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News 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 ccTLDs respectively - is asking for public input on developing a new...
[14 May 2007]
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]
News John Crain, chief technical officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which operates one of the main so-called root DNS servers, said: "It is an unusual large amount of traffic that is hitting DNS servers.
[07 Feb 2007]
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]
News Internet registrar Icann said earlier this month that it would not suspend the Spamhaus domain. Spamhaus, a leading UK anti-spam service, will continue to operate after a US court rejected an attempt to take it offline last week.
[23 Oct 2006]
News The US government this week renewed its contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), effectively extending its grip on the administrative body that co-ordinates net addressing until up to 2011.
[17 Aug 2006]
News It was responding to a recommendation from an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) committee to restrict use of the data to strictly "technical purposes". The official statement comes after an address by FTC commissioner John...
[28 Jun 2006]
News The dispute arises out of a lawsuit settlement reached on 1 March in which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) gave VeriSign the right to raise fees on dot-com domains by seven per cent annually.
[08 Jun 2006]
whitepaper All registrars of domain names in the generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) are required by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers known as ICANN, a non-profit regulatory body) to provide a publicly accessible, searchable online...
[26 May 2006]
News Internet regulator Icann has voted down a proposal to create a domain for adult websites. Despite ardent political interest in the issue, Paul Twomey, the chief of Icann, told the Associated Press the decision "was not driven by a political...
[11 May 2006]
News The 11-page measure would require the US Department of Commerce to work with Icann, the non-profit organisation that oversees domain names, to develop plans for a domain name system that would house material deemed "harmful to minors".
[20 Mar 2006]
News Icann, the standards body that oversees the internet addressing system, is to test Arabic, Chinese and other non-Roman characters in domain names. But people in Asian and Arabic countries, whose languages can contain thousands of characters, are...
[17 Mar 2006]
News The creation of Chinese character domain names has led to speculation that China could break away from Icann completely, and undermine the global unity of the DNS, the network of servers that resolves domain name requests.
[02 Mar 2006]
News Moniker.com operates out of Florida and although the state's reputation has been tarnished in recent years by strong associations with cyber crime, CEO Cahn is insistent his Icann-approved registrar is operating entirely within the law and the...
[11 Jan 2006]
News Smith concluded that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the standards body for internet domain names, is failing to "weed out such fraudulent identifications". The GAO said Icann is now requiring registrars to...
[08 Dec 2005]
News Attempts to create a domain name to handle adult online content faced an uncertain future on Friday after Icann abandoned plans to debate the issue. The proposal to create a dot-xxx domain was due to get final approval at an Icann board meeting in...
[02 Dec 2005]
News In addition, the internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the not-for-profit organisation created by the Clinton administration to oversee day-to-day management is located in Marina del Rey, California.
[16 Nov 2005]
News It's designed in part to provide other nations with a forum to debate alternatives to the current form of internet governance, which is heavily influenced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)--a California nonprofit...
[04 Nov 2005]
News Dot-mobi domain names are expected to become available from early 2006, with trademark holders the first to be allowed to register for URLs.mTLD officially won the right to administer the dot-mobi domain in July from Icann - the Internet...
[24 Oct 2005]
News If ratified, Coleman's resolution would assure the Bush administration and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) of political support on Capitol Hill during the negotiations at the World Summit on the Information Society.
[19 Oct 2005]
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