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Consensus finally reached over Internet authority

News Network Solutions (NSI) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana), yesterday published by-laws for an organisation called the Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). Despite fears that the Internet would remain forever...

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[18 Sep 1998]

Analysis: The new Internet order

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.

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[13 Aug 1998]

VeriSign settles deception case

News Network Solutions, which the US government originally awarded monopoly oversight over the issuance of domain names, now shares those responsibilities with dozens of competitors. VeriSign has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission...

Tags: federal trade commission, charges, ftc, verisign

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[25 Sep 2003]

Online porn set for dedicated domain name

News In his application to Iana (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which controls top-level domain names, Olin offered to set the servers up himself. But new domain names are likely to be on the agenda of its replacement, Icann, later this year.

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[08 Apr 1999]

Net pioneer Jon Postel dies

News Postel helped to found many of the organisations which have been crucial to the development of the Net, but was best known for his work with Iana, the agency contracted by the US government to coordinate the Internet's address system, domain names...

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[19 Oct 1998]

Programmer posts hundreds of children's details online

News The database development was outsourced by the government authority to a local firm, who in turn hired the contractor, who himself subcontracted the work to another coder via the rentacoder.com website.

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[10 Feb 2004]

EC gives seal of approval to Net names authority

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...

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[06 Nov 1998]

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...

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[27 Jul 1998]

iTunes 'cybersquatting' row threatens Nominet authority

News Despite Nominet's claim on its website that it is "officially recognised as the .uk domain name registry by the internet industry, users and the UK government", the DTI said it does not officially recognise Nominet as the sole registrar of .uk...

Tags: nominet, cybersquatting, itunes

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[27 May 2005]