F***edcompany.com, the notorious, and apparently lucrative site that foretells the demise of dot-coms, succumbed to Ford’s threats concerning copyright infringement (after being shut down by their ISP for two days), and removed postings which were send-ups of several of the auto manufacturer’s popular advertising slogans.
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Daily Archives: August 27, 2002
ICANN Approves Lapsed Domain Names List
ICANN adopted a resolution on August 22 creating a waiting list service (WLS) for those who are interested in acquiring dot-com and dot-net domain names that have lapsed. Continue Reading
CRS Reports
Gallerywatch.com has announced that this September they will offer subscribers access to summaries of all, yes, all, published CRS Reports. The thousands of reports issued annually are not made available online, but there are resources that selectively provide the full-text of some reports. An excellent guide on this topic was written by Stephen Young. Continue Reading
Canada to Expand Internet Surveillance
The Canadian Department of Justice has released a consultation document to amend their Criminal Code, and grant law enforcement agencies broader access to data collected on Web subscribers by their respective ISPs (Patriot Act redux?). Continue Reading
