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Hackers strike at the heart of the internet

News The attack appears to have focused on the domain name system (DNS), which maps text-based domain names to the actual numeric IP addresses of servers... [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,... [05 Dec 2006]

Dot-mobi land grab underway

News On Monday, Mobile Top Level Domain, the company put in charge by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers last summer of allocating the... [24 May 2006]

US bids to hold on to net

News Less than two weeks before a United Nations summit on the internet begins, technology firms including Google, IBM and Microsoft are supporting the Bush administration's efforts to maintain the United States' influence... [04 Nov 2005]

Will .net fees rise after 2006?

News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the not-for-profit organisation responsible for internet addresses, quietly agreed to... [11 Jul 2005]

.eu is officially born

News Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body in charge of managing internet domains, has given the official go-ahead to the... [24 Mar 2005]

Google sets up as domain registrar

News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a nonprofit based in Los Angeles, has deemed Google a domain name registrar, according... [02 Feb 2005]

VeriSign and Icann: Operating "protection racket"?

News VeriSign counters that it is fed up to the back teeth of being mithered by requests for dead and dying domain names and is favouring a system whereby internet ambulance chasers pay a fee... [02 Mar 2004]

Icann "disappointed" in VeriSign

News VeriSign on Thursday sued the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) in federal court in Los Angeles, claiming it was unlawfully prevented from adding new features... [01 Mar 2004]

'Villainous' VeriSign to sue Icann

News The suit, filed in the central district of California, claims that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has transformed itself over the last six years from a... [27 Feb 2004]

A Pedestrian's Guide to the DNS

White Paper The purpose of the DNS is to translate human readable names into their counterpart IP addresses. The Domain Name System (DNS) serves as the major telephone directory for... [25 Feb 2004]

Yahoo! looking to buy Chinese web address venture

News and 3721 come as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the net's supervising body, is studying whether to add suffixes in non-Roman character sets to its... [21 Nov 2003]

Icann dot-com handover backed by court ruling

News In a ruling released Thursday, a federal court in Los Angeles dismissed charges filed by two domain name registrars that alleged the Internet Corporation for Assigned... [17 Nov 2003]

Whois database 'contributes to fraud and ID theft'

News ICANN is a non-profit organisation set up in 1998 to centrally manage internet domain names, IP addresses and other technical matters. When an internet... [07 Nov 2003]

VeriSign drops Site Finder

News listing of similar domain names to users who mistyped a domain name. Site Finder, introduced 15 September, includes a "wildcard" feature that redirects all misspelled or... [06 Oct 2003]

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