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Comment The dot-com Bust, the Enron/Worldcom Debacles and now the Sub-Prime Disaster are symptomatic of the same failure mechanisms. The net result is a 'change all the light bulbs and recycle everything... [05 Jan 2009]
DoS attack could shut down the net
News Denial of service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the dot-com domain. Criminal groups selling services online are increasingly... [26 Sep 2007]
Six-millionth dot-uk domain sold
News It's also worth noting that dot-uk domains are cheaper, costing around £5 per year, compared with about £12 per year for dot-com and dot-net domains. UK businesses... [09 Jul 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... [05 Dec 2006]
Mobile web domain up for grabs
News Registrations for the dot-mobi domain name open to the public on Tuesday. But the new dot-mobi sites will be specifically designed to be accessed via mobile phone. For that reason, greatest usage of... [25 Sep 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 12
Comment Afterwards go to meet Sage Brennan - another of dot-com entrepreneur Shak's friends. I'm surprised at this and a little taken back but I figure I'd better play along and surf the net without looking for... [21 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Net neutrality
Cheat Sheet M, Cisco, Corning, Qualcomm and other equipment manufacturers declined to support their Silicon Valley dot-com brethren in favour of the infinitely wealthier telcos. What's this net neutrality fuss all... [16 Jun 2006]
Dot-com domain price hike sparks angry debate
News The settlement, approved by Icann's board by a 9-5 vote, ended a legal spat that started with VeriSign's controversial move to take control of all unassigned dot-com and dot-net domain... [08 Jun 2006]
Dot-mobi land grab underway
News A spokesman for dot-mobi and mTLD said: "Some sites are optimised for mobile users but others are not. The new dot-mobi domain is supposed to solve this problem. The idea is that users will know that if... [24 May 2006]
Icann tests global domain names
News Earlier this month the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry announced the creation of a new set of domain names - dot-cn, dot-com and dot-net - written in Chinese... [17 Mar 2006]
'No link' between IT job losses and offshore outsourcing
News The report comes in the same week that a study by US IT industry body the Association of Computer Machinery also claimed offshore outsourcing has not hit IT jobs, citing the fact there are more jobs now than at the height of the... [03 Mar 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... [02 Mar 2006]
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. A new resolution... [19 Oct 2005]
US moves to keep control of net names
News In a letter to Commerce and State Department officials, the lawmakers said the Bush administration should retain strong oversight over the internet domain name system, specifically the root servers that guide traffic to huge databases... [10 Oct 2005]
VeriSign splurges $2.3m on Weblogs.com
News VeriSign, which operates the internet registry for dot-com and dot-net domains, is the latest large industry player to announce a blog-related acquisition. VeriSign has acquired... [10 Oct 2005]
