despite the abundance of holidays, the month started off quite actively. Nearly 5,000 domains were registered in January. This is less than in December, but generally in line with the 2010 average.
The largest domain auction has published its report for 2010.
SEDO, a leading domain name trading platform, published a consolidated report on its operations for 2010, along with an analysis of trends in the secondary domain market. The company's annual revenue exceeded $100 million for the first time, reaching $101 million.
The rules for registering domains in the .RU and .РФ zones need to be changed.
After reviewing the findings of an independent commission established to identify violations of the rules during the launch of open registration in the .РФ domain, the Coordination Center Council decided that the registration rules in the .RU and .РФ domain zones require significant changes.
Ru-Center has completed the auction of domains in the .рф zone.
Alexey Lesnikov, CEO of Ru-Center, announced that the company has completed the auction of second-level domain names in the .РФ zone. Approximately 24,000 domain names in the .РФ zone were sold during the auctions. The auctions included domains for which more than one bidder had applied. On average, each domain cost approximately 15,000 rubles.
US Government Cloud Computing Strategy Released
The White House has released a document called the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, which defines cloud computing, outlines the benefits of the technology, including implementation examples, and offers recommendations for implementing cloud computing across government.
The US government is lobbying for a 'veto' in ICANN.
The US Government Oversight Committee (GAC) wants to gain veto power over the registration of new gTLDs. The committee explains this by citing concerns about the potential for so-called "disputed" gTLDs to be registered.
2010 was marked by a fight against piracy in the RuNet.
February 18th marked a year since the closure of the torrents.ru website. A year ago, the registrar Ru-Center revoked the delegation of the torrents.ru domain. The prosecutor's office issued this ruling in a case involving the distribution of counterfeit copies of AutoCAD.
