August 2013 archive

FAQoTW: HELP! My WordPress Web Site has been Hacked AGAIN

A distraught wordpress hosting client contacted us this week because recently they’d been told their website was no longer working – instead, visitors to the site saw an image extolling some activist group support by a hacker. The client (prior contacting us) simply deleted the hacked post, and had spent a further 2 days working on their site, when …

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Swedish Registry (dotSE) takes over running .nu (dotNU) ccTLD

At the end of August 2013 the Swedish Registry IIS.SE will take over the running of the registry services for .nu from WorldNames. All currently registered .nu domain names will be managed by IIS who already operate the registry for .se New domain registrations, transfers, renewals and updates for .NU will continue to be available …

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NameSpace Collisions de-railing new gTLDS

August 5 2013 ICANN published the results of a study examining the consequences of ‘name space collisions’ between applied-for and non-delegated Top Level Domains. http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-05aug13-en.htm Details and the public comment information can be found at http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/name-collision-05aug13-en.htm The study divided strings into three categories based on risk: Low risk Uncalculated risk High risk Two TLDs come …

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