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VeriSign and Icann: Operating "protection racket"?
News The US registrars have apparently been doing a brisk trade in snapping up and reselling expired domain names - but they believe that Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and VeriSign's plan to create a 'waiting list' for... [02 Mar 2004]
Google sets up as domain registrar
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a nonprofit based in Los Angeles, has deemed Google a domain name registrar, according to the search company. Rival registrars that make a business of selling domain names are... [02 Feb 2005]
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]
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]
Icann getting heavy with VeriSign
News Of the 150 domain name companies, VeriSign is the most popular, registering .com, .net and .org domain names. Icann is giving VeriSign 15 days to correct the problems or face the prospect of losing its ability to sell domain names. [04 Sep 2002]
Domain names skyrocket - just don't mention the dot-com boom
News VeriSign collects a few dollars a year for each domain name from the approximately 200 ICANN-accredited registrars that sell domain names to the public. Some of the key factors that spurred domain registrations and renewals include a spurt of... [15 Sep 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]
VeriSign drops Site Finder
News listing of similar domain names to users who mistyped a domain name. 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. [06 Oct 2003]
'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]
VeriSign settles deception case
News VeriSign has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that the company's Network Solutions unit tricked consumers into registering internet domain names with its service. Network Solutions, which the US government originally awarded... [25 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]
Icann "disappointed" in VeriSign
News VeriSign on Thursday sued the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) in federal court in Los Angeles, claiming it was unlawfully prevented from adding new features to the domain name database it has a contract to run. [01 Mar 2004]
VeriSign holds firm on 404 scrap
News Icann is the nonprofit organization that oversees internet domain names. 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... [23 Sep 2003]
Icann gives green light to .travel and .jobs
News Icann, the group in charge of regulating top level domain (TLD) names, has approved two new TLDs — .jobs and .travel — to come on stream later this year. Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has ten applications on the go... [12 Apr 2005]
Sex.com case lands VeriSign in legal mire
News The decision puts domain names on the same footing as ordinary, tangible property and could ultimately be hugely influential in internet-related cases. Previously, the legal status of domain names has been uncertain, and Network Solutions has... [28 Jul 2003]
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