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Restaurants in November had best performance in five months
Money & CompanyRestaurants in November turned in their best performance in five months and are looking forward to solid sales and a better economy in 2012, according to a major trade group.... -
ICANN approves open Web domain name rules: .anything is possible
L.A. Times Tech BlogMove over .com, get ready for .anything .you .can .think .of. The body that controls the way Internet domain names work, known as ICANN, has voted to open up the naming system so that any established organization with enough cash...... -
Go Daddy in talks to be bought, could fetch more than $2 billion
L.A. Times Tech BlogGo Daddy Group Inc. is negotiating to sell itself for more than $2 billion to a private investment group led by KKR & Co. and Silverlake Partners. The talks were confirmed by a person familiar with the negotiations between the...... -
FACTBOX-Speakers at Reuters Cybersecurity Summit
Reuters(For other news from Reuters Cybersecurity Summit, click on http://www.reuters.com/summit/Cyber13) May 12 (Reuters) - Jeff Moss Chief Security Officer ICANN Richard McFeely Executive Assistant Director FBI Gerry Cauley President and CEO NERC (North...Tags: Michael Chertoff, National Security, Lockheed Martin Corp., Aerospace Manufacturing, U.S. Navy
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Google gives a virtual nod to 'Palestine'
Google has switched the tagline on its Palestinian website, replacing the words “Palestinian territories” with “Palestine” in both English and Arabic. Google spokesman Nathan Tyler said the company consulted "a number of...
Tags: International Organizations, Palestinian National Authority, BBC, Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas
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Russia backs off plan that would place more regulation on Internet
A Russian-led proposal by a coalition of countries to place further government regulation over the Internet has been withdrawn. The plan under consideration by the International Telecommunication Union would have given countries the power to block the...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Russia, Media Industry
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.Com is so 1990s -- Internet braces for a lot more domain name variety
The worldwide entity that acts as a traffic cop for Internet domain names, ICANN, today released a list of hundreds of proposed top level domain names that could supplment the current 20+ suffixes in use, such as .com, .org., .net, .org, and .xxx. ICANN...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, American Heart Association, Google Inc., The Boston Globe
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New porn domain goes live across the Internet
It's either a new, safer era for adult content on the Web or the first step in creating a digital porn ghetto, depending upon who you ask.
On Tuesday more than 100,000 websites went live with the new .xxx domain.
The suffix was approved as a "top-...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Viral Diseases and Infections, The Pennsylvania State University, White House, CNN (tv network)
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Colleges buy up .xxx domain names
When you go to notredame.xxx on the Internet, don’t expect to see anything racy or offensive.Instead you’ll see a message stating: “This domain has been reserved from registration.”The University of Notre Dame purchased four...Tags: Education, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Facebook, Colleges and Universities
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College buying up xxx sites to curb porn
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The University of Kansas is buying up website names such as www.KUgirls.xxx and www.KUnurses.xxx. But not because it's planning a Hot Babes of Kansas site or an X-rated gallery of the Nude Girls of the Land of Aaahs....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Go Daddy Group Inc., Companies and Corporations, Target, Politics
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