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Icann opens a can of worms
News The attraction for cybersquatters is not going to be setting up a registry that matches someone else's brand; it will be in the generic TLDs. On Thursday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and... [30 Jun 2008]
Six-millionth dot-uk domain sold
News UK businesses setting up online are choosing dot-uk domains in preference to anonymous dot-com addresses, according to domain registry Nominet, which sold the six-millionth dot-uk domain... [09 Jul 2007]
Botnets beware: Nominet cleans up UK domains
News The dot-uk domain name registry has teamed up with university security experts to shield UK web users from abuse. Nominet - which administers dot-uk domain names - is... [26 Apr 2007]
US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?
News The MoU, designed to pave the way for an eventual shift away from US control, outlines more specific obligations for Icann, such as procedures for establishing new top-level domain names, for keeping... [17 Aug 2006]
easyGroup wins easy.com fight with Easynet
News Easynet had appealed a decision by the Trade Mark Registry to grant the easy.com trademark to easyGroup but lost its case in the High Court after the judge ruled the URL was sufficiently distinctive to merit its own... [19 Jul 2006]
Dot-com domain price hike sparks angry debate
News WG Mitchell, CEO of Network Solutions (which split from VeriSign in 2003), said: "I have no objection to VeriSign continuing to run the dot-com registry. A dispute over the cost of internet domain... [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. Now the world's fourth largest internet... [25 May 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]
iTunes.co.uk tug-of-war ends
News Ben Cohen, former teenage dot-com millionaire, has given up his fight to regain the iTunes.co.uk domain, according to dot-uk registry Nominet. The battle carries some basic procedural lessons for others... [23 Nov 2005]
UK's 'worst' spammer banged up
News Francis-Macrae was arrested after threatening Nominet UK, the registry that controls the dot-uk domain. He was also charged with sending fraudulent emails to companies claiming they had to pay a renewal... [17 Nov 2005]
Virtual red light district still in limbo
News Icann's board of directors considered an agreement for the proposed virtual red-light district at a Thursday meeting but decided against taking action, directing Icann staff to negotiate "additional contractual provisions" with ICM... [19 Sep 2005]
UK on web address buying spree
News According to domain name registry Nominet, there are now more than 4.2 million registered dot-uk web addresses. The registry said last year the number of dot-uk registrations averaged... [18 Aug 2005]
Icann delays .xxx porn vote
News The move by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) was expected after ICM Registry, the Florida company that plans to operate dot-xxx, agreed on Monday to a month's delay, saying... [17 Aug 2005]
Bush gives .xxx porn domain a red light
News Icann approved the concept of a dot-xxx domain in June and approval of ICM Registry's contract to run the suffix was expected this week. Jason Hendeles, founder of ICM Registry, said in... [16 Aug 2005]
.mobi: The internet in the palm of your hand
News The venture, known as the mTLD Top Level Domain, will look after the registry of addresses for the dot-mobi domain during the next 10 years with domain name... [11 Jul 2005]
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