Hackers knocked Comcast.net offline late Wednesday night, preventing
customers from getting to their Comcast Web mail and account records on
the company’s Internet portal reports IDG.

We would like to welcome Rick Waters of WebCast1 to the DomainNews as one of our expert authors moving forward. We will soon be portraying his profile in our editor’s section but in the meantime we would like to invite our readers to Watch a LIVE interview w/ Monte Cahn of Moniker / Oversee.net this Friday May 30th 4pm. EST only on Webcast ONE.

Source: Posted by Roland G Buck - Chief Editor - DomainNews.com - May 29, 2008

While some of the larger ccTLDs note milestones of registrations in the
millions, there are smaller ccTLDs whereby 10,000 registrations, given
the economic situation and internet infrastructure, are major
achievements.

Vint Cerf, father of the internet, former ICANN Chair and now Google’s
vice president and chief Internet evangelist, is rumoured to be on
the short list for President-elect Obama’s proposed chief technology
officer. In this interview with Nextgov, Cerf outlines what he might
include on the CTO’s agenda and how the position could invigorate the
economy by creating jobs through investments in infrastructure.

NIC Argentina has recently advised registrars IDNs will be available for registration starting sometime before August 2008). The Argentinean IDN launch will comprise four stages: