Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:
GoDaddy to Launch x.co URL Shortener — Coming soon, x.co URL shortener. — Domain name registrar GoDaddy is releasing a new URL shortener at x.co, according to a tweet by company founder and CEO Bob Parsons: — This is likely a .co “founder’s program” deal. .
Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:
Movie Piracy Crackdown Begins, Internet Sites Seized — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just announced a major takedown of nine movie piracy sites that illegally offered first-run movies, some within just hours of their theatrical release.
eSecurity Planet Features:
SSL Certificates In Use Today Aren’t All Valid — It should be no surprise that the SSL security certificate business is big business, considering how SSL certificates are seen as being on the frontlines of securing Web transactions against fraud. But new data suggests that SSL certificates are not all being configured correctly.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
For 1 billion speakers, domain names officially go Chinese — ICANN oversees the worldwide domain name system that turns “arstechnica.com” into an IP address, and at a major ICANN meeting today in Europe, the organization made two important decisions. If you read the Interwebs …
Paul Kedrosky / Infectious Greed:
The Web isn’t Brought to You By the Letter “T” — Mostly because I had too much time this week on planes, plus I had some data, I got to thinking about domain name frequency. Does the first-letter frequency among the top 1,000,000 web domains by traffic match the first-letter frequency of words in the English language?
Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed:
The Web isn’t Brought to You By the Letter “T” — Mostly because I had too much time this week on planes, plus I had some data, I got to thinking about domain name frequency. Does the first-letter frequency among the top 1,000,000 web domains by traffic match the first-letter frequency of words in the English language?
Drew Wilson / ZeroPaid.com:
Creative Commons Responds to ASCAP — Yesterday, we reported that ASCAP said that organizations like Creative Commons were undermining their copyrights. Today, we’ve received an official response from Creative Commons with regards to the letter writing campaign.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
A New Suffix for X-Rated Web Sites — SAN FRANCISCO — What if the Web held a sex party and no one showed up? — That’s what could happen now that the agency governing the Internet address system all but approved the creation of a new red-light district on the Web.
Joseph Menn / Financial Times:
Internet address seller attacked — A research report to be released on Monday accuses the world’s second-largest seller of website addresses of knowingly aiding groups that sell counterfeit and adulterated pharmaceuticals to US residents in violation of federal laws.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks — On June 6, Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Wired reported that a 22-year-old U.S. Army Private in Iraq, Bradley Manning, had been detained after he “boasted” in an Internet chat — with convicted computer hacker Adrian Lamo …