Posts Tagged with ‘ICANN’

MobiTV is supposed to be the epitome of Web 2.0. It's designed for mobile. It streams both video and “radio” content. They have an edgy site design with the requisite orange and green Web 2.0 colors. Sure, they forgot to register the mobi.tv domain that makes more sense to frequent Web 2.0 users, but that one small oversight could be forgiven.
It's not so easy, however, to excuse their lawyering up to deal with what is an EGREGIOUS lack of technology. [...]

The news popped up on Twitter almost immediately; YouTube was down. After the Amazon S3 outage earlier this month, I'm sure everyone was wondering if YouTube was to blame or Google themselves had gone down. We now know what happened; in Pakistan's attempt to block the video-sharing site due to what it considered to be offensive material about Islam. In doing so, they hijacked some of the IP addresses directing traffic to YouTube, propagated the hijacking to other DNS [...]