ICANN, VeriSign Reach Accord
...mes got money for directing traffic to those sites critics termed the service an abuse of power.
VeriSign controls the computers with master lists of domain name suffixes, such as .com. It also runs the core directories for the two most popular suffixes, .com and .net. As a result, internet computer......more...Google Techs, Webmasters Mingle
...nd-the-scenes twists and turns that can cause websites to rise and fall in Google's search results. For the millions of websites without a well-known domain name, those rankings can mean the difference between success or failure because Google's search engine drives so much of the internet's traffic......more... Google Squashes 'Typosquatting'
...oogle.com and gooigle.com.
After former Stanford University graduate students incorporated the search engine in September 1998, Google registered its domain name a year later. Gridasov registered his websites in December 2000 and January 2001, according to Google's complaint.
In a decision made earl......more... Jeeves Gives the Straight Answer
...o the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to reverse a federal judge's ruling that he violated federal trademark law.
A federal judge ruled the domain name was nearly identical to Falwell's website falwell.com and could confuse web surfers -- despite a disclaimer noting it is not affiliated wi......more... China's Filters Strong, Subtle
...ntent proactively under threat of penalties.
Filtering tends to be triggered by the appearance of certain keywords, rather than a visit to a specific domain name or numeric internet address. The keyword-based filters also allow blogs to keep people from completing posts containing banned topics.
You......more... Watchdogs Sniff Out Terror Sites
...s the hosting company and urges the host to remove the site from its servers. If successful, which is often, Internet Haganah sometimes purchases the domain name so the address is never used again.
Surprisingly, much of Internet Haganah's work is focused on the United States, where the cost of buyin......more... Googling the Bottom Line
...orensic detectives to clean up the mess Traffic-Power made, she said.
That required about 80 hours of work to track down all of the link farms, phony domain names, search engine spider attraction pages and other nefarious tactics she says the company used to cheat the system. At about $300 an hour, ......more... The Magic of Googlevision
... on Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer.
Internet cognoscenti have speculated about a Google browser since the company registered the Gbrowser.com domain and hired several Internet Explorer engineers last year.
The Firefox browser has been downloaded more than 20 million times and currently has a......more... Porn Blogs Manipulate Google
... for porn-site advertising is that some parental, business and library Web-filtering systems look less at the content of a site than at its top-level domain name, or where it's hosted, both d'Addario and Marlow said.
Most of these parental control systems depend on IP addresses as the basis for bann......more... |