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  • Anti-spam assault spans Asia-Pacific

    Australian regulators have signed an agreement with Asia-Pacific nations to step up the war against spam.

  • VeriSign calls halt to .com detours

    VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to shut down its new Site Finder service Friday, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes.

  • VeriSign says .com redirect isn't dead

    VeriSign fired back at critics of its controversial--and temporarily suspended--domain-name redirect service, saying that Net regulators had no authority to force the company to shut it down.

  • New suit filed against VeriSign over redirect

    VeriSign is facing a new class-action lawsuit over its controversial "SiteFinder" service, which redirects all misspelled or unassigned .com domain names to a search page managed by the domain name registrar.

  • Greeting card virus licensed to spread

    The FriendGreetings electronic greeting card has all the hallmarks of a mass-mailing computer virus.

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  • Can the Net survive filtering?

    Harvard Law's Jonathan Zittrain writes that the filtering of Internet content is on the upswing, a trend that--left unchecked--threatens to undo a basic underpinning of the global cybernetwork.

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