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News The World Intellectual Property Organization ousted a record number of "cybersquatters" from websites with domain names referring to trademarked companies, foundations and celebrities in 2007. Of the remainder, in 85 per cent of cases, the panels...
[28 Mar 2008]
News The HTTP get-request redirects traffic flowing over the router to a specific IP address when the user attempts to access six domain names that are banking-related. Security company Symantec has warned of an attack involving the subversion of routers.
[25 Jan 2008]
News DotMobi (also known as mTLD), a consortium backed by operators, content providers and handset manufacturers, announced that the previously reserved names will be made available at no charge to the cities.
[11 Jul 2007]
News Lesley Cowley, chief executive of Nominet, said: "With six million domain names now registered and a large percentage of these linked to ecommerce, it's easy to see the importance of a .co.uk domain name to a business.
[09 Jul 2007]
News By restricting spammers to a limited set of domain names, however, Yahoo! s mail servers can automatically check PayPal's internet domain name listing to verify that the digital signature is valid and the message truly originated at Paypal.com.
[23 May 2007]
News Get ready for a flurry of new top-level internet domain names in 2008. Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body responsible for allocating generic and country code top-level domain names - gTLDs and...
[14 May 2007]
News Nominet - which administers dot-uk domain names - is collaborating with Oxford Brookes University to find methods to identify abuse of the domain name system (DNS) and registration data stored on its 'Whois' directory.
[26 Apr 2007]
News More than 2.5 million people and organisations have registered European Union domain names since dot-eu was opened to the public a year ago. The dot-eu domain names can be used by businesses and organisations based in the European Union, along with...
[11 Apr 2007]
News The distributed denial of service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) proved the effectiveness of the Anycast load-balancing system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) said in a document published last week.
[12 Mar 2007]
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 internet, and vice versa. John Crain, chief technical officer at the Internet...
[07 Feb 2007]
News Edwards added the tools are aimed at serving the natural development of the domain names, as companies work out exactly how they want to use them. Around 372,000 domain names have been sold to date. very simply because we're not about selling lots...
[06 Feb 2007]
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 fees on dot-com domains by...
[05 Dec 2006]
News A top UN official has called for changes to the way the internet is operated, taking aim at the US stranglehold on domain names and internet addresses. Speaking at the opening of a four-day UN summit in Athens Yoshio Utsumi criticised the current...
[30 Oct 2006]
News The suits revolve around more than 600 domain names. Microsoft may be on the verge of releasing the latest version of its Internet Explorer web browser but it has been beaten by a competitor to the use of the IE 7 domain name.
[04 Sep 2006]
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 tabs on "Whois" registry information, and for...
[17 Aug 2006]
News According to dotMobi the premium name list contains desirable domain names which include commonly used words. From 13 October, Joe Public will get access to buy the premium names. dotMobi, the company behind the newly launched mobile top level...
[16 Aug 2006]
News A registrar and reseller of dot-eu domain names has denied accusations his business has operated unfairly by stockpiling more than a thousand three-letter domain names and charging customers more than £1,000 to buy each one.
[09 Aug 2006]
News EURid, the organisation that administers the dot-eu top-level domain, has suspended 74,000 domain names after launching a lawsuit against 400 US registrars for "breach of contract". According to EURid, the three companies are a front for a...
[25 Jul 2006]
News The name "Azzam" - which appears in the websites' domain names - apparently refers to Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, who died in 1989 and is widely considered to have laid the foundation for the militant Islamic fundamentalist movement with which Osama bin...
[21 Jul 2006]
News Easynet dropped its suit before the case came to court, however, and easyGroup now owns both the .co.uk and dot-com URLs for easyTelecom.easyGroup has a long history of litigation over domain names, often confronting companies using an easy...
[19 Jul 2006]
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