icann in comment and analysis
Is BBC trumping Hollywood with free video?
Comment Because time-shifting a pre-recorded programme is inconsequential, Cerf, who currently serves as the chairman of Icann and the vice president of technology strategy at MCI, is convinced the media landscape will change. [19 May 2005]
Leader: The VoIP evolution
Leader This week, Icann chairman Vint Cerf joined in a chorus which already includes (predictably) Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom. Technological change is rarely sudden. More often it's a gradual, continuous process - an evolution, one might say. [15 Apr 2005]
Beware domain name minefield
Comment Whether more regulation from ICANN, or even legislation, is the answer is open to debate but until then companies need to beware of the domain name minefield that can do irreparable damage to their online brand. [08 Jul 2003]
Memo to domain name industry - SORT IT OUT
Comment Icann may not be an organisation that inspires great devotion, or even interest, in most internet users but the domain name body has a habit of hitting the headlines. In order to wrest back control of the domain root server from the US government... [09 Jan 2002]
VeriSign enforces the Icann't party line
Comment We're talking about VeriSign and Icann, the people who decide who gets to be a dot-com. It's taken Icann years to get round to delivering dot-biz, in the face of massive demand. But if you look at it a little, Icann has a clear incentive to delay... [25 May 2001]
Dot-shop: Is it just a dot-con?
Comment But Icann, who has been talking about setting these new addresses up for years, dragged its feet for so long that someone went ahead and did it anyway. If they're not genuine addresses, what happens to people who spent $25 on a new.net domain name... [07 Mar 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Nazi memorabilia on Yahoo! in France and Icann's new names
Comment Meanwhile, the announcement of new top level domain names from internet governing body Icann (http://www.silicon.com/a40928 ) elicited these, rather anti-commercial responses The W3 consortium, and ICANN should work together in the interests of... [24 Nov 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Coffee gets wired, the ebusiness porn model, and ASP SLAs
Comment The most obvious solution, the provision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) of the top-level domain .XXX or .adult allowing easy disabling of access to porn sites by schools and employers, was declined. [14 Nov 2000]
E-markets, Oftel and ICANN
Comment Yes, the most important internet poll this month has finished with the election of five new members to the at-large board of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN oversees internet domain names, IP addresses and the... [13 Oct 2000]
Can Icann clarify dot-eu names?
Comment However, the debacle does call into question Icann's role as internet watchdog. However, now Icann, the body controlling much rulemaking on the internet, is discussing the release of five new domain names just as likely to affect companies. [26 Aug 2000]
Icann, you can, we can
Comment Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is one of the most powerful organisations in the new economy. But for all its benefits, Icann is a flawed organisation. Last October, Icann responded to the latter criticism by dumping... [30 Jun 2000]
What's in a name? ICANN and the Net name game
Comment At its most recent meeting on 26 August in Santiago, Chile, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a policy designed to break the back of domain name lawsuits. ICANN wants to create a third-party arbitration... [06 Sep 1999]
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