domain names on the internet
Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues
White Paper Computers connected to the Internet are identified by a unique Internet Protocol (IP) number that designates their specific location, thereby making it possible to send and receive messages and to access information from computers anywhere on the... [30 Aug 2005]
New domain names on the horizon for 2008
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]
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]
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]
US web stranglehold challenged
News A top UN official has called for changes to the way the internet is operated, taking aim at the US stranglehold on domain names and internet addresses. Speaking at the opening of a four-day UN summit in Athens Yoshio Utsumi criticised the current... [30 Oct 2006]
Nominet flirts with foreign characters
News In its consultation paper, Nominet said that now the user base of the internet is truly international, "it is widely believed that there is a need for domain names to go beyond these 37 characters. Nominet, the organisation which runs the .co.uk... [08 Jun 2005]
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]
Stamp out dodgy domain registration, Icann told
News More than eight per cent of all internet domain names are registered with false or incomplete information, according to a US government study into the prevalence of phony websites. Smith concluded that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names... [08 Dec 2005]
Icann tests global domain names
News Icann, the standards body that oversees the internet addressing system, is to test Arabic, Chinese and other non-Roman characters in domain names. Earlier this month the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry announced the creation of a new set... [17 Mar 2006]
Icann tests public opinion in Berlin
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]
Geneva meeting to appoint domain name authority
News The US government's decision to hand over control of Internet domain names - as promised in a recent white paper - has been put into action. According to chairwoman Dr Tamar Frankel, the meeting defined: "a rough consensus and guidelines to the... [27 Jul 1998]
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. Before that, requests for nonexistent, reserved or inactive domain names... [06 Oct 2003]
Hackers strike at the heart of the internet
News The attack appears to have focused on the domain name system (DNS), which maps text-based domain names to the actual numeric IP addresses of servers connected to the internet, and vice versa. John Crain, chief technical officer at the Internet... [07 Feb 2007]
Can Icann clarify dot-eu names?
Comment However, now Icann, the body controlling much rulemaking on the internet, is discussing the release of five new domain names just as likely to affect companies. However, domain name registrars will have to pay an advance fee of $50,000 and... [26 Aug 2000]
A Primer on Trademark Law and Internet Addresses
White Paper Quite a bit has been written in the recent past about trademark issues surrounding the registration and use of Internet domain names. This article examines these cases and presents a more complete primer on trademark and dilution law as it pertains... [03 Jul 2008]
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