A quick reminder of two things you might have forgotten over the holiday break. Tomorrow is the final day for submissions to the auDA review on how domain name rules might change in Australia. Meanwhile, the annual Whirlpool broadband survey remains active until the end of the month. Get involved!
.au domains might cost more than their .com equivalents, but they clearly signal an Australian presence. auDA, which sets Australian domain name rules, is weighing up a number of changes, including possible changes to registration policies and the introduction of single-letter domain names, and it wants your thoughts.
Having the ability to connect to the internet anywhere we go is undoubtedly awesome, but it isn’t the only gift Wi-Fi technology has given us. Here are our 10 favourite uses for Wi-Fi that go beyond accessing to the web.
I was on a plane when the government’s partial about-face on Internet censorship and filtering got announced. But a few hours delay absorbing the news makes the essential fact — that there’s no real change in policy — even clearer.
A new top-level porn domain, XXX (e.g. http://pornexample.xxx), was approved today by ICANN, the non-profit organisation responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and approval of new top-level domains like .com, .org and so on. This doesn’t mean that all porn sites will leave their current cushy URLs for XXX – or even, necessarily, that you can’t host a non-porn site on a .xxx domain – but it’ll be an easy block for concerned parents. [PC World]
While the government is denying that its controversial mandatory retention policy for ISPs would capture individual browsing histories, ISPs who were confidentially briefed on the proposal maintain that’s on the cards, and that the plans are also rife with other issues.
News that the Australian government was considering a mandatory retention policy for ISPs that could see them recording all sites accessed by users stirred up a fury amongst Lifehacker readers when it emerged on Friday. News journalists have been busy digging into the issue since, so here’s a quick round-up what we know so far.
As if proposed mandatory censorship laws weren’t bad enough and unpopular enough, now the Federal Government is considering a proposal to require all ISPs to keep a detailed log of every site their customers visit. Yes, that’s every bit as unpleasant as it sounds.
Google Public DNS is designed to speed up browsing, but depending on the kind of content you want to access, it can often have the reverse effect.
