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Over 1 million .com, .net domain names in India

June 10, 2010 Reply

India has registered a total of 1.037 million .com and .net domain names, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) by VeriSign.

The first quarter of 2010 saw over 193 million domain name registrations across all the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs) — an increase of 11 million domain name registrations as compared to the first quarter of 2009. New .com and .net registrations were added at an average of 2.7 million per month in the first quarter of 2010 for a total of 8.1 million new registrations in the quarter, reveal the findings of the first quarter of 2010 DNIB.

The report also spotlights a new study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), that gauges the commercial impact of the internet, in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the first .com domain name registration.

It estimates that the annual global economic benefits of the commercial Internet equals $1.5 trillion — a figure that eclipses the global sales of medicine, investment in renewable energy, and government investment in R&D, combined.

ITIF also estimates that, assuming ecommerce continues to grow just half as fast as it grew between 2005 and 2010, then by 2020, it will add $3.8 trillion to the global economy.

Although online commerce is becoming commonplace worldwide, it’s still more popular in some countries than others.

In assessing 30 nations, ITIF found Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States lead the rest of the world in shopping, selling, and doing business online.

Source : http://www.verisign.com/in/press/2010/dnib-release.html
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/over-1-mn-com-net-domain-names-in-india/397640/

Is IPv6 in your future? By Irwin Lazar

June 5, 2010 Reply

As I write this I’m returning from this year’s FutureNet conference in Boston where much of the discussion centered around the twin challenges of dealing with depletion of the IPv4 address space and the growing concern that IPv6 adoption will exacerbate scalability issues within Internet routers. While there was much disagreement about the best way to address these issues, the majority of speakers agreed that despite longer-term route scalability concerns, a migration to IPv6, whether we like or not, is in our immediate future.

Why? Quite simply because the immediate concern among Internet architects is that we’re running out of addresses. Depending on whose estimate you believe, we’ve got another one to two years before Internet service providers have no more addresses to assign, meaning that if you want a new block to support a new facility, or your provider wants to expand its mobile offerings, you, and they, will find that they lack the IPv4 addresses to meet demand.

There are a few options for short-term fixes. One is to create a market for excess IPv4 address space to enable those who have extra space and who today have no incentive to give to sell it to whoever needs it. Another is to increase the use of network address translation to hide private networks behind small numbers of shared public addresses. Both of these create additional concerns: who would manage the market to ensure that large entities don’t gobble up all available address space? And, there is the potential for carrier-grade NAT to disrupt the Internet architecture that’s based on smart end-points and a dumb core.

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First Ever Outbound Spam Study Finds Service Providers Struggling to Deal with Spam Sent from Their Own Networks

June 3, 2010 Reply

Sixty-eight percent of service providers say outbound spam costs them up to $100,000 per year, according to a new research study by industry analyst firm Osterman Research and Commtouch(R) /

In the first ever comprehensive report on how outgoing messaging abuse affects service providers, the Commtouch-Osterman study surveyed ISPs, hosting providers, managed service providers and Internet portals around the world, asking specific questions regarding spam and scam email messages generated from within their networks. Exploitation of service providers’ networks to send unsolicited email can lead to customer loss, operational cost increases, brand damage and even potential lawsuits.

“The results of our research pinpoint a growing challenge in the industry that service providers need to protect against spammers who aim to abuse their networks,” said Michael Osterman, president and founder of Osterman Research. “Outbound spam is a rising concern, and it is essential that service providers deal with the issue in order to protect their businesses.”

Some key findings from the research include:

— 68 percent of service providers say outbound spam costs them up to $100,000 per year; 4 percent said it is costing them more than $250,000 per year. Costs due to outbound spam include such things as IT helpdesk and anti-abuse team time.

— Almost 40 percent of respondents have had their IP addresses listed on Real Time Blackhole Lists (RBLs) in the past 12 months alone. RBLs are published lists of the addresses of computers or networks known to be sending out spam. A service provider may be “blacklisted” as a result of outbound spam, and thus have its customers’ legitimate email blocked by other service providers.

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25 years of .com domain names

June 2, 2010 Reply

On March 15, 1985, a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name.

Although Symbolics.com didn’t spark an instant gold rush, the event planted the first seed of a transformation that has changed the world into a Web-fueled digital river of news, commerce and social interaction.

Exactly 25 years later, life B.C – Before .Com – is already a distant memory, especially in the tech-centric Bay Area.

“Can you remember what it was like before the Internet, before .com?” said Mark McLaughlin, president and chief executive officer of VeriSign Inc. of Mountain View. “What about the next 25 years? Who can imagine that?”

VeriSign, the Internet security vendor that administers the .com registry, is hosting an event in Washington on Tuesday celebrating the milestone, with former President Bill Clinton scheduled to deliver a keynote address. And on May 26 in San Francisco City Hall, VeriSign will honor Internet innovators at a “25 Years of .com Gala” hosted by comedian Dana Carvey.

In a relatively short time, the dot-com revolution has “woven itself into every nook and cranny of the commercial world,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, a Washington think tank that studies the social impacts of the Internet. “It usually takes technologies a lot longer to insinuate themselves into the basic rhythms of people’s lives.”

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InterNet Now More Global with New Domain Names

June 1, 2010 Reply

For the first time in history of the internet, addresses without Latin characters have been launched. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are among the first countries to get the upcoming “country codes” in Arabic script. It will also be given for Chinese, Thai and Tamil users to use the internet in their own language.

Rod Beckstrom, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), President termed this a historic move and mentioned that a lot of behind the scenes work is responsible for this measure.

About 20 countries have already sought approval for international domains from Icann. China was the first country to develop systems that made it possible to enter a web address in Chinese. It noted that there is still some time before non-Latin scripts can be properly integrated into Internet infrastructure and cannot work on all the computers.

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