The idea behind the related schemes is to change the Domain Name System database so that email servers can publish what IP addresses are associated with them. Spammers typically cover their tracks by hacking into unprotected email servers, or open...
The usual trick, according to the OFT, is to call local businesses and tell them that someone else is trying to register their domain name and their only hope of saving it from the other URL-hungry firm is to sign up with the dodgy domain-name...
A 16 year-old Canadian student is holding Apple Computer to ransom over a domain name that was registered following the launch of the iMac. In response, Apple lawyers have written to the Calgary student, accusing him of cyberpiracy and asking him...
Newly independent Iraq has asked for control of its .iq domain name. It took Afghanistan only six months to gain control of its .af domain name; the application by Iraq's National Communications and Media Commission is said to have taken a few tips...
The Washington Post Co.publisher of the eponymous newspaper, neglected to pay the $19 annual registration fee for its corporate domain name, an oversight that caused the company's internal email system to crash for part of the day, a company...
A European Web publisher is planning to set up a .sex domain name for Web sites. As a domain name registrar, he would charge adult sites for the privilege of having a .sex address. Iana, under contract to the US government, is not accepting domain...
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