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Cybersecurity experts who held lucrative Pentagon and homeland security contracts and high-level security clearances are under investigation for potentially abusing their government privileges to aid a 2016 Clinton campaign plot to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia and trigger an FBI investigation of him and his campaign, according to several sources familiar with the work of Special Counsel John Durham. Durham is investigating whether they were involved in a scheme to misuse sensitive, nonpublic Internet data, which they had access to through their government contracts, to dredge up derogatory information on Trump on behalf of the Clinton campaign in 2016...

Action Follows Last Month’s Seizure of 92 IRGC DomainsSAN FRANCISCO – The United States has seized 27 domain names that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unlawfully used to further a global covert influence campaign.As described in the seizure documents, all 27 domains were being used in violation of U.S. sanctions targeting both the Government of Iran and the IRGC. Four of the domains purported to be genuine news outlets but were actually controlled by the IRGC and targeted audiences in the United States, to covertly influence United States policy and public opinion, in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration...

The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard. The alert, which is also available online, shows that foreign government hackers are still successfully hacking and stealing data from US government’s servers, their activities going unnoticed for years. This comes months after the US government revealed that a group of hackers, widely believed to be working for the Chinese government, had for...

Carly Fiorina, who just jumped into the race for the presidency Monday, has spent the week coolly sitting for interviews and cleverly parrying jabs from reporters and critics. It is obvious that after losing her Senate race in 2010 to Sen. Barbara Boxer, Fiorina did some real hard work on improving her skills as a candidate, and it paid off. Nonetheless, the week was marred by a rather glaring mistake, especially for a tech-centric candidate like the former Hewlett-Packard CEO. Fiorina failed to register the domain carlyfiorina.org, and a critic promptly took it over and launched it as an attack...

On Friday, Dr. Ron Paul filed an international UDRP complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a part of the United Nations (UN), over the domains RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org. Fans of Dr. Ron Paul currently own the domains RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org. The complaint states that the agency is to take the two domain names from Ron Paul’s supporters without compensation and give those domains to the recently retired doctor. Dr. Paul had been a noted advocate of the United States leaving the UN in the past.

On January 15, 2012, VeriSign®, the registry for .COM and .NET, will increase prices – .COM will go up 7%, and .NET by 10%.

The Marketplace radio show from American Public Media spoke to Special Agent James Hayes from Homeland Security, who was apparently in charge of the "raids" (if you can call them that) that involved the seizing of domain names under the legally questionable theory that linking to infringing material is, by itself, criminal copyright infringement. I've yet to find any legal expert who seems to believe that the law actually says this anywhere. In the interview, John Moe asked Agent Hayes a very simple question: given that these domains were all seized based solely on the fact that they link...

Is the recently released domain extension for the country of Mexico (.MX) worth investing in or is it just another effort to make money by the domain registrars?

Sorry for the vanity, but I figure someone who is more "geek" than I am may be willing to share some pointers: I have some domains registered through lvcs.net (all within the last 60 days). They were a company I discovered four or five years ago and have bought all my domains through them, since I've never had any trouble with them. Some domains I let lapse a long time ago, as I didn't need them any longer. If you want to auction off a domain you own on Sedo, how does one first transfer the domains from lvcs.net to...

Shedding Light on the Protein Big Bang Theory March 13, 2009 — The precise three-dimensional structure of a typical protein molecule is so complex, its origin would seem hopeless by chance. What if evolutionary biologists were to discover a whole host of proteins literally exploded into existence at the beginning of complex life? We can find out what they would think by looking at an article on the “protein big bang” found on Astrobiology Magazine...

Want a cheap blog with a funny sounding name? You can buy a domain name and point it to your blog. (I do it with PalinLove.com. It requires little or no Internet skills. I love checking funny word combinations and seeing if they are available as domains. It's how I found plasticpie.com. Tonight I checked, and ShameOnHillary.com is available to purchase. If you want to buy it, or another one, and point it to your blog, I am happy to give you any assistance you need.

Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan By Ben Worthen Word Count: 668 | Companies Featured in This Article: eBay The organization that oversees Internet addresses on Thursday approved a proposal to create an unlimited number of so-called top-level domains -- the familiar suffixes like ".com" at the end of Web addresses. Under the plan, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will allow organizations to apply for any top-level domain. Businesses, for example, could use brand names such as ".ibm" or ".ebay" in their Web addresses. Cities could sign up for names like ".nyc" or ".berlin." It...

See for example this thread first. Again, adult topics and situations, so clear the kids out of the room. And for those who are not computer geeks, ICANN is the "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers". They have something to do with defining and assigning internet domains and suchforth. ICANN has announced it rejects The web domain called .XXX (If you surf with one hand I'll bet you understand) ...but you still could type "Google" and "Sex"

It may surprise some people, but I agree with Parsons on this one. And I would go even further. I am a Conservative who believes that we should both welcome and fight FOR the .XXX domain designations. What? Yes, you heard me right. Now hear me out. I believe we should use the tactics of the Liberals – who always love to tax and regulate everything – and make ALL porn sites drop their current .COM domains and go to the .XXX url exclusively.

Bob Parsons is an interesting, entrepreneurial kind of a guy. He got in on the front end of the technology curve in the early 1990s when Parsons Technology made a name for itself in Evangelical circles by being among the first to market Bible software. His QuickVerse software brought the Scriptures to Christian computer users’ fingertips. Parsons has more recently made an even bigger name for himself in secular circles by creating a racy TV ad that ran nationwide during the 2005 Superbowl. That spoofish spot featured a buxom blond who was allegedly testifying before a Congressional committee on censorship,...

The 9th circuit says: it’s OK for others to use your domain and/or trademark to say “You suck!” We plan on talking about how the 9th circuit's recent decision to allow people to register other’s domain names (even if they are trademarked!) with the word “Sucks” appended to it (i.e. GoDaddySucks.com) could affect your business and you personally. We'll tell you what you can and should do about it.

There has been a decision made by bureaucrats of a Federal agency that takes away your right to privacy as guaranteed by the United States Constitution This decision was unilaterally made by the National Telecommunications and Information Association (“NTIA”) www.ntia.doc.gov without hearings that would determine the impact on those affected, and delivered without notice — in short, the NTIA decision was made without due process of any kind. This is exactly how our government is not supposed to work. The effect of this decision is to disallow new private domain name registrations on .US domain names. In addition, if you...

Noticed this when performing a keyword search for "Free Republic": Welcome to the home for Right Wing Nuts "Internet headquarters for archconservatives and reactionaires ... Free Republic. Home | Forum | Log In | Register ... Already a Member? Log into your Free Republic account. Click here. ..." Is this something new, this redirect to FR from this URL? I haven't noticed it before, and apologies if this is already common knowledge here.

Iraq, its domain and the 'terrorist-funding' owner By Kieren McCarthy Posted: 09/04/2003 at 11:54 GMT The war against Iraq may be drawing to a close but the war over its Internet future is just beginning. As with the overthrow of the Afghanistan regime by US forces, it is widely thought that the removal of Saddam Hussein from power will see the Middle Eastern country catch up with the rest of the world in terms of Internet infrastructure and use. Currently, there is limited, expensive and state-controlled Internet use in Iraq, beamed via satellite since sanctions on the country have...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet's key oversight body approved a timetable Friday for expanding the online addressing system with an eye toward allowing domain names made up entirely of non-English characters. Though Internet users may now register names in Chinese, Arabic and dozens of other scripts, domain names currently must end with ".com" or another English string. Domain names are key to finding Web sites and routing e-mail. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, during its regular meeting in the Arabic-speaking Tunisia, called for studies by next September on technical, economic, trademark and other considerations related to...