Brian McWilliams

Users of TCI’s @Home cable-based internet access service are fuming over a new subscriber agreement the company issued by e-mail last week. The 9,000-word document includes several provisions which have left many subscribers aghast. A section on privacy, for example, says TCI@Home may collect and share information about subscribers and their use of the service […]

A University of Miami law professor is calling on Internet users to read and comment on the World Intellectual Property Organization’s recently released proposal for resolving domain name disputes. Professor Michael Froomkin was among a panel of experts that WIPO consulted for input when preparing the draft, known as RFC-3. Froomkin says the proposal, if […]

With prime real estate dwindling in the .com domain space, the U.S. Department of Commerce next month will re-open discussions on expanding the role of the .us top-level domain. Commerce has called a public meeting for March 9 in Washington, D.C. to gather input on the future administration and management of the .us domain name […]

A potential storm cloud hangs over what promises to be one of the hottest initial public offerings of 1999. iVillage, the popular online women’s network, has been sued for breech of contract by Todd Kenner, the company’s former chief financial officer. Kenner is seeking to block the company’s IPO, scheduled for early March, if the […]

Mattel Inc. has filed a trademark infringement suit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, against Internet Host, a Portland, Oregon Internet service provider. The big toy company accuses Internet Host of registering domains with the intent to trade on the goodwill that Mattel has earned in its Barbie doll products. Internet Host owns 10 […]

A new of breed of macro virus that steals PGP keys has been reported in the wild. But experts disagree about its impact on Internet security. PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, is the defacto standard for encryption on the Internet and is widely thought of as invincible. But the new Caligula virus may shake that […]

One of the Internet’s leading free e-mail providers, Juno Online Services, today appears to be in trouble. Last month, Juno implemented a new policy for its ad-supported, dial-up e-mail service. Effective January 22nd, a small number of its 6.5 million users are permitted to sign on only once per day to access their mail. A […]

An Internet service provider in Ireland today blamed a lack of support from fellow ISPs for nine months of denial service attacks that ultimately brought it to its knees last week. Connect Ireland has recently received international media attention because of the apparently politically-motivated attacks. Connect hosts a top-level domain (www.freedom.tp) for the country of […]

Some users of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer Web browser have unknowingly become participants in a denial of service attack launched on a Web site operated by the Bulgarian Telecommunications Co. Microsoft has posted a message on its Web site warning IE users of the “trojan horse” program that acompanies an e-mail messages sent out last […]

New statistics just out show the number of heated battles between trademark holders and domain registrants may be cooling down. Network Solutions said Tuesday the number of disputes in 1998 dropped almost 10 percent over 1997’s numbers. The company invoked its domain dispute policy 838 times in 1998 compared to 905 times in 1997. The […]