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Open season

AS Analysis Gemma Simpson surveys the rankings for signs of the re-emergence of some household names. Stallman was also instrumental in pushing open source further into the public domain by developing a free open-source software replacement for Unix and...

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[12 Oct 2007]

Fighting Fraud: Virtual regulation and confidence in ecommerce

Comment The proposal to create new top-level domain names has also led to complaints concerning pre-registration sales methods. Also, domain names have been stated to be available for a fee when they are in fact either not registerable under current rules...

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[24 Apr 2001]

Icann, you can, we can

Comment Responsible for assigning top level domain names, it has the potential to resolve intellectual property and copyright disputes, the bane of a thriving online economy. Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is one of the...

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[30 Jun 2000]

Analysis: The new Internet order

Comment Agencies that administer the domain names for individual countries should form an Iana Names Council that makes policy for generic domains such as .com, .net and .org, as well as their own country domains, he suggested.

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[13 Aug 1998]