domain names dot -com
Domain name showdown to kick off down under
News But the company has already been approached by a number of European companies and domain registrars and claims European users can expect full access to names such as dot-mp3, dot-shop and dot-xxx by the end of the year. [07 Mar 2001]
16 March: The most important day in e-tail history?
News On 16 March businesses outside China will be able to register dot-cn domain names for the first time ever - providing Western e-tailers the opportunity to gain access to the country's vast and rapidly growing online population. [10 Mar 2003]
VeriSign suit not about 'control of the internet' says ICANN chief
News The main resolution gave the go-ahead for ICANN to press ahead with the process of finding a "successor operator" for the dot-net domain by June - ahead of the original contract with VeriSign, signed in 2001, expiring. [08 Mar 2004]
UK's 'worst' spammer banged up
News Francis-Macrae was accused of defrauding thousands of people by tricking them into sending him money to register a dot-eu domain name on their behalf. Francis-Macrae was arrested after threatening Nominet UK, the registry that controls the dot-uk... [17 Nov 2005]
Dot-shop: Is it just a dot-con?
Comment But there is one set of people who are bound to benefit from this - it's just a shame new.net didn't set up "dot-lawyer" domain for them. Who'd have thought that the GNP of Tuvalu, a tiny pacific kingdom reliant almost totally on selling colourful... [07 Mar 2001]
VeriSign enforces the Icann't party line
Comment Last month, it gave VeriSign control of the dot-com domain database - effectively a cash cow, which they can freely milk for the next six years. Why not a special domain for hate sites - dot-sux, perhaps. [25 May 2001]
Brussels and Geneva deciding what things are called - even on the web?
Comment In a separate move, European politicians spelled out plans to create a veto list of politically embarrassing dot-eu domains. At the beginning of the week WIPO told us it would be widening its dispute procedure to include the names of international... [06 Sep 2001]
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