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RSS IcannA Leading Registrar Offers VeriSign Identity Protection Authentication Services to Avoid Fraudulent Domain Name Transfer
White Paper In 2003, Name.com was launched as a unique, independent, and fully ICANN-accredited domain registrar. Name.com has continued to build on this foundation by being recognized as an innovator and industry leader through... [19 Sep 2009]
Seven Keys for Successful Domain Portfolio Management
White Paper In the last several years, there has been a proliferation of new ccTLD IDNs (Internationalized domain names), many new second-level, and third-level ccTLD offerings, nine new sTLDs, significant changes to ICANN's... [16 May 2009]
Microsoft puts $250,000 bounty on worm-creator's head
News Participants include: AOL, Arbor Networks, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), F-Secure, Global Domains International, Public Internet Registry, Symantec and VeriSign. This has been... [16 Feb 2009]
Icann opens a can of worms
News On Thursday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted to allow - in addition to more traditional top-level domains (TLDs), such as .com and .org - theoretically any TLD at all, as long as it... [30 Jun 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted Thursday to relax rules for naming websites. At its meeting in Paris, Icann, a not-for-profit organisation that oversees the naming... [27 Jun 2008]
New domain names on the horizon for 2008
News Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body responsible for allocating generic and country code top-level domain names - gTLDs and ccTLDs respectively - is asking for public... [14 May 2007]
Why DDos attack didn't bring down the net
News The distributed denial of service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) proved the effectiveness of the Anycast load-balancing system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) said in a document... [12 Mar 2007]
Hackers strike at the heart of the internet
News John Crain, chief technical officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which operates one of the main so-called root DNS servers, said: "It is an unusual large amount of traffic that is... [07 Feb 2007]
VeriSign granted dot-com til 2012
News The decision follows a lawsuit settlement reached back in March, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which oversees the net's address infrastructure, gave VeriSign the right to raise... [05 Dec 2006]
Spamhaus beats off the lawyers
News Internet registrar Icann said earlier this month that it would not suspend the Spamhaus domain. Spamhaus, a leading UK anti-spam service, will continue to operate after a US court rejected an attempt to take it offline... [23 Oct 2006]
US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?
News The US government this week renewed its contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), effectively extending its grip on the administrative body that co-ordinates net addressing until up... [17 Aug 2006]
Give us open access to Whois data, says US gov't
News It was responding to a recommendation from an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) committee to restrict use of the data to strictly "technical purposes". The official statement comes after an... [28 Jun 2006]
Dot-com domain price hike sparks angry debate
News The dispute arises out of a lawsuit settlement reached on 1 March in which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) gave VeriSign the right to raise fees on dot-com domains by seven per cent annually. [08 Jun 2006]
Icann vetoes sex suffix
News Internet regulator Icann has voted down a proposal to create a domain for adult websites. Despite ardent political interest in the issue, Paul Twomey, the chief of Icann, told the Associated Press the... [11 May 2006]
Democrats rekindle porn domain debate
News The 11-page measure would require the US Department of Commerce to work with Icann, the non-profit organisation that oversees domain names, to develop plans for a domain name system that would house material deemed... [20 Mar 2006]
