Free Broadband For India by 2009

India will have free broadband for all citizens by 2009. The move is designed to break the stranglehold of the NLD/ILD operators who keep international bandwidth rates in India being between two-to-five times higher than the global standard. With broadband connectivity at a speed of 2 MBps and powered by an extensive optical cable network the ultimate goal is boosting economic activity and shutting down the monopolys. Continue

ICANN Swats the Fly

After years of alleged mismanagement, system failures and invisable customer support

a court decision last month has sealed the fate of RegisterFly and allows Imminent

Termination of Accreditation.

http://www.registerflies.com/icann-organization/court-decision-allows-imminent-termination-of-regist.html

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UPDATE

This is an update on the termination of RegistrFly as an ICANN accredited registrar.

As was previously advised ICANN sent a notice of termination to RegisterFly effective 31 March 2007

Under the agreement RegisterFly can initiate arbitration challenging the termination.

RegisterFly has decided to do that and has notified ICANN.

That means the termination has to be stayed by at least an additional thirty days.

Consequently there will be no bulk transfer to Continue

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How to get them out

FAQs for RegisterFly customers

Over the last several weeks, ICANN has fielded thousands of inquiries from Registerfly customers by email and telephone. We have put together a list of 14 FAQs below as an attempt to answer some of the questions we’ve heard most. Continue

MarkMonitor Releases First Quarterly

Brandjacking Index

Anti-fraud vendor MarkMonitor has launched the Brandjacking Index, a quarterly report that will measure the effect online threats have on corporate brands. It will track activities like cybersquatting, false association, phishing, pay-per-click fraud, and domain kiting.

The Brandjacking Index tracks the top 25 brands from the 2006 Top 100 Interbrand study, plus additional Interbrand-ranked companies for business segment analysis.

Cybersquatting, the unauthorized use of a brand name in a domain, is the most frequent form of brand abuse, with more than 275,000 instances recorded in the month of March 2006.

MarkMonitor data also show that phishing incidents increased in the first quarter of 2007 by 104% from last year. Phishing attacks against financial services companies, including large banks and credit unions, represented 41% of all phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2007, compared with 29.4% in the first quarter of 2006.

Attacks on online auction brands fell below those against financial institutions for the first time this quarter, representing 38% of all attacks in the first quarter.

The phishing data MarkMonitor analyzes is based on feeds and fraud broadcasting from leading international internet service providers (ISPs), e-mail providers, and other alliance partners. Continue