http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from John Levine on CircleID en Copyright 2010, unless where otherwise noted. 2010-03-06T11:06:01-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/are_portable_email_addresses_possible http://www.circleid.com/posts/are_portable_email_addresses_possible More...]]> 2010-03-06T11:06:01-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100101_google_loses_another_domain_name_dispute http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100101_google_loses_another_domain_name_dispute More...]]> 2010-01-02T00:14:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/just_make_it_stop http://www.circleid.com/posts/just_make_it_stop More...]]> 2009-12-04T16:14:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091130_us_court_15_million_fine_against_spammer http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091130_us_court_15_million_fine_against_spammer More...]]> 2009-11-30T12:11:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/a_thought_about_not_quite_ascii_top_level_domains http://www.circleid.com/posts/a_thought_about_not_quite_ascii_top_level_domains fast track process for "countries and territories that use languages based on scripts other than Latin" to get domain names that identify the country or territory in its own language. It's not clear to me what the policy is supposed to be for countries whose languages use extended Latin with accents and other marks that aren't in the ASCII set. More...]]> 2009-11-19T10:29:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_do_you_do_secure_bank_transactions_on_the_internet http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_do_you_do_secure_bank_transactions_on_the_internet More...]]> 2009-11-09T10:28:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091108_the_tempest_in_the_tld_teapot http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091108_the_tempest_in_the_tld_teapot More...]]> 2009-11-08T23:08:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090821_helping_banks_fight_phishing_and_account_fraud http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090821_helping_banks_fight_phishing_and_account_fraud Project Honey Pot filed an unusual lawsuit against "John Does stealing money from US businesses through unauthorized electronic transfers made possible by computer viruses transmitted in spam." Their attorney is Jon Praed of the Internet Law Group, who is one of the most experienced anti-spam lawyers around, with whom I have worked in the past. More...]]> 2009-08-21T13:53:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/are_phishing_and_malware_separate_threats http://www.circleid.com/posts/are_phishing_and_malware_separate_threats More...]]> 2009-08-17T08:41:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/why_cant_we_make_the_internet_secure http://www.circleid.com/posts/why_cant_we_make_the_internet_secure More...]]> 2009-08-09T12:39:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_unconscionable_is_profit_that_verisign_makes_from_registry http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_unconscionable_is_profit_that_verisign_makes_from_registry CFIT lawsuit succeeds? It's not hard to make some estimates from public information. The largest gTLD registry that VeriSign doesn't run is .ORG, which was transferred a few years ago to the Public Internet Registry (PIR) which pays Afilias to run the registry, and uses whatever is left over to support the Internet Society (ISOC)... More...]]> 2009-07-11T20:58:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/three_myths_about_dkim http://www.circleid.com/posts/three_myths_about_dkim More...]]> 2009-07-06T07:04:01-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090703_what_are_tlds_good_for http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090703_what_are_tlds_good_for More...]]> 2009-07-03T12:45:01-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090701_who_needs_more_tlds http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090701_who_needs_more_tlds More...]]> 2009-07-01T19:13:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090605_appeals_court_revives_cfit_anti_trust_suit_against_verisign http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090605_appeals_court_revives_cfit_anti_trust_suit_against_verisign More...]]> 2009-06-05T16:19:00-08:00