Angry Ryanair customer loses battle against the airline
A bloke who was so miffed at Ryanair that he set up a website called 'I Hate Ryanair' has been ordered to hand over the site's name to the airline. According to AP, Robert Tyler, of London, set up the...
View ArticleUK government wants ISPs to be its content cops
It appears that the UK government is considering forcing ISPs to turn into its content coppers. The UK government Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, wants to set...
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UK domain beats China to second place
The UK's top level domain (TLD) .uk, more commonly found in .co.uk, has for the first time beaten China's .cn domain into second place for the most used country domains.The news comes in the latest...
View ArticleUK police want power to shut down websites
UK police are asking for new powers to shut down websites that are seen as engaging in illegal activity.The powers come as part of a proposal from the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) to...
View ArticleThe internet bids an emotional farewell to IPv4
The Number Resource Organisation has announced that the pool of IPv4 addresses has now, alas, come to an end, though there are no signs of civilisation stuttering to a complete halt as far as we can...
View ArticleNominet and police web take-down should seek judicial oversight
Changes to the website takedown rules should be considered very carefully and there needs to be a full judicial oversight, the Open Rights Group has said. The comments from the organisation come as...
View ArticleThe internet myths that parents believe
The world wide wibble is clearly a place of strange rumours and speculation, but it is amazing what people really believe. According to research from the Nominet Trust, more than a third of parents...
View ArticleIPv6 transition warnings fall on deaf ears
Despite extensive publicity around the move to IPv6, it seems that there has been a large amount of shoulder shrugging from businesses. A report from analysts at Ovum shows that there is a continued...
View ArticleUK's serious crime squad serves Big Content
UK police have engaged on a Sweeney style take-down operation on the owners of a music blog in one of the largest police over-reactions to piracy seen in the country. The Serious Organised Crime...
View ArticleNominet makes a statement - of sorts
TECHEYE has been phoning Nominet since the beginning of the week and talking to its PR UK spinners - Brands to Life. Nominet has been oddly reluctantly to talk to TechEye - it's almost as if it had...
View ArticleNominet accused of wiping websites
Nominet is a multi-member organisation that handles every .UK top level domain registrant for what it claims is the benefit of small business, safety, best practices, governance and the overall web....
View ArticleNominet embroiled in report fixing allegations
Just one week after TechEye revealed a SNAFU with Nominet's third party auditing - removing .UK domains from the internet without warning, the organisation has been hit with accusations of disability...
View ArticleNominet nods at .UK domain
Top level domain vanguard, Nominet, is recommending the new .UK domain be made available for businesses in a consultation which started today. As TechWeekEurope reports, the not-for-profit organisation...
View ArticleNominet sacks Jill Finney for involvement in CQC cover up
The UK's web domain registrar, Nominet, has sacked ex Care Quality Commission director Jill Finney as Chief Commercial Officer.It was Finney's involvement in the CQC cover-up scandal that led to her...
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