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News The global domain name governing body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has announced the eighteen candidates shortlisted to stand in its October elections. The five successful candidates will join Icann's board in...
[07 Aug 2000]
Comment The issue of domain names is a thorny one. Many large companies failed to spot the moment when they should have been registering domain names and many were already taken by the time they had woken up.
[23 Jul 2004]
News A security weakness in a standard for handling special character sets in domain names could let an attacker spoof websites on non-Microsoft browsers, a researcher has warned. Security expert Eric Johanson said at the ShmooCon hacker convention last...
[08 Feb 2005]
News A company using "misleading" selling tactics to try and pressurise businesses into buying internet domain names has been forced to cease the practice after an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading.
[02 Dec 2003]
News China has announced it is creating a new set of domain names based on Chinese characters. 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.
[02 Mar 2006]
News Google has become accredited to register and sell web addresses under the governing body of domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a nonprofit based in Los Angeles, has deemed Google a domain name registrar...
[02 Feb 2005]
News The internet's governing body, Icann, is today facing a battle over domain names and a potential strike by the organisation that controls European web addresses. However, the real names movement may supercede the argument, freeing users from the...
[14 Jul 2000]
News A controversial ruling by Internet Corporation Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the body which oversees Web address allocation, has laid the foundation to open competition of domain name registration.
[05 Nov 1999]
News More than eight per cent of all internet domain names are registered with false or incomplete information, according to a US government study into the prevalence of phony websites. The study, released on Wednesday by the US General Accountability...
[08 Dec 2005]
News A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction filed against Icann, the organisation that oversees internet domain names and addresses. In a ruling released Thursday, a federal court in Los Angeles dismissed charges filed by two domain name...
[17 Nov 2003]
News Domain name registrar, Network Solutions, is facing court action in the US over its refusal to register domain names containing offensive words. A source close to the situation explained that the demand to register domain names incorporating...
[11 May 2000]
News Over five million new domain names were added to the internet in the third quarter of this year - the highest growth in registrations ever. The VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief found the total number of domain names registered topped 66.3...
[02 Dec 2004]
News UK companies may find it tricky to register generic dot-eu domain names during the sunrise period next year but there is a way around it if the continental approach is used. When the dot-eu domain goes live - expected to happen sometime late next...
[21 Oct 2004]
News Network Solutions' domain name servers were the target of yet another security breach yesterday when over 50 European companies were left without domain names. Domain name registration company WebDNS which has been monitoring the situation said...
[14 Apr 2000]
News Nominet - the central registry for all UK domain names - yesterday cut its two-year registration fee from £20 to £5. Many of the leading domain name registrars - which as members of Nominet are authorised resellers of the names - have confirmed...
[01 Sep 1999]
News All Internet users may soon have to pay up-front for registering domain names. Until recently, Network Solutions Inc (NSI) was the only organisation authorised to register .com, .net and .org addresses, and currently allows companies and...
[22 Jul 1999]
News Domain name registrar, Network Solutions, is facing court action in the US over its refusal to register domain names containing offensive words. A source close to the situation explained that the demand to register domain names incorporating...
[12 May 1999]
News Icann will take over responsibility for managing worldwide Internet domain names between now and September 2000. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is holding a public meeting in Berlin, Germany, this week.
[24 May 1999]
News VeriSign said on Monday that it would not abandon its decision to point unassigned domain names at its website, but representatives did say the company would form a technical committee later this week to look into the problems caused by the change.
[23 Sep 2003]
News is hosting thousands of fraudulent websites that have domain names containing the words "bank", "PayPal" or "eBay", according to a leading anti-spam group Spamhaus. is hosting almost 5,000 domain names using these words, many of which are linked to...
[06 Sep 2005]
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