Domain Name Rights Coalition

On Saturday, November 29, 2003 a post on the GNSO mailing list indicated that the .name registry website had been hacked. As reported by George Kirikos, "The .name registry's main website www.nic.name has been hacked, as of Saturday evening in North America. According to Netcraft, they're running Linux. They must not have kept up to date with all security updates, or someone cracked a password. Hopefully offsite backups were made, to ensure data integrity." Although, due to... [CircleID]

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Two months after the airline admitted coughing up passenger records to a defense contractor, the Army finally says it's investigating the matter. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]

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An article in the Miami Herald brings up an interesting question. When a person is intentionally diverting web traffic through use of domain names in order to protest a practice he finds wrong, where are the limits?

While it is clear that speech rights should always be paramount on the Internet, we have law that makes it a felony to divert unsuspecting children to pornographic websites. Would it work the same way if an unsuspecting person (who might be a child) who is attempting to send email to Carrie-Anne Moss, finds herself face to face with graphic photos of aborted fetuses?

What do the DNRC readers think? Please email us at admin at netpolicy dot com and let us know.

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In a move that will likely encourage further discrimination against any company that doesn't happen to be named 'Verisign,' ICANN has been given the green light to continue

A federal judge denies a preliminary injunction filed against the organization that oversees the Internet's domain name hierarchy and address space. [CNET News.com]

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