domain names on the internet
Anti-malware: Top of the list for Internet Explorer 8
News Previously announced features include highlighting domain names from the rest of the URL (so you can visually see that you are on eBay.com, for example, not some other site), and extended verification SSL. [03 Jul 2008]
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]
Digital Brand Management: Key Safeguarding Strategies
White Paper As the essential means of establishing your company's brand identity on the Internet, domain names are among your most valuable assets - and failing to protect them can put your company at risk. Learn about the latest domain name industry... [03 Jul 2008]
Icann opens a can of worms
News On Thursday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted to allow - in addition to more traditional top-level domains (TLDs), such as .com and .org - theoretically any TLD at all, as long as it is has no more than 64... [30 Jun 2008]
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 names ending in whatever they like. [27 Jun 2008]
Internet Hosting Company Reduces Server Management Time by 92 Percent
White Paper As a leading Internet hosting company serving the Benelux countries, COMBELL hosts Web sites, applications, and servers, and it registers and manages domain names for more than 20,000 small and midsize customers. [23 Mar 2008]
Six-millionth dot-uk domain sold
News Lesley Cowley, chief executive of Nominet, said: "With six million domain names now registered and a large percentage of these linked to ecommerce, it's easy to see the importance of a .co.uk domain name to a business. [09 Jul 2007]
Junked: Is this the end of spam and spoof email?
News By restricting spammers to a limited set of domain names, however, Yahoo! s mail servers can automatically check PayPal's internet domain name listing to verify that the digital signature is valid and the message truly originated at Paypal.com. [23 May 2007]
New domain names on the horizon for 2008
News Get ready for a flurry of new top-level internet domain names in 2008. Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body responsible for allocating generic and country code top-level domain names - gTLDs and... [14 May 2007]
Why DDos attack didn't bring down the net
News The distributed denial of service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) proved the effectiveness of the Anycast load-balancing system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) said in a document published last week. [12 Mar 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 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, gave VeriSign the right to raise fees on dot-com domains by... [05 Dec 2006]
US web stranglehold challenged
News A top UN official has called for changes to the way the internet is operated, taking aim at the US stranglehold on domain names and internet addresses. Speaking at the opening of a four-day UN summit in Athens Yoshio Utsumi criticised the current... [30 Oct 2006]
Firefox lover owns IE7.com
News The suits revolve around more than 600 domain names. Microsoft may be on the verge of releasing the latest version of its Internet Explorer web browser but it has been beaten by a competitor to the use of the IE 7 domain name. [04 Sep 2006]
US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?
News The MoU, designed to pave the way for an eventual shift away from US control, outlines more specific obligations for Icann, such as procedures for establishing new top-level domain names, for keeping tabs on "Whois" registry information, and for... [17 Aug 2006]
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