ICANN—the organization that looks after the names and domains of the Internet—has suffered a serious phishing attack that's compromised its data.
The Guardian: Proposal recommends role played by government be replaced by ICANN itself, an oversight committee and a review process involving many interested parties
Motherboard
Control over the internet is slipping away from the US government and American corporations in favour of a more global approach, and the corporations don’t like how they’re being treated so far.
Governments and corporations are upset they're losing domination over something?!? Well, no one could have seen that coming...
ZDNet
On February 4, you'll be able to get Internet domain names with such new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) names as .CHEAP, .NINJA, or .SEXY. So, yes, if you really wanted to, you could have such domain names as dirt.cheap, joethe.ninja or imvery.sexy. Ack!
GTLDs are part of the Domain Name System (DNS). They're the last label of fully qualified domain names such as .com, .edu, and .gov. These are used to give human-readable addresses to the Internet's cryptic IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. So far, so good.
HOLY JEEBUS! That's just obscene. why not look to old unused/abandoned .com addresses and take them back.
I still don't understand how no one puts money into their internet security.