Archive for the 'DNS' Category

• 2.20.08 Wikileaks posted in DNS, Free Expression, Internet Censorship

  Wikileaks, the transparency web site that allows anyone to upload leaked materials, was shut down after a California Judge ordered its domain registrar to:

  immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other [...]

• 7.10.07 DNS tampering in China posted in DNS, Filtering Technology, Free Expression, Internet Censorship, Technology

  So, I was doing some searching in google and baidu and noticed two sites (that appeared to be the same) voanews.cn and voanews.com.cn. Upon visiting voanews.com.cn I was surprised to find myself end up at google. voanews.com.cn, like voanews.cn should resolve to 218.25.59.214, not google.
  The other thing that stood out was that these sites [...]

• 7.20.06 Internet Filtering in India posted in DNS, Filtering Technology, Internet Censorship, Uncategorized

  India is not new to Internet filtering. Back in 2004 India’s Ministry of Communications & Information Technologyordered ISP’s to start blocking web sites. The target was a particular Yahoo! Group, but the ISP’s blocked access to the IP address (see Why Block by IP?) of the groups.yahoo.com domain causing all Yahoo! Groups to be [...]

• 6.6.06 Spoof site shut down in Canada posted in Canada, DNS, News Monitor

  Joe Volpe, a candidate in the Liberal leadership race accepted campaign donations from children as young as eleven in an apparent effort to stretch the campaign rules which limit contributions to $5400 per person. In one case, an entire family — mom, dad, and four kids — with connections to Canada’s largest generic drug manufacturer [...]

• 12.1.05 .kz domain posted in DNS, Internet Censorship, Uncategorized

  I just found this blog post concerning the .kz domain. The Government of Kazakhstan wants to restrict the geographic location of the .kz domain. The new rules would require that two DNS servers servicing the .kz domain as well as the webserver hosting the .kz domain be physically located in Kazakhstan. (An FAQ on nic.kz [...]