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Breaking: Private Equity company acquires .Org registry – Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Post author By tongwing
Post date November 14, 2019

ICANN lifts price caps on .org registry. PE firm acquires .org registry. PE firm appoints former ICANN executives to top positions. Does something seem fishy here? How much does companies like Wikipedia have to pay to keep their .org domain from now on?

Ethos Capital is a new private equity firm lead by Erik Brooks. Brooks was at Abry Partners until earlier this year. Abry Partners acquired Donuts and installed former ICANN President of Global Domains Akram Atallah in the top spot there.

Source: Breaking: Private Equity company acquires .Org registry – Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

(Edit) 2019-11-23: You can sign up to reject the sale.

unCaptcha: A Low-Resource Defeat of reCaptcha’s Audio Challenge

Post author By tongwing
Post date January 7, 2019

CAPTCHA is almost ubiquitous in today’s web applications and an extremely popular CAPTCHA implementation is Google’s, namely reCaptcha. reCaptcha provides an audio version for visually-impaired users. Researchers manage to make use of free speech-to-text services to defeat audio reCaptcha.

unCaptcha: Talk is cheap in defeating reCaptcha

Source: unCaptcha: A Low-Resource Defeat of reCaptcha’s Audio Challenge

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AMP for email is a terrible idea

Post author By tongwing
Post date February 14, 2018

I totally agree with this article. Email is fine as-is. There’s no need to make it more “interactive” or “engaging” – we have the web for that. Email is one of the last vestige of the open internet that hasn’t been locked down into a walled garden. Please keep it that way.

Google just announced a plan to “modernize” email, allowing “engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.” Does that sound like a terrible idea to..

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