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Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News At its meeting in Paris, Icann, a not-for-profit organisation that oversees the naming scheme for websites, voted to accept a proposal that will allow companies to purchase new top-level domain... [27 Jun 2008]
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, gave VeriSign the... [05 Dec 2006]
Democrats rekindle porn domain debate
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... [20 Mar 2006]
Icann tests global domain names
News Icann, the standards body that oversees the internet addressing system, is to test Arabic, Chinese and other non-Roman characters in domain names. Earlier this month the Chinese Ministry... [17 Mar 2006]
China to set up its own 'splinternet'?
News Geir Rasmussen, chief executive of Global Name Registry, a domain name registration organisation which oversees the dot-name domain, said: "Fragmentation is a concern both to Icann and... [02 Mar 2006]
Virtual red light district still in limbo
News The fate of the highly controversial dot-xxx internet domain will not be decided until "a future date", a representative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (Icann), which... [19 Sep 2005]
Icann delays .xxx porn vote
News The board of directors of the not-for-profit group that oversees domain names said on Tuesday that it would delay a vote until its next meeting on 15 September. The move by the Internet... [17 Aug 2005]
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. In a ruling released Thursday, a federal... [17 Nov 2003]
Whois database 'contributes to fraud and ID theft'
News In September, ICANN's Twomey noted that the group, which oversees domain name governance, already had convened a Whois workshop in June in an attempt to "advance work on Whois in a coordinated and... [07 Nov 2003]
VeriSign holds firm on 404 scrap
News Icann is the nonprofit organization that oversees internet domain names. VeriSign said on Monday that it would not abandon its decision to point unassigned domain... [23 Sep 2003]
VeriSign told to pull '404' redirect service
News The agency that oversees internet domain names has asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects web surfers to its own site when they seek to access unassigned web... [22 Sep 2003]
Icann getting heavy with VeriSign
News The organisation has a contract with the US government to approve web domain names, such as those ending in .info and .biz, and oversees policies to allow smaller companies to sell... [04 Sep 2002]
Icann ruling opens up domain name market
News A controversial ruling by Internet Corporation Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the body which oversees Web address allocation, has laid the foundation to open competition of domain... [05 Nov 1999]
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