Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Go Daddy Follows Google's Lead

March 25, 2010 | 9:00 AM

From this morning's Earlybird:

• "An official from Go Daddy, the world's largest Internet domain name registrar, told members of Congress Wednesday that increased surveillance by the Chinese government has prompted it to stop providing new address registration services for China's domestic domain, .CN," CongressDailyAM (subscription) reports.

• "A House subcommittee culminated five years of study and debate Wednesday by moving to its parent panel a bill authorizing the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission to require utilities to help shield the nation's electricity grid from major solar disturbances and acts of sabotage," CongressDailyAM (subscription) reports.

• "A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday to regulate prepaid phone calling cards to prevent abuses such as deceptive fees," CongressDailyAM (subscription) reports.

• "With the U.K. election, which must be held by June 6, likely to be the closest since 1974, strategists for Prime Minister [Gordon] Brown and Conservative leader [David] Cameron are trying to use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook and Google Inc.'s YouTube as effectively as" President Obama "did in his 2008 presidential campaign," Bloomberg News reports.

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