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New domain names on the horizon for 2008
News Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body responsible for allocating generic and country code top-level domain... [14 May 2007]
US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?
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... [17 Aug 2006]
Stamp out dodgy domain registration, Icann told
News Smith concluded that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the standards body for internet domain names, is failing to "weed... [08 Dec 2005]
Bush agrees web control pact with UN
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... [16 Nov 2005]
US bids to hold on to net
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... [04 Nov 2005]
US can't dominate domain names, says UN
News Among the governance options put forward by the group were a continuation of the current system, creation of a world body to address public policy issues stemming from the work of the Internet Corporation for... [18 Jul 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... [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. Google has... [02 Feb 2005]
Dot-eu domain name scramble timetable unveiled
News In the meantime, the consortium will finalise the contracts with Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) so that the dot-eu name will be integrated in the overall worldwide... [11 May 2004]
Icann "disappointed" in VeriSign
News VeriSign on Thursday sued the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) in federal court in Los Angeles, claiming it was unlawfully prevented from adding new features to the... [01 Mar 2004]
'Villainous' VeriSign to sue Icann
News The suit, filed in the central district of California, claims that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has transformed itself over the last six years from a modest technical... [27 Feb 2004]
Yahoo! looking to buy Chinese web address venture
News and 3721 come as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the net's supervising body, is studying whether to add suffixes in non-Roman character sets to its... [21 Nov 2003]
Icann to introduce more elite domain names
News During 2002 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) approved domains such as dot-biz, dot-info and dot-name to ease the clamour for appropriate URLs, with many companies and... [16 Dec 2002]
Key internet server gets relocated for security reasons
News That group, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), had recommended moving the J root server a year ago following terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and... [08 Nov 2002]
Icann still can
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) was granted another extension to oversee the administration of domain names - the third expansion of an... [23 Sep 2002]
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