Domain owner info to remain public, for now (The News Journal)
LOS ANGELES -- A panel on Internet names voted last week to defer long-simmering questions on whether names, phone numbers and other private information of domain name owners should remain public in open, searchable databases called Whois....more...Google Rankings Influenced By Hosting, Domain Registrar and Geographic Location (Search Engine Journal)
One major fear around the web publisher community is that if you host too many sites on the same shared hosting account or server, Google may penalize you for hosting too many related sites; whether or not you share links back and forth with them. Hosting is not the only variable Google may look at [...]...more... Change of Leadership at ICANN as Cerf Makes Way for Intellectual Property Expert (CircleID)
Intellectual property and computer law barrister Peter Dengate-Thrush has been elected as new Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The former chairman of InternetNZ, the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry for New Zealand (.nz), and cofounder of the Association of Asian Pacific ccTLDs, succeeds the legendary Vinton Cerf ... ......more... Whois studies approved, privacy deferred (AP via Yahoo! News)
A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to defer long-simmering questions on whether names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners should remain public in open, searchable databases called Whois....more... ICANN Punts on WHOIS Privacy Proposal (Slashdot)
An anonymous reader writes "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has essentially put off consideration of a proposal that would have dissolved a requirement that domain name registrars collect and display personal information about people who register Web site names. Privacy activists said the WHOIS database has become a data-mining dream for marketers and spammers, to ......more... WHOIS stays as is for now (Computerworld Singapore)
Updated: 02 Nov 2007 A committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that manages the Internet domain name system, has decided to leave the WHOIS database as it is, at least for now....more... Avril Lavigne's Online War Against Perez Hilton: Fact Or (Probably) Fiction? (MTV Music Television)
Avril Lavigne had no idea an online impostor was waging a war against her blogging nemesis on PerezLavigne.com....more... Avril Lavigne's Online War Against Perez Hilton: Fact Or (Probably) Fiction? (MTV Asia)
In late September, with very little fanfare, an Avril Lavigne Web site was launched that struck back against the singer's longtime detractor, blogger Perez Hilton....more... ICANN Defers Ruling on Whois Privacy (NewsFactor)
A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to defer long-simmering questions on whether names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners should remain public in open, searchable databases called Whois. Instead, the committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, decided on further studies, which privacy advocates consider a stall tactic ......more... |