There are several efforts to build a more decentralized internet — from attempts to build peer-to-peer wireless networks like Commotion or Open Garden to similar efforts with P2P browsers, such as… Read more »
Google is proposing a URL-based naming system for navigating the internet of things that it calls The Physical Web. Here’s how it will work and why it might not. Read more »
Akamai’s job is to speed up the web, but as more companies use alternative DNS services, that can be difficult. So it’s signed a deal with OpenDNS to get content to… Read more »
The NTIA made a surprising announcement Friday when it said it might relinquish control of the contract that is awarded to ICANN for managing what acts as an address book for… Read more »
A new company wants to build the equivalent of domain names and the DNS system for the internet of things. It fills a need, but is it the right approach? Read more »
Managed DNS provider Dyn is trying to grow after raising $38 million last year. To manage that growth it has hired its first chief financial officer, Tim O’Toole. Read more »
When SEA took credit for taking down the New York Times and Twitter’s UK site for some people, many may have wondered how they did it. Here’s how. Read more »
After claiming responsibility for the outage at the New York Times, the Syrian Electronic Army has boasted of takeovers at Twitter and the Huffington Post Read more »
Amazon’s home page went down Tuesday. There’s no word on the cause, but this is the second big site outage in the last few days, given Google’s outage on Friday. Read more »