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VeriSign granted dot-com til 2012
News The US government has approved a much-debated deal which grants internet domain name registrar VeriSign control over the dot-com domain until 2012. The National Telecommunications and... [05 Dec 2006]
Microsoft readies Office Live for free UK trial
News Office Live Basic includes a company domain name, 25 2GB email accounts, instant messaging, an online calendar and a website with 500MB of file storage space. Microsoft will launch the free beta version... [15 Nov 2006]
RIP easyMobile: No frills no longer
News Customers who still have credit remaining in their account will have it refunded and those who don't close their accounts will be offered the option of switching to accounts with Fresh, Carphone Warehouse's MVNO, which was forced to give... [14 Nov 2006]
Spamhaus beats off the lawyers
News In a court statement, Judge Kocoras said: "The suspension would cut off all lawful online activities of Spamhaus via its existing domain name, not just those that are in contravention of this court's order. [23 Oct 2006]
Mobile web domain up for grabs
News Registrations for the dot-mobi domain name open to the public on Tuesday. There is still some debate however about whether the new domain name is necessary. Until now,... [25 Sep 2006]
Firefox lover owns IE7.com
News Microsoft may be on the verge of releasing the latest version of its Internet Explorer web browser but it has been beaten by a competitor to the use of the IE 7 domain name. A check with Register.com... [04 Sep 2006]
US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?
News The new contract between the not-for-profit organisation and the US Department of Commerce covers technical functions related to the internet domain name system (DNS) and is scheduled to go into effect... [17 Aug 2006]
dotMobi to auction top-drawer names
News dotMobi, the company behind the newly launched mobile top level domain, has revealed more details on when enterprises and Joe Public can get their hands on a domain name. According to... [16 Aug 2006]
Registrar accused over dot-eu stash
News If they find someone to pass the domain name to there's nothing we can do. A registrar and reseller of dot-eu domain names has denied accusations his business has operated unfairly by... [09 Aug 2006]
Microsoft: Another busy Patch Tuesday
News Another of this month's flaws that could be exploited without any user interaction lies in the Windows Domain Name System (DNS) client, which is used to help translate URLs into numerical IP addresses. [09 Aug 2006]
Dot-eu 'warehousing' scandal strikes US registrars
News EURid communications manager Patrik Linden said on Monday: "As a registrar, you should have an end user ask you to register a domain name for you before you can register it. EURid, the organisation that... [25 Jul 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... [21 Jul 2006]
easyGroup wins easy.com fight with Easynet
News URL-hungry easyGroup has won the right to trademark its easy.com domain name after a legal tussle with Sky's ISP arm Easynet. Easynet dropped its suit before the case came to court, however, and... [19 Jul 2006]
Dot-com domain price hike sparks angry debate
News The agreed-upon percentage increase means that the most dot-com fees would rise between now and 2012 is $1.86, given the current wholesale dot-com domain name rate of $6, Icann general counsel John... [08 Jun 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. The five millionth domain... [25 May 2006]
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