domain names registry
Icann opens a can of worms
News The attraction for cybersquatters is not going to be setting up a registry that matches someone else's brand; it will be in the generic TLDs. On Thursday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted to allow - in addition... [30 Jun 2008]
Six-millionth dot-uk domain sold
News UK businesses setting up online are choosing dot-uk domains in preference to anonymous dot-com addresses, according to domain registry Nominet, which sold the six-millionth dot-uk domain last week to a Merseyside builder. [09 Jul 2007]
Botnets beware: Nominet cleans up UK domains
News The dot-uk domain name registry has teamed up with university security experts to shield UK web users from abuse. Nominet - which administers dot-uk domain names - is collaborating with Oxford Brookes University to find methods to identify abuse of... [26 Apr 2007]
New Web Video User Interface Company Establishes Powerful Brand Identity With .TV Domain Name
White Paper He turned to VeriSign Naming Services, operator of the .tv Domain Name Registry - and after researching many .tv names selected Click.TV as a succinct, memorable identity for the new company. VeriSign is the authoritative directory provider for all... [04 Jan 2007]
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]
easyGroup wins easy.com fight with Easynet
News Easynet had appealed a decision by the Trade Mark Registry to grant the easy.com trademark to easyGroup but lost its case in the High Court after the judge ruled the URL was sufficiently distinctive to merit its own trademark. [19 Jul 2006]
Dot-com domain price hike sparks angry debate
News WG Mitchell, CEO of Network Solutions (which split from VeriSign in 2003), said: "I have no objection to VeriSign continuing to run the dot-com registry. A dispute over the cost of internet domain names has spilled over into the US Congress, where... [08 Jun 2006]
Nominet - Creating a Single View of the Customer
White Paper Nominet, the registry for .uk internet names, manages between 100,000 and 120,000 domain registrations per month, from a total of over 3 million customers. The registry has now migrated the 250,000 external and internal support calls it receives... [26 May 2006]
Hosepipe site makes web history
News Internet domain name registry Nominet has revealed that the number of web addresses ending with dot-uk has now passed the five million mark. Now the world's fourth largest internet registry, it is handling around 144,000 registrations every month. [25 May 2006]
MIT hosts spam pow-wow
News Seventeen of those defendants were from the Registry of Known Spam Operations (Rokso), the FBI Most Wanted List equivalent for spammers. CipherTrust, a network security company, emphasised going after emails with phoney domain names and the spoof... [29 Mar 2006]
China to set up its own 'splinternet'?
News Geir Rasmussen, chief executive of Global Name Registry, a domain name registration organisation which oversees the dot-name domain, said: "Fragmentation is a concern both to Icann and us because of end-user confusion. [02 Mar 2006]
iTunes.co.uk tug-of-war ends
News Ben Cohen, former teenage dot-com millionaire, has given up his fight to regain the iTunes.co.uk domain, according to dot-uk registry Nominet. The battle carries some basic procedural lessons for others who find themselves embroiled in disputes... [23 Nov 2005]
UK's 'worst' spammer banged up
News Francis-Macrae was arrested after threatening Nominet UK, the registry that controls the dot-uk domain. He was also charged with sending fraudulent emails to companies claiming they had to pay a renewal fee to avoid losing their domain names. [17 Nov 2005]
Virtual red light district still in limbo
News Icann's board of directors considered an agreement for the proposed virtual red-light district at a Thursday meeting but decided against taking action, directing Icann staff to negotiate "additional contractual provisions" with ICM Registry, the... [19 Sep 2005]
UK on web address buying spree
News According to domain name registry Nominet, there are now more than 4.2 million registered dot-uk web addresses. The registry said last year the number of dot-uk registrations averaged around 80,000 per month. [18 Aug 2005]
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