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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]
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]
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]
Dot-com domain price hike sparks angry debate
News The settlement, approved by Icann's board by a 9-5 vote, ended a legal spat that started with VeriSign's controversial move to take control of all unassigned dot-com and dot-net domain names in 2003. The dispute arises out of a lawsuit settlement... [08 Jun 2006]
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. VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to... [06 Oct 2003]
Icann dot-com handover backed by court ruling
News VeriSign, which has a government-granted monopoly as the main database administrator for .com and .net domain names and addresses, recently has been sparring with Icann over the company's controversial "Site Finder" service, which snared traffic... [17 Nov 2003]
'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]
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]
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 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]
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 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. The settlement, made public Wednesday by the FTC, concludes... [25 Sep 2003]
Key internet server gets relocated for security reasons
News But VeriSign, which runs two of the net's 13 domain name service (DNS) root servers, said yesterday that the timing of the move was coincidental and that the measure was part of a general program to reduce security risks. [08 Nov 2002]
VeriSign slammed for .com spam aid
News There are already modifications to BIND software to take responses that contain that VeriSign address and turn it into a nonexistent domain error," Karl Auerbach, a veteran internet engineer and former board member of the Internet Corporation for... [17 Sep 2003]
Sex.com case lands VeriSign in legal mire
News The original owner of the sex.com domain name has won a landmark court victory, allowing him to sue VeriSign-owned registrar Network Solutions for transferring his domain to a conman. The appeals court ruling could bode ill for Network Solutions... [28 Jul 2003]
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