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News At the moment, the US government maintains control of the internet's "root" - the master file that lists which top-level domains are authorised - but has indicated in the past that it would transfer that responsibility to the Internet Corporation...
[01 Jul 2005]
whitepaper 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]
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]
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]
whitepaper Consequently, it is impor-tant that Japan actively participates in the dis-cussion in Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the private, nonprofit entity that manages domain names on an international level, and reflect the...
[24 Feb 2004]
News During 2002 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) approved domains such as dot-biz, dot-info and dot-name to ease the clamour for appropriate URLs, with many companies and hobbyists alike finding it difficult to find...
[16 Dec 2002]
News Three new domain names have been ratified to help curb the increasing demand to launch new websites. The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) said at the conclusion of its quarterly meeting in Uruguay that '.museum,' '.coop...
[11 Sep 2001]
whitepaper All registrars of domain names in the generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) are required by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers known as ICANN, a non-profit regulatory body) to provide a publicly accessible, searchable online...
[26 May 2006]
News A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over internet domain names. Among the governance options put forward by the group were a continuation of the current system, creation of a...
[18 Jul 2005]
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]
News Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body responsible for allocating generic and country code top-level domain names - gTLDs and ccTLDs respectively - is asking for public input on developing a new...
[14 May 2007]
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 A dispute over the cost of internet domain names has spilled over into the US Congress, where allegations of monopolisation and unreasonable price hikes surfaced in a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
[08 Jun 2006]
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]
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 In a ruling released Thursday, a federal court in Los Angeles dismissed charges filed by two domain name registrars that alleged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) had engaged in anticompetitive practices.
[17 Nov 2003]
News The fate of the highly controversial dot-xxx internet domain will not be decided until "a future date", a representative of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (Icann), which oversees domain names, said on Friday.
[19 Sep 2005]
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]
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]
News Cerf, one of the founders of the internet and chairman of Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), said last year's launch of new domain names was "essentially an experiment" and that it was essential to move slowly to see...
[09 Feb 2001]
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