domain names name system profit organisation

US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?

News The new contract between the not-for-profit organisation and the US Department of Commerce covers technical functions related to the internet domain name system (DNS) and is scheduled to go into effect on 1 October, one day after the existing... [17 Aug 2006]

Democrats rekindle porn domain debate

News The 11-page measure would require the US Department of Commerce to work with Icann, the non-profit organisation that oversees domain names, to develop plans for a domain name system that would house material deemed "harmful to minors". [20 Mar 2006]

VeriSign and Icann: Operating "protection racket"?

News VeriSign took the non-profit organisation to court, claiming that Icann unlawfully prevented it from adding new features to the domain-name database it has a contract to run - among them, the bile-attracting Site Finder, as well as the waiting... [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 to the domain name database it has a contract to run. [01 Mar 2004]

Net pioneer Jon Postel dies

News Postel played a crucial role in the debate on handing over management of the Internet domain name system to a private, non-profit organisation. Postel helped to found many of the organisations which have been crucial to the development of the Net... [19 Oct 1998]

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