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News With the EU gearing up for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), it seems top of the agenda is who runs the internet - and whether current internet guardian, US-based Icann, should get the chop in favour of... [08 Jun 2005]
Porn lovers get .xxx domain
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) said it's working with the ICM Registry to finalise remaining details, meaning the porn-friendly set of dot-xxx domains should be available by the end of... [02 Jun 2005]
Hollywood wants to use BitTorrent, says Cerf
News Cerf, who co-created the original TCP/IP protocol suite and is currently chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), told a roundtable on internet governance in Sydney this week that he... [18 Apr 2005]
Icann warns regulators off VoIP
News Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) chairman Dr Vinton Cerf told an internet governance roundtable in Sydney that - in his personal opinion - it was easy to answer the question of how to regulate... [15 Apr 2005]
Icann gives green light to .travel and .jobs
News Icann, the group in charge of regulating top level domain (TLD) names, has approved two new TLDs — .jobs and .travel — to come on stream later this year. At the 22nd Icann International Conference in Mar... [12 Apr 2005]
VeriSign to keep control of .net?
News Icann, the international body that manages the domain name system, appears to be on track to hand VeriSign control of the .net top-level domain registry until the middle of 2011. Icann said that out of... [30 Mar 2005]
.eu is officially born
News Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body in charge of managing internet domains, has given the official go-ahead to the creation of a European top level domain, .eu. [24 Mar 2005]
Google sets up as domain registrar
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a nonprofit based in Los Angeles, has deemed Google a domain name registrar, according to the search company. With the papers, Google joins other internet... [02 Feb 2005]
German group bids to wrestle dot-net from VeriSign
News However, today internet naming body Icann's deadline closed for companies bidding to take over the running of the dot-net domains, which account for around five million internet addresses. Icann will now... [18 Jan 2005]
Ink finally dries on .eu domain deal
News EURid, which was created by the country-level registries of Belgium, Italy and Sweden, says it will now negotiate with ICANN to have .eu put in the root and, once that is done, intends to operate a 'sunrise' period for... [15 Oct 2004]
Icann signs off controversial budget
News Icann, the non-profit agency in charge of the internet's address system has gained approval for its controversial 2004 to 2005 budget, following months of acrimony between large registrars and their smaller competitors. [14 Oct 2004]
Who's deciding the future of the internet?
News Dyson - a founder chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) - told a debate in London that the United Nations is taking the wrong approach to internet regulation. When you concentrate... [27 Sep 2004]
Domain names skyrocket - just don't mention the dot-com boom
News Under a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), VeriSign operates the master database of all .com and .net domains. VeriSign collects a few dollars a year for each domain name from... [15 Sep 2004]
Free Iraq asks for its domain name
News Web regulator ICANN has confirmed that it has given Iraq details about the re-delegation process, but says its policy is not to comment on applications. ICANN is expected to hold preliminary discussions... [30 Jun 2004]
5 years ago... Icann slammed by net guru Pope
News 02.06.99: Global web naming group Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is failing to account for the interests of end users in its domain name reorganisation, according to a leading Internet guru. [02 Jun 2004]
