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INTERNET REGISTRATION - ADDRESSES - DOMAINS - DNS - PORTS - TRACE ROUTE
 
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  • The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe: An Updated Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2011 - Track your personal digital footprint, or your "digital shadow" (all the digital information generated about the average person on a daily basis), and watch a ticker that displays Bytes of information created and replicated worldwide since the start of the year.
  • Mutual Internet Practices Association (MIPA) - facilitates cooperation among independent organizations, to ensure a basic level of safe, reliable service across the Internet. The MIPA seeks to unite responsible providers of Internet service into a cohesive group, Projects include:

  • Pew Internet & American Life Project

  • Green Electronics Council - GEC -- Stated mission: Inspire and support the effective design, manufacture, use and recovery of electronic products to contribute to a healthy, fair and prosperous world.
  • ITComparison - They say: "Did you know that almost 90% of all products comparisons on the Internet today are either written by the product vendor, funded by product vendor (like HP, IBM, Dell, VMware, Xen, Microsoft), or aimed at selling that vendor products. Only few honest comparisons exist on the web today focusing on educating IT Professionals. That's where the idea of ITComparison.com came from. None of our comparisons are funded neither motivated by any vendor. We reference vendors comparisons in our charts only after evaluating the competing vendors comparison and make sure they can stand for their claims. This site is created with the aim of helping IT professional in saving valuable time, resources, and money comparing products. We offer many IT Comparisons and  VS related to many IT products and solutions."  
  • The Wayback Machine - Browse through 55 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible.
     
  • CircleID - mission: "to be an effective community hub for all matters related to the Internet's core infrastructure." CircleID offers a unique and open web-based platform serving the community and stake holders around the world. Over the years, almost entirely through word of mouth, CircleID has gained the attention and participation of a wide global community including some of the most sought-after Internet authorities and leaders of the industry. CircleID is well-recognized as a leading online destination for opinions, discussions and analysis of the Internet's core technical infrastructure and policies.
  • Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) - the industry organization leading the development of management standards and integration technology for enterprise and Internet environments. DMTF standards provide common management infrastructure components for instrumentation, control and communication in a platform-independent and technology neutral way. DMTF technologies include information models (CIM), communication/control protocols (WBEM), and core management services/utilities.
     
  • ConsortiumInfo.org - a "comprehensive source of information on the Internet regarding standards, standard setting, and open source software, and on the role that these essential tools play in business and society.
     
  • Right Architecture for the Right Workload: The Application Tier - Scale out, Scale up, or Scale diagonally?
  • The Art of Infrastructure Architecture (by Sun Microsystems)
    • Making Financial Decisions - A multimedia presentation that provides financial decision criteria for your application tier "work of art."
    • How-to Guide - A technical analysis to ensure you have the right platform in place to meet performance requirements in the application tier.
     
  • ISIPP - Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy - has founded the International Council for Internet Communications and manages the ISIPP Accreditation Database (IADB) which is a DNS list of the domains and/or IP addresses of senders who either a) meet ISIPP's criteria as determined by background, reference, and other checks ("non-vouched listings"), or b) are personally known to ISIPP to meet the criteria and to be good Internet mailing citizens.
    • Spam Foes Band Together - the organization will give highly placed spam fighters and strategists a direct line to their counterparts in other countries in order to disseminate information, coordinate tactics and make it more difficult for junk e-mailers to hide their operations.
       
  • Peculiarities of Cyberspace - Building Blocks for an Internet Sociology (English version) - Albert Benschop starts off: "Computers all over the world are connected with each other via high-speed telecommunication lines. Behind their screens there are people of all nationalities, all ethnic-cultural groups, social classes and professions, of all religions and political convictions, of all ages and life-styles, of both sexes who together, but also among themselves show such a rich diversity of preferences and disfavors, expectations for the future and fears, likes and dislikes." ...
    Dutch version -     "Internet is een nieuw medium waarmee mensen vanaf elke gewenste plaats en vanaf elk gewenst tijdstip met elkaar kunnen communiceren. Communicatie is uitwisseling van informatie, maar ook zingeving of interpretatie aan informatie. Internet is in technologisch en sociologisch opzicht de meest belangwekkende gebeurtenissen van het einde van de vorige eeuw."
     

  • DomainConquest - suggests a number of prefixes, suffixes and connectors you might use to develop a .com domain name.
  • SnapNames - allows you to back-order domains, so you can buy when (or if) they become available.
  • Network Solutions' Whois - check this database to see when a domain is up for renewal.
     
  • PURL - Persistent Uniform Resource Locator - "The now-familiar Uniform Resource Locator (URL) can change at the whim of hardware reconfiguration, file system reorganization, or changes in organizational structure, leaving users stranded in 404 limbo... Document Not Found. ... The general solution to this problem is the development of Uniform Resource Names, or URNs. ... To aid in the development and acceptance of URN technology, OCLC has deployed a naming and resolution service for general Internet resources. The names, which can be thought of as Persistent URLs (PURLs), can be used both in documents and in cataloging systems. PURLs increase the probability of correct resolution and thereby reduce the burden and expense of catalog maintenance."
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BANDWIDTH - BROADBAND - ROUTING - TRAFFIC - COUNTERS
WEB SITE MONITORING & MANAGEMENT
 See also: Security
 
DISASTER & CONTINGENCY PLANNING - DATA BACKUP - RECOVERY - SYSTEMS AUDITING
BUSINESS CONTINUITY - RISK ANALYSIS - HIGH AVAILABILITY - SURVIVABILITY - CONSOLIDATION

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail" - John Wooden, UCLA basketball coach
 
Dealing with worst-case scenarios
"Imagine a natural disaster the likes of Hurricane Katrina or a terrorist attack on a major city wipes out business operations. In the mad dash to get back online as quickly as possible, security protocols and procedures take a back seat to regaining business continuity. And that's when a second catastrophe occurs: Information systems are vulnerable to attackers, who see an opportunity in the chaos as companies are forced to rely on backup operations (or even pen and paper)."

The Harsh Reality of Data Loss
"Data loss is an unpleasant fact of modern life. 99.9 percent of all businesses have experienced at least one costly incident of data loss; causes include operating system crashes, failed software installations or updates, user error, power outages, and hard-drive failure. These incidents can have such a damaging effect that they are sometimes called 'digital disasters' ... There's no good news when data loss is involved--but that doesn't mean you can't protect yourself."

 Data Loss Barometer (KPMG)
"Information is the lifeblood of any organisation. Protecting data from theft or unintentional disclosure is critical to ongoing commercial success."

Many Backup/Recovery Systems Going Untested
A survey of more than 500 senior IT professionals reveals that a whopping 89 percent test their disaster recovery/failover systems only once a year or not at all, leaving their enterprises vulnerable to massive technology and business failures in the event of a disaster.

 Warning of data ticking time bomb
 The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb," the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned. saying that society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs could not always open old file formats.

 Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you
For how long can your hard disks really be depended on to survive?

 Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
Why do IT professionals put critical server applications on desktops?
 

INSTANT MESSAGING - WEB CONFERENCING - P2P - SHARING & INTERCHANGE
E-MAIL MANAGEMENT - E-LEARNING & ONLINE TRAINING - CERTIFICATION
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A LITTLE BIT OF SPICE ... CONCERNING DOMAIN HIJACKING

  • New domain rules 'will make hijacking easier' (November 2004) - New rules for domain transfers will make it easier for people to hijack domains, according to the security and network services company Netcraft. The new rules, set by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), will mean that requests for transferring a domain will be automatically approved in five days unless they are denied by the owner of the domain.

Then, not too long afterwards ...
  • New York ISP's domain hijacked (January 2005) - The domain name of Panix, the oldest commercial internet service provider in New York, was hijacked ... and the company is in the process of recovering the same. In a statement on its website, the company said the ownership of panix.com had been moved to a company in Australia, the actual DNS records had been moved to a company in the United Kingdom, and panix.com's mail has been redirected to yet another company in Canada. The Australian company, Melbourne IT, "has reverted the domain back to us, and the global internet registry and domain name servers are now showing the correct information."
  • The Great Domain Robbery of '05 - Have the new rules already failed, or have the registrars failed their customers?
    • ... There's a good chance here that the central issue is not so much disputes between registrars but sloppy procedures at some registrars that allowed an unverified transfer through.
  • Melbourne IT blamed for domain hijack - Melbourne IT commented that "The hijack occurred because a reseller of Melbourne IT failed to follow the process for seeking authorisation for a domain name transfer request. ... Melbourne IT has withdrawn the ability for that reseller to initiate a transfer without Melbourne IT directly authenticating the transfer."
  • Melbourne IT accepts blame for domain hijack (acknowledged that it was partially responsible) - "The hijacking ... shone a light on what some contend are holes in the system for managing Internet domain transfers."
  • ICANN Still Steal Your Domain - it appears that ICANN (the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that sets the rules for registrars to follow, has made things worse with a set of new rules that went into effect last year.
  • ICANN asked to probe all transfer problems by Melbourne IT, who "considered the hijacking incident to be "an isolated, but serious, security incident among many thousands of transfers that have been processed in accordance with the transfers policy."
  • ICANN Digs into Panix.com Domain Theft — but Not Too Deep - "Notwithstanding ICANN's claims to the contrary, its new transfer rules are partly to blame for the Panix.com incident and others certain to come. But it's not the only party coming out of this smelling bad."
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