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NU Domain is among the first Country-Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) to offer its registrars the new standard Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP). The implementation of this standard provides registrars the ability to use a single interface for all TLD registries and streamlines integration processes, thus reducing registrars' costs. The Internet organization ICANN, which oversees the Internet's domain name system, now requires all generic top domains, such as .com, .net, .org, to adapt to EPP.

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A VeriSign spokesman has said that Verisign found out that a domain name panix.com was transferred without the prior knowledge of the actual registrant and the name servers also changed on Sunday, January 9.

The domain name of Panix, a well-known public access network in New York which later became a commercial ISP, was transferred to Melbourne IT via a reseller in the UK, and panix.com's mail was redirected to another company in Canada over the weekend of January 15-16.

VeriSign serves as a registry for .com and .net domain names. Verisign says that panix.com domain hijack was a true "unauthorized transfer" which took place because of an inadvertent issue with a Registrar transfer system.

Panix has blamed Melbourne IT for the incident.
Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Huygens at last twisted and spun as it tumbled to Titan's muddy surface revealing animated pictures of the final meters (yards) of its descent.

The mission, operated in cooperation with NASA, crowned a string of successes over the past year that show how Europe's space ambitions have grown. They included sending an orbiter to photograph the surface of Mars, flying a spacecraft into lunar orbit with an innovative ion propulsion system and launching a probe to land on a comet.

Spectrum Reports

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THE devastating earthquake that rocked South-East Asia and brought Tsunamis last month had an impact on the earth's rotation. The earthquake has slightly changed the planet's shape and shifted the North Pole by 2.5cm.

Atlanta Journal Constitution reports

A TRIO of super-giants – red, cool, bright stars at the end of their lives – may be the largest ever identified, astronomers reported yesterday. Three dying stars are up there …Giant Stars May Point the Way to Our Sun's Destiny.

New York Times Reports

The two spacecraft of NASA's Deep Impact mission, dubbed Flyby and Impactor by their makers, are set to launch Wednesday atop a Boeing Delta 2 rocket, their mission: To unlock the inner secrets of comets.

CNN reports

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Microsoft has recently declared the final launch of two newly designed tools to deal with spyware and viruses, that were acquired as a result of takeovers, and confirmed that a full-blown antivirus offering will be released later this year.

The tool is planned to be used to clean the infected machines and not preventing them from becoming infected. The antivirus software is being made available for downloading from January 11 and will be updated with fresh virus definitions on the second Tuesday of the month.

The beta version of the Windows AntiSpyware has been made available for downloading from the company's site. It has been developed using software developed by spyware company Giant, which Microsoft took over during December last.

This move points that Microsoft may soon reach to a new scenario popularizing its antivirus software through the same medium it has been using to deliver the fixes for its own bugs that has been allowing quite many viruses to circulate in the first place.
Microsoft on spywares and anti-virus software

The Deep Impact probe is scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on January 12, beginning a six-month journey that will end with a celestial firework display on American Independence Day on July 4. The NASA spacecraft will blast off on a mission to blow a chunk out of a comet that may provide clues to the origin of the solar system.

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Even though the impactor will be obliterated by the 3.7 mile-wide comet, it will blast a hole seven storeys deep and as wide as a football pitch in its core, releasing clouds of debris into space. The mother ship loaded with scientific instruments will film the collision and analyse contents of the dust.

Weblogs, those passionate, irreverent online journals that emerged as an influential new media form during the 2004 election, are quickly gaining readership among online Americans.

A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed that 27 percent of Internet users say they read blogs. That's a 58 percent leap from a telephone survey taken in February.

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