- CNET NETWORKS UK BUSINESS SITES:
- atlarge.com
- BNET UK
- silicon.com
- SmartPlanet.com
- ZDNet.co.uk
81 stories on
Sort by: Date | Relevance
News Nominet, the organisation which runs the .co.uk domain, wants to know what you think about internationalised domain names containing foreign characters. Domain names within the .co.uk domain are currently limited to 37 core symbols - the letters A...
[08 Jun 2005]
News Other companies will now be able to offer registration services to global customers looking for domain names and will charge $6 instead of the $35 originally charged by Network Solutions. After years of protest over Network Solutions' stranglehold...
[28 Sep 1999]
News Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body in charge of managing internet domains, has given the official go-ahead to the creation of a European top level domain, .eu.
[24 Mar 2005]
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]
News The company responsible for dot-biz domain names is scrapping the way it currently allocates them and will start again from scratch in February. In cases where domain names were over-subscribed, NeuLevel planned to pick a winner at random, which...
[18 Dec 2001]
News Domain names can also be registered under dozens of country top-level domains such as .uk and .us. In late 2000, when the dot-com bubble had reached its bursting point and domain name registrations boomed, domain name expansion was considered an...
[13 Nov 2002]
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. There is a real commercial incentive for big companies...
[06 Sep 1999]
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]
Comment I have bought some domain names which relate to the UK arm (i.e.co.uk) of a multinational company. The company in question is now asking for these names to be transferred to them as they have just re-launched themselves under the new name we have...
[10 May 2000]
News The issue hinges on the management of the root server, the underlying database for the registration and management of domain names worldwide. Icann has threatened to freeze out several European countries unless they toe the line over domain name...
[09 Jan 2002]
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]
whitepaper The Domain Name System (DNS) provides a critical service to the Internet--the mapping between names and addresses. Many UNIX systems today are running versions of BIND 8.2, the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, that support the security extensions.
[24 Feb 2004]
News Capitalising on the disappointment of the seven new top-level domain names announced last year by governing body Icann, New.net is registering names such as dot-kids, dot-mp3, dot-shop and dot-xxx. New.net is not the first company to sell top-level...
[06 Mar 2001]
News They match domain names - such as www.silicon.com - with numerical internet addresses. He stressed that it didn't affect the company's core domain name system (DNS) services, but administrators had to work fast to get the attack blocked by the...
[26 Nov 2002]
News However Pope also said there are positive sides to the reorganisation which include the lowering of the registration fee from $75 to $18, and the general speeding up of the process which will benefit users and seekers of popular domain names.
[29 Apr 1999]
whitepaper The Domain Name System (DNS) and the IP address assignments have become the focus of urgent public policy debate due to a perceived scarcity of available names. But the crisis is artificial born of misunderstanding the nature and role of the DNS...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper Local Server-Less Domain Name System (LSLDNS), also known as multicast DNS, is a new capability in the IPv6 protocol that is provided with Microsoft Windows CE version 4.1 and later. LSLDNS provides a method to resolve names on an ad hoc, single...
[14 Mar 2005]
whitepaper The software that translates these names to network addresses is called the Domain Name System (DNS). To solve this dilemma, a system was developed whereby people can use "Friendly" names that are then translated automatically into IP addresses...
[23 Jun 2006]
whitepaper Wisconsin created the Domain Name System (DNS), which maps text names to IP addresses. The first solution to the problem was a simple text file maintained by the Network Information Center that mapped names to IP addresses.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper The Domain Name System (DNS) serves as the major telephone directory for the But Internet users prefer to use descriptive, easy to remember names instead of numbers. The purpose of the DNS is to translate human readable names into their counterpart...
[24 Feb 2004]
Sort by: Date | Relevance
Copyright ©1995-2008 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Top of page
