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News Less than two weeks before a United Nations summit on the internet begins, technology firms including Google, IBM and Microsoft are supporting the Bush administration's efforts to maintain the United States' influence over domain names.
[04 Nov 2005]
News A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over internet domain names. Instead of reaching a consensus, the nations participating in the discussions listed four possible options...
[18 Jul 2005]
News A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the internet. But he ventured even further by warning that if governance functions...
[19 Oct 2005]
News The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunis, Tunisia, have inked a broad agreement on global internet management that will preclude any dramatic showdown this week. By signing the statement, the Bush administration...
[16 Nov 2005]
News The European Union and other nations demanded the US share responsibility for the DNS, including decisions over adding and deleting new top-level domains, with the United Nations. China has announced it is creating a new set of domain names based...
[02 Mar 2006]
News On Thursday, the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union held a "workshop on internet governance" in Geneva. VeriSign on Thursday sued the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) in federal court in Los Angeles...
[01 Mar 2004]
News On Thursday, the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) held a "workshop on Internet governance" in Geneva. A long-simmering dispute between the two organisations that control the way internet domain names and addresses are run...
[27 Feb 2004]
News If it backs down, Icann could be perceived as bowing to political interference - but if not, it could alienate government officials just as the United Nations is becoming more interested in taking over key internet functions.
[16 Aug 2005]
News Dyson - a founder chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) - told a debate in London that the United Nations is taking the wrong approach to internet regulation. The question of how we stop spam is much different...
[27 Sep 2004]
News The websites including azzam.com, azzam.co.uk, qoqaz.net, and qoqaz.co.uk, tout the virtues of jihad, primarily against the West and allied nations. The name "Azzam" - which appears in the websites' domain names - apparently refers to Abdullah...
[21 Jul 2006]
News Just days before the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society begins in Tunis, Tunisia, watchdog groups are reporting clashes with authorities and violence toward at least one journalist in the North African city of about...
[15 Nov 2005]
News The European Union and other nations are demanding that the US share responsibility for the domain name system, including decisions over adding and deleting new top-level domains, with the United Nations.
[10 Oct 2005]
News Thursday's announcement also represents an effective snub to a United Nations process that is set to culminate in a summit in Tunisia in November. But the more assertive tack promises to vex nations such as Brazil and Pakistan, which have been...
[01 Jul 2005]
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