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Virtual red light district still in limbo
News The fate of the highly controversial dot-xxx internet domain will not be decided until "a future date", a representative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (Icann), which oversees domain names, said on Friday. [19 Sep 2005]
'Villainous' VeriSign to sue Icann
News The suit, filed in the central district of California, claims that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has transformed itself over the last six years from a modest technical coordinating body into the "de facto... [27 Feb 2004]
What's in a name? ICANN and the Net name game
Comment At its most recent meeting on 26 August in Santiago, Chile, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a policy designed to break the back of domain name lawsuits. An awful lot of big companies are suing over domain... [06 Sep 1999]
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 domain names ending in whatever they like. [27 Jun 2008]
Representatives turn the heat up on Cerf
News Cerf, one of the founders of the internet and chairman of Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), said last year's launch of new domain names was "essentially an experiment" and that it was essential to move slowly to see... [09 Feb 2001]
Icann getting heavy with VeriSign
News Icann is giving VeriSign 15 days to correct the problems or face the prospect of losing its ability to sell domain names. Of the 150 domain name companies, VeriSign is the most popular, registering .com, .net and .org domain names. [04 Sep 2002]
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 tabs on "Whois" registry information, and for... [17 Aug 2006]
NSI under pressure to change domain registration policy
News But the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - the organisation responsible for introducing competition into the domain naming market - is now insisting that NSI stops offering credit, as it puts other registrars coming into... [22 Jul 1999]
Icann still can
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) was granted another extension to oversee the administration of domain names - the third expansion of an agreement originally struck in 1998. [23 Sep 2002]
Whois database 'contributes to fraud and ID theft'
News When an internet domain is registered, the details of the owner are entered into the Whois database and published by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN is a non-profit organisation set up in 1998 to centrally... [07 Nov 2003]
VeriSign criticised over accents and foreign characters
News The system, which will enable non-English/ASCII characters to be included in domain names, has been attacked by industry watchers who warn that the use of such characters currently has no standard classification. [27 Feb 2001]
Dot-mobi land grab underway
News On Monday, Mobile Top Level Domain, the company put in charge by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers last summer of allocating the domain names, opened initial domain name registration. [24 May 2006]
Stamp out dodgy domain registration, Icann told
News Smith concluded that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the standards body for internet domain names, is failing to "weed out such fraudulent identifications". More than eight per cent of all internet domain names are... [08 Dec 2005]
VeriSign drops Site Finder
News Site Finder, introduced 15 September, includes a "wildcard" feature that redirects all misspelled or unassigned .com and .net domain names to a search page owned by VeriSign. Before that, requests for nonexistent, reserved or inactive domain names... [06 Oct 2003]
Will .net fees rise after 2006?
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the not-for-profit organisation responsible for internet addresses, quietly agreed to lift wholesale price restrictions on dot-net registry fees last month when it renewed a contract... [11 Jul 2005]
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