Small Internet service providers (ISPs) in the U.S. have been earning extra cash off clueless users through malicious DNS servers that adjust data inflight using third-party proxies. These servers secretly interrupt and redirect search queries or mistyped URLs -- usually brand names -- that are entered on a Web browser’s address bar.

The domain name system (DNS), as a core aspect of the Internet, is prone to three major risks according to an assessment report released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Large scale denial of service attacks, information disclosure and loss of privacy, and policy failure have been identified as the three risks in the report.

.DE (Germany) has once again become the No. 1 country code Top Level Domain. Read Article

Belgrade, March 30, 2010- The .YU domain stopped functioning at noon today, in accordance with the decision of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). The phasing out of the .YU domain, which is now history like all other aspects of the former Yugoslavia, was announced as early as March 2008. Read Article

The leading domain name registrars in the United States appear to be dragging their feet on the deployment of DNS Security Extensions, an emerging standard that prevents an insidious type of hacking attack where network traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or user knowing.