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Why DDos attack didn't bring down the net
News Icann regulates internet domain name and address registration and operates one of the main so-called root DNS servers. The distributed denial of service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) proved the effectiveness of the Anycast load-balancing... [12 Mar 2007]
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 domain names, opened initial domain name registration. [24 May 2006]
Stamp out dodgy domain registration, Icann told
News The internet group continues to assess the operation of the registration process and look for ways to improve accuracy, according to the agency's report. Smith concluded that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the... [08 Dec 2005]
Icann gives green light to .travel and .jobs
News Registration for both domains will start in a couple of months, and both should be live by the end of 2005. Icann, the group in charge of regulating top level domain (TLD) names, has approved two new TLDs — .jobs and .travel — to come on stream... [12 Apr 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 creation of a European top level domain, .eu. [24 Mar 2005]
Domain names skyrocket - just don't mention the dot-com boom
News Domain name registration hit an all-time high of 64.5 million at the end of the second quarter, VeriSign has said. VeriSign collects a few dollars a year for each domain name from the approximately 200 ICANN-accredited registrars that sell domain... [15 Sep 2004]
Dot-eu domain name scramble timetable unveiled
News There will be three stages in the registration process for the new European dot-eu domain names, it has been announced; member states, followed by trademark holders, will get their pick of URLs. According to Eurid's provisional calendar, that phase... [11 May 2004]
Amazon enters domain name game
News Until 1999, the registration business had been a government-approved monopoly. Since the market became non-exclusive, more than 100 companies have won the right to register domain names. E-tail giant Amazon.com is to begin selling internet... [03 Mar 2003]
German registrar deletes US website
News A domain name registrar in Germany has deleted the registration for a gruesome US-based online photo gallery that featured stomach-wrenching images from autopsies and medical procedures. Joker.com's dealings with its customers are basically... [12 Feb 2003]
Dot-info debut meets with overwhelming apathy
News UK trademark holders have been slow to take up the new .info top-level domain name (TLD) during the Sunrise trademark registration period, accounting for only six percent of the worldwide total. The Sunrise period is an exclusive period of time for... [24 Aug 2001]
Icann goes into election with 150,000 new members
News According to Icann, the registration process was delayed after an overwhelming number of requests on its site at http://www.icann.org . Over 150,000 internet users have signed up to become members of Icann - the organisation in charge of global... [01 Aug 2000]
Icann, you can, we can
Comment The elections for the new committee are due in September, but reports indicate the cut-off for registration is the 20 July. Responsible for assigning top level domain names, it has the potential to resolve intellectual property and copyright... [30 Jun 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 competition of domain name registration. [05 Nov 1999]
Network Solutions' domain name monopoly slipping away
News Other companies will now be able to offer registration services to global customers looking for domain names and will charge $6 instead of the $35 originally charged by Network Solutions. The first step was to set up an international organisation... [28 Sep 1999]
What's in a name? ICANN and the Net name game
Comment In a testimony to a US congress subcommittee in July, Francis Gurry, assistant general director and legal council to WIPO, claimed making registrars check existing trademarks during the pre-registration process would "increase significantly the... [06 Sep 1999]
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