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Re-opening the Internet?

Two recent news stories suggest that the importance of open Internet connectivity is gaining increasing international recognition. The UN’s Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression has published a report stressing the importance both of making internet infrastructure available to as much of the world’s population […]

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Domains with Criminal Purpose

Questions about my last posting on Nominet’s DNS domain suspension discussions, have got me thinking a bit more about my idea of “domains registered for a criminal purpose”. My suggestion is that these should be the only domains that a top-level registry can remove on its own, rather than asking for the decision to be […]

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Phishing trends

Some interesting analysis was presented by Pat Cain at the FIRST conference on trends from APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) data including their six-monthly surveys of domain names used in phishing campaigns. There is evidence that concerted campaigns against phishing can be effective – the .hk domain used to be one of the most commonly used […]

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Intermediary Liability

I’ve just submitted a JANET(UK) response to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on draft Defamation Bill. In fact my comments don’t relate to the current draft Bill, but to a longer-term part of the consultation paper (pp 40-47) on whether any changes are needed to the law of liability for Internet intermediaries. At the moment […]