In preparation for the year 2000 (Y2K), this document describes the research done and steps taken to insure that the operation of the 13 root name servers is not disrupted. The first section of this document describes the root nameserver system, detailing the two major components of that system, the root zone [...]

July 29, 2008 — 11:30 AM PDT — by Sean P. Aune —

Whether you’re setting up an Intranet for your company or a collaborative website for your family, there are a variety of wiki solutions to choose from. We’ve gathered a list of more than 30 of them for those that wish to try their [...]

How does this threat to Internet freedom affect you?
Such corporate control of the Web would reduce your choices and stifle the spread of innovative and independent ideas that we’ve come to expect online. It would throw the digital revolution into reverse. Internet gatekeepers are already discriminating against Web sites and services they don’t like:

In May [...]

Check out these 15 Internet screw-ups that will live in infamy.

Dreamhosts’ $7.5 Million Billing Mistake: Due to a “fat-fingered” error, Dreamhost accidentally overbilled almost all of their customers, charging them for nearly a year in hosting fees. Large charges appeared on customers’ credit and debit cards, but Dreamhost promised to make good on refunds, and [...]

Early on in my writing career, I took on a couple of articles covering project management. To put it mildly, I didn’t know a Gantt chart from a PERT chart. Worse, I didn’t even know where to start. I had already learned, though, that vocabulary is the fastest way to become an expert on any [...]

NewTeeVee has reported that the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay is working on an encryption technology to protect the all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The name of the project is “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. The Pirate Bay aims to provide encryption at the network level and not [...]