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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]
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]
Registrar accused over dot-eu stash
News A EURid representative said on Wednesday: "It should be possible for anyone to register domain names and as many as they like. A registrar and reseller of dot-eu domain names has denied accusations his business has operated unfairly by stockpiling... [09 Aug 2006]
UK police collar "violent jihad" website operator
News The name "Azzam" - which appears in the websites' domain names - apparently refers to Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, who died in 1989 and is widely considered to have laid the foundation for the militant Islamic fundamentalist movement with which Osama bin... [21 Jul 2006]
Dot-com domain price hike sparks angry debate
News A dispute over the cost of internet domain names has spilled over into the US Congress, where allegations of monopolisation and unreasonable price hikes surfaced in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. [08 Jun 2006]
Google: Business software 'bereft of soul'
News Referring to the ability to make contacts databases far more informative than a list of names and addresses, Benioff said: "When we started Salesforce.com we didn't have Google Maps but we do now, and we love it. [25 May 2006]
Icann vetoes sex suffix
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' board on Wednesday voted nine to five against the proposal, which would have led to the creation of a dot-xxx domain suffix for pornography sites. [11 May 2006]
China to set up its own 'splinternet'?
News The domain names were launched on Wednesday by the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry. China has announced it is creating a new set of domain names based on Chinese characters. China has created three of its own top-level domains that will... [02 Mar 2006]
Stamp out dodgy domain registration, Icann told
News The study, released on Wednesday by the US General Accountability Office, showed that 2.31 million domain names, or 5.14 per cent of all domain registrations, have been registered with information "obviously and intentionally false" (such as a... [08 Dec 2005]
UK's 'worst' spammer banged up
News He was also charged with sending fraudulent emails to companies claiming they had to pay a renewal fee to avoid losing their domain names. Francis-Macrae was accused of defrauding thousands of people by tricking them into sending him money to... [17 Nov 2005]
Bush agrees web control pact with UN
News At issue in this dispute is the unique influence the US government wields over the master list of top-level domain names - such as dot-com, dot-org, and country codes including dot-uk and dot-jp - as a result of the network's historical origins. [16 Nov 2005]
'Tunisia not fit to host world web summit'
News The US has stated repeatedly that it does not intend to give up its unique influence over domain names. According to the group, Christophe Boltanski, a correspondent who covers human rights issues for the French daily Liberation, was badly shaken... [15 Nov 2005]
Mozilla to release Firefox update to fix flaws
News The decision for new, so-called point releases was made after the disclosure last week of a problem in the way the browsers handle International Domain Names, or IDNs - web addresses that use international characters. [15 Sep 2005]
No sex.eu please, we're British
News UK companies may find it tricky to register generic dot-eu domain names during the sunrise period next year but there is a way around it if the continental approach is used. When the dot-eu domain goes live - expected to happen sometime late next... [21 Oct 2004]
Four spammers hit with first Can-Spam action
News The Federal Trade Commission is also involved in investigating the operation, and it said in the filing that it had received more than 10,000 complaints regarding the Avatar operation and had discovered 97 different Web site domain names... [30 Apr 2004]
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