DOMAIN NAME NEWS
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CNNIC: China's Internet Will Be Short Of IP Addresses Soon
The Internet in China may soon run out. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, under the current allocation speed, China's IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of 830 more days and if no proper measures are taken by then, new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet.
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2008/09/23/7595-cnnic-chinas-internet-will-be-short-of-ip-addresses-soon/
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/0,39044908,62046479,00.htm
ICANN At Work On Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
Its no secret that the transfer policies of certain registrars can vary widely. Some will let you make a transfer internally or to another of your choice with relative ease once you have purchased a domain name. Others… aren’t quite so generous with their options and in some cases result in waiting periods of 60 days between the update of registrant information and transfer eligibility.
http://www.namesmash.com/?p=141
INTERNET-LAW
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Dissident websites crippled by Burma on anniversary of revolt
A year after e-mailed images of its brutal crackdown against democracy demonstrations were transmitted across the world, Burma has launched a ferocious “cyber-war” against dissidents who use the internet. ... The attacks were of the type known as distributed denial-of-service, which use automated programs to simulate thousands of users accessing the site simultaneously, overloading it.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4799375.ece
GoDaddy Files Patent for “Domain Name Hijack Protection”
GoDaddy has filed a patent for a system to protect against domain name theft. The patent lists GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons as the sole inventor and was filed last year, but was not published until this month.
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/09/23/godaddy-files-patent-for-domain-name-hijack-protection/
CYBER CRIME
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EU Agency investigates the potential to improve Internet security by protecting Domain Name Systems (DNS) [news release]
The EU Agency ENISA is investigating the use of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and other advanced technologies for improving the resilience of public communication networks.
http://enisa.europa.eu/pages/02_01_press_2008_09_16_dns_internet_security.html
Uncle Sam to fight cache poisoning with switch to DNSSEC
DNS security has been a hot topic this summer, ever since the news broke that security researcher Dan Kaminsky had discovered a new flaw in the system. That particular issue has since been patched, but the announcement refocused attention on the DNS protocol and its many security shortcomings. Now, the United States government has announced that all .gov domains will begin to transition to the secure DNS protocol known as DNSSEC, and must complete the adoption process by December 2009. .gov is the second gTLD to announce such a switch; .org announced it would convert to DNSSEC in late July of this year.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080922-gov-is-latest-gtld-to-hop-aboard-the-dnssec-bandwagon.html