August 2006
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AOL has released the search queries of over 650K of its users over a three month period. The file contains over 20 million searches. Though the users’ identities are anonymised, there could well be patterns of searching that can be determined.
It is somewhat ironic that the Irish Times had an OpEd waffling on about data privacy and state surveillance. The reality is that these e-jits in the Irish media missed the boat. The big threat to privacy is the data that commercial entities such as the search engines compile about users.
AOL Research has pulled the data but Greg Sadetsky has posted a set of mirror sites.
Tag: Irishblogs - Search - Search Engines - AOL
Written by John McCormac on August 7th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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Cork city lost an ADR for its .eu to well known cybersquatter and cyberwarehousing operation Traffic Web Holdings BV. The Dutch cybersquatter has applied for many city and country names using dubious trademarks, many based on having a & in the name even though that symbol is not permitted. It also registered Belfast’s .eu domain.
Traffic Web Holdings BV had already tried to get its hands on barcelona.eu with a dubious trademark for Bar & Celona. This pattern of bad faith registration is quite apparent but EURid has not done anything about the problem. It is quite obvious that the management of EURid is incompetent as they permit such wholesale abuse of the .eu gTLD.
The ADR decision stated that Cork city may have a case for bad faith ADR against the cyberwarehousing operation.
EURid aided and abetted such cybersquatting and cyberwarehousing by not taking action against obvious bad faith registrations and cyberwarehousing. Perhaps it is time for the European Commission to deal with the management of EURid. The credibility of .eu is at stake. An investigation into the competence of the people who selected the EURid bid to run .eu should also be carried out.
Tags: IrishBlogs,.EU, Cork City, Cork, Domains, .eu Fiasco, Internet Statistics, Eurid, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on August 2nd, 2006 with 10 comments.
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According to a report on EU Politix website, a British Liberal MEP, Diane Wallis is calling for an investigation into the .eu cyberwarehousing fiasco. What makes this different is that Diane Wallis is a member of the European parliament’s legal committee. She has asked the European Commission for a full explanation of how the .eu launch was handled. The article quoted her as saying:
“If the scale of the abuse is anything like what appears to have taken place, this will represent a major EU scandal and commissioners will need to be brought to account.”
The scale of the abuse is really larger than the 74000 domains that EURid has put on hold. It involves US and Canadian registrars using EU front companies to warehouse thousands of .eu domains.
Tags: IrishBlogs,.EU, Ovidio Limited, Ovidio, Domains, .eu Fiasco, Internet Statistics, Eurid, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on August 1st, 2006 with 4 comments.
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