Report urges caution on governments’ use of DNS blocking

i2Coalition highlights impact of DNS-level blocking. A new report and website from i2Coalition raise concerns about governments increasingly using DNS blocking to control online content, warning that it could harm the global internet. The report, “DNS at Risk: How Network Blocking and Fragmentation Undermine the Global Internet,” notes that DNS was built to neutrally direct [...]

Censorship-by-Infrastructure: How DNS Blocking Threatens the Open Internet—and How You Can Help Document It

What happens when governments don't just regulate content, but forcibly repurpose the very guts of the Internet's infrastructure to enforce their policies? The chilling answer, increasingly evident worldwide, is widespread, devastating collateral damage. Around the world, neutral systems like Domain Name System (DNS) resolvers and IP routing, the bedrock of our digital lives, are being [...]

GoDaddy plans new domain investor tier of Domain Discount Club

New tier will include domain investor tools that other users don’t need. GoDaddy is introducing a new tier to its Domain Discount Club (DDC), a program that offers discounts and additional features. DDC currently has over 100,000 members. Many of these are domain investors, but others are bulk customers and agencies. These other groups probably aren’t interested in [...]