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The University Of Queensland Forgot To Renew Its Domain Name
I remember being a university student. Saturdays on campus were pretty regular. Finishing assessments, meeting up for group work, cramming for a Monday morning exam or just going by the student hub for some free internet to browse Reddit on. Presumably, students at the University of Queensland were doing all of these things when all of the university’s official sites and email addresses stopped working on Saturday. The cause? The university had forgotten to renew its own domain name. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu–
US Government Says It Can Seize Any .Com Domain
For months, the US Government has issued court orders in order to seize and shut down sites — even when the domain names are registered abroad. Now it has made its position on domains perfectly clear: if it ends in .com, .net, .cc, .tv and .name, we can seize it.
Why I’ll Never Trust A Human With My Data Again
On Valentine’s Day, I may have an unexpected present: My websites might all go dark, and a decade’s worth of data may vanish. My host’s domain registration is set to expire tomorrow, and the man behind it has disappeared.
Fix iTunes And Other Slowdowns By Ditching Third-Party DNS Servers
BitTorrent-Based Domains Could Make Sites Invincible Against Seizure
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.
Google Continues Eating The Internet With Google Public DNS
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]
