Here is a week round-up of some news related to the internet that caught my attention, I hope they get yours too.

- Recently ICANN gave the control of .com domains to VeriSign until 2012, and one of the subjects that plenty of people talked about was the possibility of VeriSign to raise the price of domain names.

Some companies (Godaddy, Network Solutions and others) have stepped forward and made petitions to stop the deal.

Bob Parsons, CEO of Godaddy.com, comments:

We will not sit back without a fight. This deal is outrageous. It’s monopolistic because it locks in price hikes and eliminates good old-fashion competition. It’s a mistake secretary (Carlos) Gutierrez can stop.

- Amazon launched a new storage device that lets users upload unlimited data, at a cost of $0.15 of GB (in terms of storage capacity), and $0.20 per GB of data transferred Not bad… but there are some services that offer this for free. Anyway, it’s called Amazon S3 and it looks like you can upload a file with a size of 5GB.

- A user was banned from playing World of Warcraft because of… unknown reason. The user was playing under Linux and using a Logitech Gaming keyboard, and somehow, Blizzard detected 3rd party being used. True, or false? Read the e-mails with more details that were exchanged.

- The new Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 will be released next Tuesday - what? No fix for memory leaks? Damn, I still get plenty of firefox crashes because of the 20 tabs I always open. Maybe they will fix this in the next version, or not.

- I was going to mention a hyped article on TechCrunch, about a new Flickr competitor called Zoomr, but it seems that TechCrunch is feeling the “Digg Effect” after publishing an article about the power of Digg, and their website is currently down. Irony?