Anybody can get in that database and get all kinds of information about the domain-name holder.
This manages the internet's domain-name system of addresses, such as .com, and the underlying internet protocol numbers.
More and more people now use domain-name shortening services such as bit.ly and econ.st (The Economist's such offering).
"It requires care and feeding, " adds Jothan Frakes, a domain-name consultant in Seattle.
And it has found a clever way to extend the official domain-name system.
"It's a very serious threat, " says Jeffrey Williams, an IETF member and a spokesman for INEGroup, which represents 98, 000 domain-name holders.
Internet engineers also complain that RRP uses the Secure Sockets Layer protocol, which doesn't provide an audit trail for resolving domain-name disputes.
Until last fall, Network Solutions had been the exclusive provider of domain-name registration services under a contract it had with the U.S. Commerce Department.
Competition among registries would benefit VeriSign, which dominates the domain-name business.
The 53-year-old chief executive recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal about the changing domain-name landscape and why the company has toned down its racy marketing.
He said they all plan to attend the conference in Prague to meet with their domain-name rivals, several of which have already offered to pay Donuts to withdraw its applications for specific names.
He and domain-name speculators like him have been building entire businesses around ideas for new right-of-the-dot names, and in many cases they have lined up backers to help them cover application and other costs.
Ken Silva, the security chief at VeriSign, which runs big chunks of the internet's domain-name system, advocates defences at the core of the network to tackle malicious data-packets before they reach their target.
The youngest start-up was domain-name manager Donuts Inc.
WSJ: Looking for the 'Next Big Thing'? Ranking the Top 50 Start-Ups
Mike Smith, director of the customer-security incident response team at Akamai, says such attacks are possible because of improperly configured domain-name servers the servers that correlate website addresses, such as wsj.com, into the numerical addresses used by servers.
While the new regime ends NSI's monopoly over the award of top-level domain names, the Commission is concerned that highly restrictive provisions in its licensing agreements with companies wanting to enter the market for domain-name registration will discourage competition.
In addition, if the newest ICANN bylaw proposal goes through as is, individual countries will be left to deal completely with their own TLD administration process, instead of being part of the global domain-name process that many hoped would come from the dissolution of IANA and the creation of ICANN, IATLD said in its statement.
While WIPO's report mainly focused on abuses in registering domain names -- with name "scalpers" often purchasing choice domain names and then selling them at a high price -- ICANN said that it needs to develop a more comprehensive policy regarding all intellectual property issues.
My recommendation is to start your company with a free or very low-cost domain name, with a strong preference for dot-com.
"We have been forced to change our internet domain name - one can understand they are being mindful of the accelerating changes that are coming about with the internet, " said Mr Jones.
Let me propose a path few take: find an under-monetized domain name and start a business on it.
"We get emails almost every day from people wanting to buy" a dot-eco domain name, says Mr. Malthouse.
Britain's budget airline Easyjet was angered by the recent decision to leave the domain name easy-jet.com with its holder, a small printer cartridge retailer.
CNN: Technology - 'Cybersquatters:' Invading big names' domains
While brand-based and generic TLDs are fascinating in terms of their potential to shake-up domain name giants and revolutionize online branding, only a handful of them will possess staying power.
The secret of building a business on a Tier-1 domain name is that a great domain name (short, memorable, meaningful, .com, etc.) is worth millions if and only if a real business can monetize it. ff Venture Capital has numerous companies which have acquired or launched with blue-chip domain names, e.g.
All that said, how many more domain-registration companies can you name without a Google search?
In less than a year, 18, 000 have agreed to set up a home page, domain name and e-mail system.
There was also support for one of the added security features proposed, which was that .uk sites would all be DNSSEC-signed (Domain Name System Security Extensions), making them harder to hack.
In one of the most famous cases, actress Julia Roberts was granted the rights to juliaroberts.com -- even though her domain name raider still occupies the site.
CNN: Technology - 'Cybersquatters:' Invading big names' domains
应用推荐