Submission + - ICANN Approves .XXX (pcworld.com)
lothos writes: "Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided today."
Submission Summary: 0 pending, 8 declined, 3 accepted (11 total, 27.27% accepted)
Submission + - China censors 5000 porn sites, 5000 arrested (domaincensorship.com)
lothos writes: China has shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year and arrested 5,000 people as it steps up a campaign against obscene material. Beijing has run a highly publicized drive against lewd online content which it claims is overwhelming the country’s internet and mobile phones and threatening the emotional health of children. Critics have accused the Chinese government of deepening the crackdown, launched last December, and said censorship had blocked many sites with politically sensitive or even user-generated content.
Submission + - .org now signed for DNSSEC (pir.org)
lothos writes: "As of today, 06/02/2009, the Public Interest Registry (www.pir.org) has signed the tld .org for DNSSEC. .ORG, The Public Interest Registry is dedicated to the security and stability of the internet. In our effort to bolster Internet security, we are implementing Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) within the .ORG Top Level Domain. DNSSEC is designed to protect Internet servers from domain name system attacks, such as DNS cache poisoning by malicious users. It is a set of DNS extensions which provide 3 basic functions:
* Data Origin Authentication — assures that data is received from the authorized DNS server; can protect from impersonation attacks
* Data Integrity — assures that data received matches data on the origin DNS server, and is not modified during transit; protects from man-in-the-middle type pollution attacks.
* Authenticated Denial of Existence — assures that a "Non-existent" response is valid."
* Data Origin Authentication — assures that data is received from the authorized DNS server; can protect from impersonation attacks
* Data Integrity — assures that data received matches data on the origin DNS server, and is not modified during transit; protects from man-in-the-middle type pollution attacks.
* Authenticated Denial of Existence — assures that a "Non-existent" response is valid."
