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Icann opens a can of worms
News Our clients didn't want the .eu domain name but they felt they had no choice," he told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk last week. The decision to allow custom top-level domains will... [30 Jun 2008]
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... [27 Jun 2008]
Spam surge emanating from the Far East
News In a report, Symantec noted a sharp spike in spam messages containing URLs that use dot-cn, the top-level domain (TLD) for China. There has been a significant rise in the amount of spam... [14 Aug 2007]
CIO Essentials: Vista, BBC iPlayer, BlackBerrys and spam
News This was the only truly innovative proposal for a new sponsored top-level domain (TLD) - dot-mail - but it has made no progress while other proposed TLDs have - for example dot-jobs and... [24 Jul 2007]
dotMobi hands out free domains for cities
News The dot-mobi top level domain (TLD) is intended to be used only for websites which adhere to a strict set of small-screen usability standards, such as having no frames or pop-ups. London... [11 Jul 2007]
New domain names on the horizon for 2008
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... [14 May 2007]
Euro domain racks up 2.5 million fans
News According to the European Union, dot-eu is now Europe's third most popular top level domain (TLD) and the seventh most popular globally. More than 2.5 million people and organisations... [11 Apr 2007]
Visa primes dotMobi for contactless m-payments
News Although the exact size of the investment has not been disclosed, it has secured Visa a seat on dotMobi's board of directors.dotMobi, launched last September, is responsible for the distribution of the dot-mobi... [29 Mar 2007]
Dot-gov safest domain around, says McAfee
News McAfee found no risky websites within the domain for US government agencies, it said in a report. In contrast, one in 10 sites that end in dot-tk, the domain for the tiny island of Tokelau, either spread... [13 Mar 2007]
dotMobi ramps up mobile content drive
News Free software tools are being offered to dot-mobi website developers to improve the quality of content behind the mobile top-level domain name.dotMobi, the industry group behind the... [06 Feb 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... [17 Aug 2006]
dotMobi to auction top-drawer names
News dotMobi, the company behind the newly launched mobile top level domain, has revealed more details on when enterprises and Joe Public can get their hands on a domain... [16 Aug 2006]
Registrar accused over dot-eu stash
News The accusation came from Andrew Hooper, a new father who recently wanted to take advantage of the new dot-eu top-level domain (TLD) to give his two-week-old son Christopher James a... [09 Aug 2006]
Dot-eu 'warehousing' scandal strikes US registrars
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... [25 Jul 2006]
3 signs Yahoo! to break down walled garden
News In May, the .mobi top level domain — which will be used for mobile-friendly sites — was launched. Mobile operator 3 has announced a deal with internet giant Yahoo! which will finally... [30 Jun 2006]
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