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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]
News Google has become accredited to register and sell web addresses under the governing body of domain names. Rival registrars that make a business of selling domain names are speculating that the credentials will give Google a more powerful seat at...
[02 Feb 2005]
News At the heart of this international political spat is the unique influence that the US federal government enjoys over internet addresses and the master database of top-level domain names - a legacy of the internet's origins years ago.
[19 Oct 2005]
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 Board members will be nominated by supporting organisations specialising in protocols, domain names and Web addresses - and no more than two nominees will be US residents. Despite fears that the Internet would remain forever in the hands of the US...
[18 Sep 1998]
Comment Agencies that administer the domain names for individual countries should form an Iana Names Council that makes policy for generic domains such as .com, .net and .org, as well as their own country domains, he suggested.
[13 Aug 1998]
News The US government has approved the Internet's new ruling body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). Network Solutions (NSI) - a government agent - currently holds a monopoly on the .com, .edu and .net addresses.
[25 Nov 1998]
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) was granted another extension to oversee the administration of domain names - the third expansion of an agreement originally struck in 1998.
[23 Sep 2002]
Comment The DNS servers are used to connect domain names with numeric IP addresses (eg.of the various servers and networks that make up Microsoft's Web presence. Tuesday (PST), a Microsoft technician made a configuration change to the routers on the edge...
[26 Jan 2001]
News It provided names and contact details of site owners, facilitating a burgeoning trade in web addresses. In a 12-3 vote, the directors of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) allowed Verisign to continue its dual function...
[03 Apr 2001]
News The organisation has a contract with the US government to approve web domain names, such as those ending in .info and .biz, and oversees policies to allow smaller companies to sell domain names. Icann is giving VeriSign 15 days to correct the...
[04 Sep 2002]
News EC commissioner, Martin Bangemann has written to the US government to give his approval to the new Internet naming authority, Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). However, the EC has not yet given its support to the...
[06 Nov 1998]
News The decision follows a lawsuit settlement reached back in March, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which oversees the net's address infrastructure, gave VeriSign the right to raise fees on dot-com domains by...
[05 Dec 2006]
News He added that the problem will be exacerbated as the names are global rather than local addresses such as .co.uk. Rex Parry, head of International Property at Eversheds, said registration of names will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
[09 Jul 1998]
News The directors of Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will make the ruling. When Verisign bought US government backed registrar Network Solutions in 1999, it agreed to sell off either its registry services or its...
[02 Apr 2001]
News Icann, the US government organisation due to take over the management of global domain names later this year, has issued guidelines for companies wishing to compete with Network Solutions for the contract to handle registration of .com names.
[09 Feb 1999]
News The registrars behind country code domain names such as dot-uk and dot-fr are up in arms over a large bill from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). Icann is an industry-led consortium which has taken on management of...
[04 Jul 2000]
News Some countries, including open source fan Brazil and tech tiger China, would like to see governing body Icann, which currently regulates areas such as domain names distribution and IP addresses, is heavily US-dominated.
[10 Dec 2003]
News Until now, Internet domain names were the sole responsibility of Network Solutions (NSI), on behalf of the US government. Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, announced the appointments yesterday and will closely monitor...
[22 Apr 1999]
News According to chairwoman Dr Tamar Frankel, the meeting defined: "a rough consensus and guidelines to the future interim board which will organise the corporation that will deal with domain names, addresses, and identifiers at the Internet".
[27 Jul 1998]
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