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Will Google challenge VeriSign for operation of the dot-com registry?->

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GeorgeK
GeorgeK writes "Google has noted that their free Public DNS service is handing an average of 70 billion requests/day, which tops VeriSign's latest numbers for dot-com DNS requests.

Since Google does nothing without thought, is this demonstration by them that they can handle a greater DNS load than VeriSign a subtle sign that they might challenge for operation of the dot-com registry?

Certainly Google could be a formidable competitor if ICANN was to open the .com registry to a public tender process. A public tender would lead to lower prices for .com domains at the wholesale level, from $7.85 to perhaps below $2/yr.

Would you want Google to take over operation of the .com registry from VeriSign?"
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Privacy

Apple Bug Lets You Spy on Stranger's iPhone->

Submitted by skywolf86
skywolf86 writes "From the article:
The story is simple: a friend's son had some trouble with his iPhone 4. Being an awesome mom, our friend took it into the Apple Store when her kid was at school. School. Not college or grad school, but I'm-under-18 school. When she got it back, her kid's phone was in perfect working order—but it had also become a portal into another man's private life. No matter how many times we've reset the phone and entered our friend's information, every incoming and outgoing iMessage meant for Wiz shows up on her child's phone. His phone had become her son's phone—and there was an iMessage bevy of stuff you wouldn't want your child to see."
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Microsoft

Microsoft risking more EU problems?

Submitted by whoever57
whoever57 writes "While doing some work on a couple of Windows 7 PCs in the United Kingdom, I (after discussion with the owners) tried to add Google as the default search engine for IE. I went through the normal procedure to do this and was taken to a web page of search providers. Missing from the list? Google! I saw the same behavior on 2 machines and another person reported that he had also seen this while installing and setting up Windows 7. In all cases, the ISP was BT. This may be limited to the UK only and conceivably, it could be limited to BT. Is this type of action likely to lead to more wrath from the EU commission?"
Google

Nginx overtakes Microsoft as No. 2 Web server->

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tsamsoniw
tsamsoniw writes "With financial backing from the likes of Michael Dell and other venture capitalists, open source upstart Nginx has edged out Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) to hold the title of second-most widely used Web server among all active websites. What's more, according to Netcraft's January 2012 Web Server Survey, Nginx over the past month has gained market share among all websites, whereas competitors Apache, Microsoft, and Google each lost share."
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Piracy

GoDaddy continues to bleed customers over SOPA-> 1

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bdking writes "Despite a transparent reversal of policy regarding its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act, domain registrar GoDaddy continues to lose customers to a reddit-inspired boycott. That GoDaddy was the No. 1 target of SOPA opponents — despite much larger companies also supporting the legislation — speaks to the Achilles heel of most Internet companies."
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Businesses

Israeli Spyware Sold to Iran 1

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Bloomberg reports that Israeli trade, customs and defense officials say they didn't know that systems for performing “deep- packet inspection” into Internet traffic, sold under the brand name NetEnforcer, had gone to a country whose leaders have called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Allot Communications Ltd., an Israel-based firm which reported $57 million in sales last year, sold its systems to a Randers, a Denmark-based technology distributor where workers at that company, RanTek A/S, repackaged the gear and shipped it to Iran. The sales skirted a strict Israeli ban that prohibits “trading with the enemy,” including any shipments that reach Iran, Syria and Lebanon. Although Allot officials say they had no knowledge of their equipment going to Iran and are looking into RanTek’s sales, three former sales employees for Allot say it was well known inside the Israeli company that the equipment was headed for Iran. ““Israel considers Iran quite possibly its greatest threat, and so the Israeli government would come down very strong against any company that exported to Iran,” says Ira Hoffman. “Iran is also considered by the U.S. as one of its most strategic threats.” Israeli lawmaker Nachman Shai has called for a parliamentary investigation and the country’s Defense Ministry has begun to examine the report."
Censorship

GoDaddy Backs SOPA-> 1

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redletterdave
redletterdave writes "Website hosting company GoDaddy has officially voiced its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Bill in 2012, which is designed to thwart movie and music piracy on the Internet by empowering copyright holders to effectively shut down websites or online services found with infringing material. If passed, the U.S. government could blacklist any website it deems in violation of copyright, which could range from a few posts in a Web forum to a few links sent in an e-mail. GoDaddy supports SOPA for "protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. business and the American public from the harm that necessarily flows from the purchase of counterfeit products." Yet, of the 142 companies that support the SOPA bill, GoDaddy is the only Internet company on that list."
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