Think back for a moment to the early days of the Internet when domain name registrations were free. Imagine how rich you would be if you had thought to reserve “internet.com”, “business.com”, or any two or three letter domain name for that matter. Twitter attempts to limit reservations by requiring a unique email address for each sign-up. That is circumvented by using the Google “plus sign” email trick. Simply append something (your new Twitter ID for instance) to your Google email address like stiennon+itharvest@gmail.com. Gmail treats that as stiennon@gmail.com but Twitter thinks it is unique. It turns out you can just make up any old email address and Twitter will allow you to create a new ID.
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The Flaw at the Heart of the Internet
The security researcher was using his knowledge of Internet infrastructure to come up with a better way to stream videos to users.
Kaminsky’s expertise is in the Internet’s domain name system (DNS), the protocol responsible for matching websites’ URLs with the numeric addresses of the servers that host them.
It was only later, after talking casually about the idea with a friend, that Kaminsky realized his “trick” could completely break the security of the domain name system and, therefore, of the Internet itself.
But the danger is even worse: protocols such as those used to deliver e-mail or for secure communications over the Internet ultimately rely on DNS. A creative attacker could use Kaminsky’s technique to intercept sensitive e-mail, or to create forged versions of the certificates that ensure secure transactions between users and banking websites.
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Cybersquatting:Domain Names of Famous Authors and Other Celebreties
The administrative panel of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has issued numerous decisions addressing cases in which famous authors or celebrities have sought to prevent other individuals or entities from using their names or derivatives, or their names within registered domain names, a practice generally known as cybersquatting.
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‘MLS’ name dispute lands in court
Marc Rasmussen, a Realtor in Sarasota, Fla., who in 2003 registered TheSarasotaMLS.com as a domain name for his real estate Web site, has filed the legal complaint in an effort to keep that Web address, which he says is important to his business.
The Sarasota Association of Realtors owns the SarasotaMLS.com Web site. Allegations of trademark infringement, trademark dilution and cybersquatting.”
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Kentucky Court Affirms Seizure of Poker Domain Names
A Kentucky Circuit Court judge has dismissed all objections brought by representatives of as many as 141 Internet domain names subject to seizure and forfeiture to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the result of an order issued by the same court late last month.
In his decision to affirm the forfeiture, Judge Wingate dismissed serious counterpoints about Kentucky’s jurisdictional reach while defining within his opinion that an Internet domain name is a “device” used in gambling, thereby making it illegal under Kentucky law.
A more serious challenge under Judge Wingate’s consideration was the matter of Kentucky’s jurisdictional reach, in seizing domain names that are neither housed nor serviced in Kentucky, yet remain generally accessible via the Internet.
The decision by Judge Wingate gives the affected domains 30 days to institute geoblocking to be removed from the forfeiture portion of the case, with a final hearing set for November 17th, 2008.
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