Friday, March 28, 2003

Dot Gov Domain Names Several years ago, GSA was charged with managing the .gov domain by the Federal Networking Council.  Fortunately, Utah had obtained the utah.gov domain prior to that time.  Today, GSA finalized rules associated with dot gov.  The rule includes recommendations for local government domain names.  GSA's registration service can be found at http://www.nic.gov/ .  In Utah, we are recommending for consistency and easy recognition that local governments register through utah.gov with the format "provo.utah.gov" or utahcounty.utah.gov".  Al Sherwood is the registrar for the Utah.gov domain. 2:49:24 PM    comment []

Capitol Connections and breaking news and hacker battle The March issue (isn't it almost April) of Capitol Connections is online.  Included in this issue are an article on DEQ's efforts to support NEIEN development and the One-Stop Reporting Project, as well as an article by Doug Chandler on ITS wireless operations.  The Salt Lake Tribune reports that hackers redirected an Al Jazeera site to a site supported by a Salt Lake-based ISP. I just heard on the radio that there is a major denial-of-service attack coming from France, Russia, and China against NetWorld which is the ISP where the Al-Jazeera site was re-directed to... 8:05:40 AM    comment []

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