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Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules

News At its meeting in Paris, Icann, a not-for-profit organisation that oversees the naming scheme for websites, voted to accept a proposal that will allow companies to purchase new top-level domain... [27 Jun 2008]

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... [05 Dec 2006]

Virtual red light district still in limbo

News The fate of the highly controversial dot-xxx internet domain will not be decided until "a future date", a representative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned... [19 Sep 2005]

Icann delays .xxx porn vote

News The board of directors of the not-for-profit group that oversees domain names said on Tuesday that it would delay a vote until its next meeting on 15 September. The move by the... [17 Aug 2005]

Icann dot-com handover backed by court ruling

News A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction filed against Icann, the organisation that oversees internet domain names and addresses. In a ruling released... [17 Nov 2003]

Whois database 'contributes to fraud and ID theft'

News In September, ICANN's Twomey noted that the group, which oversees domain name governance, already had convened a Whois workshop in June in an attempt to "advance work on Whois in a coordinated and... [07 Nov 2003]

VeriSign holds firm on 404 scrap

News Icann is the nonprofit organization that oversees internet domain names. VeriSign said on Monday that it would not abandon its decision to point unassigned... [23 Sep 2003]

VeriSign told to pull '404' redirect service

News The agency that oversees internet domain names has asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects web surfers to its own site when they seek to... [22 Sep 2003]

Icann getting heavy with VeriSign

News The organisation has a contract with the US government to approve web domain names, such as those ending in .info and .biz, and oversees policies to allow smaller companies to sell... [04 Sep 2002]

E-markets, Oftel and ICANN

Comment ICANN oversees internet domain names, IP addresses and the operation of the net's root servers. At this moment in time the 19 member board of ICANN is in the process of... [13 Oct 2000]

Icann ruling opens up domain name market

News A controversial ruling by Internet Corporation Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the body which oversees Web address allocation, has laid the foundation to open... [05 Nov 1999]

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