A Patent for SiteFinder-Like Resolution (Featured Blog)
I saw an interesting news item that broke Monday courtesy of DomainNameNews and SlashDot that hasn't been broadly covered yet. I'm surprised no one has posted on this yet on CircleID, so here goes....
View ArticleRevision3 and Media Defender (Featured Blog)
Lots of coverage in the last two days about a Memorial Day weekend attack that took down the servers of Revision3, an Internet video network. This story has a lot of ingredients -- P2P maneuvering,...
View ArticleWhy Not an Interim Step Until DNSSEC is Ready? (Featured Blog)
I'm interested in CircleID community's take on NeuStar's recent announcement of Cache Defender. While only effective for domains the company is authoritative for, that does cover a large number of big...
View ArticleGoogle and Verizon: Interesting Open Internet Bedfellows (Featured Blog)
The debate around Network Neutrality is sometimes simplified as carriers against content providers, the owners of networks against the businesses that have grown due to Internet connectivity. So it was...
View ArticleCyber Threats Yes, But Is It Cyber War? (Featured Blog)
Last night Intelligence Squared and Neustar conducted a fascinating, Oxford style debate on whether the threat of cyber war has been exaggerated. A packed house at the Newseum in Washington, DC heard...
View ArticlePutting Cloud Providers to the Test - New Bitcurrent/Webmetrics Report...
Recently Bitcurrent conducted a cloud performance test commissioned by my client Webmetrics, a business unit of Neustar. Bitcurrent describes itself as part blog, part analyst firm and part resource...
View ArticleThe Dark Internet (Featured Blog)
I consult on communication issues for Neustar, an Internet infrastructure company. As most CircleIDers know, Neustar works behind the scenes to ensure the smooth operation of many critical systems like...
View ArticleThe Internet Portal Strategy, Circa 2011 (Featured Blog)
Ev Ehrlich over at High Tech Forum wrote an excellent piece yesterday about some recent comments by Google's Eric Schmidt. According to Schmidt there are four megafirms right now executing well on what...
View ArticleInterview: Antony Van Couvering on the New TLD Opportunity (Featured Blog)
I recently caught up with a former colleague Antony Van Couvering. Many here on CircleID probably know him, he's been active in the domain name business since the late 1990's. With the new Top-Level...
View ArticleSupercookie Debate Offers a Transparent Opportunity (Featured Blog)
Recent articles in the press have outlined how sites including MSN and Hulu are now using an advanced version of the old cookie file to track user behavior. These "supercookies" are very hard to detect...
View ArticleTaking the Anti-SOPA Message to the People (Featured Blog)
It was fascinating last week to read coverage of congressional hearings around the SOPA bill, or Stop Online Privacy Act. The bill has strong support from the Motion Picture Association of America, the...
View ArticleHolding Google to a Higher Standard in Search (Featured Blog)
Danny Sullivan has been the go-to guy for understanding the world of search for over 15 years. This week he published a really good story on Google Plus Your World. A group of engineers have launched a...
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