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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 right to raise... [05 Dec 2006]
China to set up its own 'splinternet'?
News China has created three of its own top-level domains that will use the domain names dot-cn, dot-com and dot-net, in Chinese. Geir... [02 Mar 2006]
Bush agrees web control pact with UN
News At issue in this dispute is the unique influence the US government wields over the master list of top-level domain names - such as... [16 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]
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]
VeriSign suit not about 'control of the internet' says ICANN chief
News The main resolution gave the go-ahead for ICANN to press ahead with the process of finding a "successor operator" for the dot-net domain by June - ahead of the original contract with VeriSign, signed in... [08 Mar 2004]
Disney-porn hook-up sends typosquatter to jail
News Typosquatting reached its peak in the heady days of the dot-com bubble, with organised criminals and a few get-rich-quick merchants playing on popular brand names and sloppy typing to... [01 Mar 2004]
Icann plans thwarted by US bill
News A pair of Washington state politicians, on behalf of a collection of companies that register domain names, said they intend to block a controversial procedure that would establish VeriSign as a central... [20 Jun 2003]
German registrar deletes US website
News Chuck Gomes, a vice president at VeriSign, which runs the dot-com registry, said he is not familiar with the Ogrish.com dispute but the transfer could be in the middle of the standard... [12 Feb 2003]
For sale: Dot-org domains, one careful owner
News Previous owner Verisign surrendered control of the domain in exchange for an extension to its control of the far more lucrative dot-com domains. The dot-org... [25 Jun 2002]
Dot-com domain control stays in VeriSign's hands
News Likewise, management of the dot-com registry will be opened to competition on 10 November 2007. It must hand over management of the dot-org registry to a not-for-profit organisation by... [03 Apr 2001]
Dot-com domain control up for grabs
News At issue is whether one single company - Verisign - will be allowed both to manage the registry and act as a registrar by selling the dot-com addresses on it. If Icann's board of directors rules against... [02 Apr 2001]
Icann funding plan angers national registrars
News The registrars behind country code domain names such as dot-uk and dot-fr are up in arms over a large bill from the Internet Corporation for Assigned... [04 Jul 2000]
Doctors take over Moldova
News According to the Financial Times, the Domain Name Trust has sold 8,000 dot-md names to date - 2,000 of which are already Web sites. US company, Domain... [21 Jan 2000]
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