In response to the recent flurry of aggressive takedowns against P2P and piracy-related websites, a group of programmers is working on a new, decentralised system that would make domains untouchable. The Dot-P2P project is partially powered, appropriately enough, by BitTorrent. More »
It feels like Google is slowly becoming the internet. First, their twice-as-fast HTTP replacement, SPDY, and now with Google Public DNS, which promises faster DNS lookups (and tons of data and cash for Google). [Google] More »
We didn’t doubt that they would, but the ICANN has officially approved non-Latin character domain names. The pleasant surprise is that the system and guidelines for these internationalised domain names (IDNs) look pretty solid, even if hiccups are expected. More »
The ICANN, the folks who set some guidelines that make the Internet go ’round, are in the final stages of passing a proposal to introduce non-Latin characters to web addresses. Finally, there’ll be some non-porn-based multiculturalism on the Internet. More »
Bigup to everyone who recommended the venerable DynDNS free service last weekend for making it even easier to connect to your home computer from anywhere. Here’s how to do it.
