Image courtesy of iStockphoto Hidden identities on the web The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is conducting a study to examine the extent to which generic top-level domain names (such as .com or .org web addresses) involved in illegal or harmful internet activities are registered via Privacy or Proxy services - protecting their operators from detection by the authorities. NPL was selected to carry out this work by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a worldwide not-for-profit public-benefit corporation which coordinates the internet's naming system and is dedicated to keeping the internet secure, stable and interoperable. The study will help the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) and the ICANN community better understand how often cyber criminals

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