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Icann opens a can of worms
News The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned. On Thursday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann)... [30 Jun 2008]
Angry SMEs hit out at troubled ISP
News Customers of hosting company 1&1 Internet have been plagued by email difficulties.sells services such as web-hosting, domains, servers and email to many small UK businesses. However, further technical... [22 Jan 2007]
Open source alliance forged over Linux standards
News It has expanded into various other technical domains but in 2006 scaled back operations. But it's possible the foundation could be stronger than the separate groups it replaces, said Ideas International... [22 Jan 2007]
US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?
News In addition to asserting its plans to retain control over the internet's "root", the master file that lists what top-level domains are authorised, the Bush administration said it planned to maintain its supervision over... [17 Aug 2006]
Is this the end of the techie?
News And employers should develop growth paths and career opportunities for these four domains of expertise. Good technical skills won't be enough for workers who want to hold onto their jobs in IT, as staff... [11 Nov 2005]
US keeps keys to internet domain names
News At the moment, the US government maintains control of the internet's "root" - the master file that lists which top-level domains are authorised - but has indicated in the past that it would transfer that responsibility... [01 Jul 2005]
Anti-spam proposals get the nod
News The experimental Requests for Comment (RFCs) - Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in E-Mail and Sender ID: Authenticating E-Mail - have been the subject of intense jockeying by AOL, Microsoft... [30 Jun 2005]
Porn lovers get .xxx domain
News The non-profit organisation responsible for internet addresses has approved dot-xxx domains, a move that reverses the group's earlier position and heads off a potential political spat... [02 Jun 2005]
Sun and Microsoft make software together
News Next up will be co-operation in a number of other domains: storage software and hardware; unified systems management; web services standards for messaging and event-tracking; and Windows terminal... [16 May 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 creation of a European top level domain,... [24 Mar 2005]
Anti-spam email "caller ID" gets Microsoft backing
News A recent crop focuses on the idea that ISPs could publish the range of internet protocol (IP) addresses associated with their email domains. Technical proposals abound for fixing the... [26 May 2004]
'Villainous' VeriSign to sue Icann
News A focus of VeriSign's brief, which lists 43 pages of grievances, is the controversial and currently suspended Site Finder service, which redirected expired or nonexistent dot-com and dot-net domains to... [27 Feb 2004]
Microsoft wins 'HTML application' patent
News This relaxed security allows an HTML author to do things such as: read from a user's local computer; write to a user's local computer and perform scripting of frames between domains.... [11 Dec 2003]
Anti-spam standards pushed by internet body
News Wong said sender verification systems would have to work in conjunction with some type of reputation system that would help recipients recognise known spammers' domains. Once you have reputation systems that work on the... [27 Oct 2003]
VeriSign flogs off Network Solutions
News When it was active, Site Finder added a "wild card" for .com and .net domains that snared queries to nonexistent Internet sites and forwarded them to VeriSign's own servers. On Wednesday, the company... [17 Oct 2003]
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