As .EU approaches 3.4 million active domain names, EURid is celebrating its 5th birthday and has released a special birthday edition of their Identity magazine. In this issue, EURid celebrates turning five by offering SMEs a practical, low-cost high-return idea to keep customers focused on their businesses

Last week’s meeting in Brussels between ICANN and their Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) regarding the new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) was a like a car “wreck” writes Milton Mueller on the Internet Governance blog.

The WikiLeaks website, currently online via a Swiss domain name (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — One of the interesting sort of incidental outcomes of the intense scrutiny around WikiLeaks,since the site released the package of secret US diplomatic communications known as cables last Sunday, has been the fact that web hosting, along with a list of other Internet services that includes DNS and online payment processing, has made its way squarely into the public eye more so than with any other big story in recent memory.

Move Over, Android: HTC Tablet Rumor Puts Spotlight on Googles Chrome It was only a matter of time before the mythical Google-HTC tablet began to materialize. But unlike a host of other new mobile devices and tablet PCs, the HTC tablet will reportedly be based on Google’s other operating system: Chrome. According to a report from Download Squad Wednesday, the HTC tablet will be available through Verizon Wireless in late November– Black Friday, to be exact

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Adobe: We know we’re hackers’ favorite target Adobe knows there’s a target on its back. But it’s OK with that. “We’re in the security spotlight right now,” said Brad Arkin, Adobe’s director for product security and privacy, in an interview this week

Product Watch: New DNS Security Service Augments DNSSEC Domain Name System (DNS) security is in the spotlight these days, with the last of the Internet’s root servers going DNSSEC this week. And security services provider Internet Identity also launched a new DNS security monitoring service that can work alongside DNSSEC.