Web Infrastructure

With IPv4 addresses set to run out by 2011, Internet administrators have been pushing for a switch to the new IPv6 system. Unfortunately, very few data centers have adopted the new system because of past investments made in IPv4 and the cost to upgrade. This is why some industry experts …

ICANN is no newcomer to criticism and flak. Today, it had to defend itself from another attack: excess travel spending. This year, ICANN has budgeted £7.68 ($12.48 million USD) out of its £33.46 ($54.37 million USD) budget for travel. For an organization that holds only three international meetings a year, …

In a parody of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, an American TV show where families in need receive free home renovations, a few happy-go-lucky folks from Microsoft redesign an outdated server room. Though the Pentium 200 chips mentioned in the video are definitely outdated, I’m one of those people who likes …

Seattle residents experienced more than a little summer heat today when a small fire took a downtown data center offline. A number of services were affected by the outage, including the Port of Seattle’s mail servers, a local hospital’s IT system, as well as thousands of websites. Some local residents …

As the list of virtual bad guys grows and the front has extended to a global scale, ICANN has been granted new powers that will allow it to track down and neutralize nefarious domain registrars. From cybersquatting to providing spammers with safe havens, they might sound like a band of …

The National Security Administration has announced plans to build a new data center up to 1-million square feet in size in Fort Williams, Utah. The total cost of the project will be £978 million ($1.6 billion USD). The megalopolis will be built in two phases. The first, which is set …

At the Sydney ICANN meeting this week, new CEO Rod Beckstrom faced a number of tough questions about the future of the Internet. Discussing the future of ICANN governance, he stated he did not have a “fixed form opinion,” but that he was “optimistic” that a resolution would go through. …

Not to be deterred by a little litigation and jail time, the founders of The Pirate Bay plan to launch a new video sharing site. The new potential YouTube competitor will feature videos without copyright restrictions, the company claims. YouTube has long been the subject of copyright disputes with numerous …

Mark your calendars. On September 30- exactly three months from today- the Joint Project Agreement between ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce will expire. Peter Thrush, the Chairman of ICANN’s Board of Directors, stated earlier this month that the California organisation has no intention of renewing this agreement. Besides …

In an effort to encourage greater adoption of the .eu top-level domain (TLD), the European Commission will start allowing non-latin characters to be used in domain registration. In the past, only “a to z” and “0 to 9” characters were allowed. European states that will benefit greatly from this move …