Monthly Archives: June 2014

Woohoo! We Finally Got A Data Retention Waiver!!

By |2014-06-17T17:03:09+01:00June 17th, 2014|Categories: Domains, icann, policy, Press Releases|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Last night without any fanfare ICANN quietly published an announcement on their website. For ICANN the announcement was [...]

When Whois Policy and Local Law Collide ..

By |2018-04-23T14:38:37+01:00June 13th, 2014|Categories: icann, policy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

I've written quite a bit about privacy and the implications that various rules and policies can have on [...]

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Irish Law Enforcement Pushing Website Blocking By ISPs

By |2023-04-26T10:32:45+01:00June 13th, 2014|Categories: Legal Issues, policy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Child abuse material is an issue. You can try to ignore it and if you're lucky enough you'll [...]

Is Your WordPress Site Participating In Pingback Distributed Denial of Service Attack?

By |2014-06-11T14:30:10+01:00June 11th, 2014|Categories: General, Hosting, php, Programming, WordPress|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Earlier this year, more than 162,000 unsuspecting legitimate WordPress websites were used for DDoS attacks within a few [...]