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Hackers strike at the heart of the internet

News The attack appears to have focused on the domain name system (DNS), which maps text-based domain names to the actual numeric IP addresses of servers connected to the... [07 Feb 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,... [05 Dec 2006]

Dot-mobi land grab underway

News On Monday, Mobile Top Level Domain, the company put in charge by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers last summer of allocating the... [24 May 2006]

US bids to hold on to net

News Less than two weeks before a United Nations summit on the internet begins, technology firms including Google, IBM and Microsoft are supporting the Bush administration's efforts to maintain the United States' influence... [04 Nov 2005]

Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator

News At the heart of this international political spat is the unique influence that the US federal government enjoys over internet addresses and the master database of top-level domain... [19 Oct 2005]

Will .net fees rise after 2006?

News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the not-for-profit organisation responsible for internet addresses, quietly agreed to... [11 Jul 2005]

Porn lovers get .xxx domain

News In an interview last year, Lawley said that dot-xxx domain names would cost around $75 and come with no restrictions except that any sexually explicit content feature only adults. The... [02 Jun 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... [24 Mar 2005]

Google sets up as domain registrar

News Google has become accredited to register and sell web addresses under the governing body of domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned... [02 Feb 2005]

VeriSign and Icann: Operating "protection racket"?

News VeriSign counters that it is fed up to the back teeth of being mithered by requests for dead and dying domain names and is favouring a system whereby internet ambulance chasers pay a fee... [02 Mar 2004]

Icann "disappointed" in VeriSign

News The lawsuit comes as Icann's control of Internet addresses and domain names - it is tasked with adding new ones such as .museum and .biz - is being challenged. VeriSign... [01 Mar 2004]

'Villainous' VeriSign to sue Icann

News A long-simmering dispute between the two organisations that control the way internet domain names and addresses are run has spilled out into the public... [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 dot-com handover backed by court ruling

News A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction filed against Icann, the organisation that oversees internet domain names and addresses. VeriSign, which has a... [17 Nov 2003]

Whois database 'contributes to fraud and ID theft'

News ICANN is a non-profit organisation set up in 1998 to centrally manage internet domain names, IP addresses and other technical matters. When an internet... [07 Nov 2003]

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