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Web Hosting Sales and Promos - March 12 2010Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 4:14AMMarch 12, 2010 -- This week in web hosting saw a handful of sales and promotions, a couple of them tied to birthday celebrations, and including one promotion in the form of a course on website promotion for a hosting company’s customers.

Nominet plans release of super-short domain namesSaturday, March 13, 2010 @ 1:16AMA host of new, short domain names will be made available under the body responsible for domain names ending in .uk, Nominet. It plans to allow the registration of previously-banned domain names consisting of one or two characters.

Coal Center man arrested in child pornography investigationFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 3:39PMAn investigation into child pornography started by state police and the Internet Crimes Against Children task force in northeastern Pennsylvania has led to more than 40 arrests for child pornography, including one arrest in Coal Center, Washington County.

Concerns raised over Institute of Physics climate submissionFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 2:39AMInstitute faces criticism over its evidence to UK parliamentary inquiry on climate change

.ORG, The Public Interest Registry to Deploy Enhanced Domain Security in June 2010Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 11:50PMRESTON, VA--(Marketwire - 03/11/10) - . ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced plans to complete the final step to realizing full DNSSEC deployment in the .ORG registry by accepting second level signed .ORG zones beginning in June of 2010. This positions .ORG as the first generic top-level domain (TLD) to offer full DNSSEC deployment. All registrars can now plan to offer an ...

BluePhoenix Wins A One Million Dollar Natural/ADABAS Modernization Contract From A Leading Global Entertainment CompanyThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 10:13PMHERZELIYA, Israel----BluePhoenix Solutions , the leader in value-driven legacy modernization, today announced that it was awarded a one million dollar contract from a leading global entertainment company to modernize their Natural/ADABAS.

Sex.com goes on auction blockWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:49AMSex.com, a popular domain name on the internet, will be auctioned off in New York this month after its owners defaulted on debt payments.

A Little Flexibility from ICANN and We Might Just Get IDNs… for EveryoneMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 10:09PMNobody doubts that some time in the near future there will be Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in Chinese, Russian or Arabic scripts. The Chinese, Russian and Arabic-character-using worlds are large -- encompassing hundreds of millions of current and potential users. They are politically influential blocs, with the ability to demand action in international meetings. And perhaps most ...

UNESCO Director-General Receives Abu-Ghazaleh in ParisSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 8:51PMPARIS - March 7, 2010: UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova received on Wednesday at the UNESCO Headquarters Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman and CEO of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org), chairman of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA-GAID).

UK university websites hijacked; selling Viagra etc.Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 8:28PMA number of UK colleges and universities with the .ac.uk domain name have been hacked and now dish out fake drug stores. Can you protect your network from website breaches? by Zack Whittaker