Since the foundation of the Internet, a contract has been handed over to the United States Commerce Department under which the department had given authority to regulate the Internet.
After 47 years, this contract ends tonight at midnight EDT i.e. Saturday, October 1st, 2016.
If you think that the United States owns the Internet, then you’re wrong. It doesn’t.
Founded in 1998, non-profit
Well, we all know that the FBI has previously hosting porn on the Internet. I still remember the case of PlayPen, the world’s largest dark web child pornography site, which was seized by FBI and ran from agency’s own servers to uncover the site’s visitors.
Now, one of the most popular sites owned and operated by the FBI has been serving porn as well.
FBI-owned Megaupload.org and several
To make the configuration of routers easier, hardware vendors instruct users to browse to a domain name rather than numeric IP addresses.
Networking equipment vendor TP-LINK uses either tplinklogin.net or tplinkextender.net for its routers configuration. Although users can also access their router administration panel through local IP address (i.e. 192.168.1.1).
The first domain offered by
The Pirate Bay has fought many legal battles since its launch in 2003 to keep the website operational for the last 13 years.
However, this time The Pirate Bay is suffering a major blow after the Swedish Court ruled Thursday that it will take away the domain names ‘ThePirateBay.se’ and ‘PirateBay.se’ of the world’s most popular torrent website and will hand over them to the state.
As its name
Someone just DDoSed one of the most critical organs of the Internet anatomy – The Internet’s DNS Root Servers.
Early last week, a flood of as many as 5 Million queries per second hit many of the Internet’s DNS (Domain Name System) Root Servers that act as the authoritative reference for mapping domain names to IP addresses and are a total of 13 in numbers.
The attack, commonly known as
