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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]
China to set up its own 'splinternet'?
News China has created three of its own top-level domains that will use the domain names dot-cn, dot-com and dot-net, in Chinese. Geir Rasmussen, chief executive of Global Name Registry, a domain name registration organisation which oversees the dot... [02 Mar 2006]
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]
Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator
News The Bush administration recently raised objections to the proposed addition of dot-xxx as a red-light district for pornographers, for instance, a veto power that no other government is able to wield. At the heart of this international political... [19 Oct 2005]
Icann delays .xxx porn vote
News The move by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) was expected after ICM Registry, the Florida company that plans to operate dot-xxx, agreed on Monday to a month's delay, saying the additional time would permit it to... [17 Aug 2005]
VeriSign suit not about 'control of the internet' says ICANN chief
News The main resolution gave the go-ahead for ICANN to press ahead with the process of finding a "successor operator" for the dot-net domain by June - ahead of the original contract with VeriSign, signed in 2001, expiring. [08 Mar 2004]
Disney-porn hook-up sends typosquatter to jail
News Typosquatting reached its peak in the heady days of the dot-com bubble, with organised criminals and a few get-rich-quick merchants playing on popular brand names and sloppy typing to drive their own traffic. [01 Mar 2004]
Icann plans thwarted by US bill
News A pair of Washington state politicians, on behalf of a collection of companies that register domain names, said they intend to block a controversial procedure that would establish VeriSign as a central place to buy all expiring dot-com and dot-net... [20 Jun 2003]
German registrar deletes US website
News Chuck Gomes, a vice president at VeriSign, which runs the dot-com registry, said he is not familiar with the Ogrish.com dispute but the transfer could be in the middle of the standard five-day process. [12 Feb 2003]
For sale: Dot-org domains, one careful owner
News Previous owner Verisign surrendered control of the domain in exchange for an extension to its control of the far more lucrative dot-com domains. The dot-org domain name is set to have a new owner after Icann revealed 11 bidders have registered... [25 Jun 2002]
Dot-com domain control stays in VeriSign's hands
News Likewise, management of the dot-com registry will be opened to competition on 10 November 2007. It must hand over management of the dot-org registry to a not-for-profit organisation by December 31, 2002, along with $5m funding. [03 Apr 2001]
Dot-com domain control up for grabs
News At issue is whether one single company - Verisign - will be allowed both to manage the registry and act as a registrar by selling the dot-com addresses on it. If Icann's board of directors rules against Verisign, the security software firm will... [02 Apr 2001]
Can Icann clarify dot-eu names?
Comment It has started work on a legal framework for the implementation and operation of dot-eu which will "include measures to counter the speculative and abusive registration of names". Names expected to be released include dot-shop, dot-travel and dot-sex. [26 Aug 2000]
Icann funding plan angers national registrars
News The registrars behind country code domain names such as dot-uk and dot-fr are up in arms over a large bill from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). Icann is an industry-led consortium which has taken on management of... [04 Jul 2000]
Doctors take over Moldova
News According to the Financial Times, the Domain Name Trust has sold 8,000 dot-md names to date - 2,000 of which are already Web sites. US company, Domain Name Trust, has negotiated an agreement with the government of Moldova to use its dot-md domain... [21 Jan 2000]
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