domain names internet corporation addresses
Management of Internet Domain Names and Addresses
White Paper The Green Paper proposed certain actions designed to privatize the management of Internet names and addresses in a manner that allows for the development of robust competition and facilitates global participation in Internet management. [24 Feb 2004]
'Villainous' VeriSign to sue Icann
News A long-simmering dispute between the two organisations that control the way internet domain names and addresses are run has spilled out into the public domain, after VeriSign filed a lawsuit claiming it had unlawfully been prevented from adding... [27 Feb 2004]
Icann dot-com handover backed by court ruling
News A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction filed against Icann, the organisation that oversees internet domain names and addresses. VeriSign, which has a government-granted monopoly as the main database administrator for .com and .net... [17 Nov 2003]
Google sets up as domain registrar
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]
VeriSign told to pull '404' redirect service
News The agency that oversees internet domain names has asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend a new service that redirects web surfers to its own site when they seek to access unassigned web addresses, rather than return an error message. [22 Sep 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]
VeriSign and Icann: Operating "protection racket"?
News VeriSign counters that it is fed up to the back teeth of being mithered by requests for dead and dying domain names and is favouring a system whereby internet ambulance chasers pay a fee to be put on a waiting list and, when a domain expires, get... [02 Mar 2004]
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]
Yahoo! looking to buy Chinese web address venture
News and 3721 come as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the net's supervising body, is studying whether to add suffixes in non-Roman character sets to its domain name database. will add a business for selling domain names in China... [21 Nov 2003]
Key internet server gets relocated for security reasons
News The servers translate the domain names into their numeric equivalents, or Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Root servers store information that lets net users get around by way of easy-to-remember domain names, such as Amazon.com, and spares them... [08 Nov 2002]
Possible union for phone and IP addresses
News The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) argues that as the Internet and telecommunications industries become increasingly merged, it will become necessary to harmonise domain names, IP addresses and telephone numbers. [08 Sep 1999]
Icann ruling opens up domain name market
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]
VeriSign criticised over accents and foreign characters
News Companies are being advised to wait for verification from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) before paying for such internet addresses. The system, which will enable non-English/ASCII characters to be included in domain... [27 Feb 2001]
NSI under pressure to change domain registration policy
News Until recently, Network Solutions Inc (NSI) was the only organisation authorised to register .com, .net and .org addresses, and currently allows companies and individuals to hold domain names for long periods of time without paying - in effect... [22 Jul 1999]
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]
Keep updated for stories matching domain names internet corporation addresses via RSS
