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A Primer on Trademark Law and Internet Addresses
White Paper Quite a bit has been written in the recent past about trademark issues surrounding the registration and use of Internet domain names. This article examines these cases and presents a more complete primer on trademark and dilution law as it pertains... [03 Jul 2008]
Botnets beware: Nominet cleans up UK domains
News Nominet - which administers dot-uk domain names - is collaborating with Oxford Brookes University to find methods to identify abuse of the domain name system (DNS) and registration data stored on its 'Whois' directory. [26 Apr 2007]
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 connected to the internet, and vice versa. John Crain, chief technical officer at the Internet... [07 Feb 2007]
VeriSign granted dot-com til 2012
News The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the US Department of Commerce, said in a statement the contract would only be renewed at the end of its term if "the approval will serve the public interest in the... [05 Dec 2006]
MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-291 Exam Cram: Managing Name Resolution
White Paper The software that translates these names to network addresses is called the Domain Name System (DNS). To solve this dilemma, a system was developed whereby people can use "Friendly" names that are then translated automatically into IP addresses... [23 Jun 2006]
Icann tests global domain names
News Icann, the standards body that oversees the internet addressing system, is to test Arabic, Chinese and other non-Roman characters in domain names. Earlier this month the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry announced the creation of a new set... [17 Mar 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 over domain names. [04 Nov 2005]
US moves to keep control of net names
News In a letter to Commerce and State Department officials, the lawmakers said the Bush administration should retain strong oversight over the internet domain name system, specifically the root servers that guide traffic to huge databases containing... [10 Oct 2005]
Cisco net phones have software flaw
News DNS handles the translation of domain names into IP addresses. It gave the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol vulnerability, which also affects other software, a "moderate risk" warning. Affected products include Cisco IP Phones 7902/7905/7912... [25 May 2005]
VeriSign gets the cyber attack fear
News The servers translate text-based domain names, such as "News.com", into the actual numeric IP addresses of servers connected to the internet, and vice versa. Over the next year, VeriSign aims to place additional replicas of one of its Domain Name... [20 May 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]
Google sets up as domain registrar
News Google has become accredited to register and sell web addresses under the governing body of domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a nonprofit based in Los Angeles, has deemed Google a domain name registrar... [02 Feb 2005]
DNS hack leaves corporate networks wide open
News DNS servers act as the white pages of the internet, invisibly transforming easy-to-remember domain names - such as www.silicon.com - into the numerical network addresses used by computers. The security hack essentially uses data transferred by... [02 Aug 2004]
Anti-spam email "caller ID" gets Microsoft backing
News Efforts to merge several similar authentication schemes have been under way since last autumn and the combined SPF and Caller ID, which has yet to be named, will use XML to let ISPs post IP addresses in the Domain Name System, the giant database... [26 May 2004]
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 to be put on a waiting list and, when a domain expires, get... [02 Mar 2004]
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