domain names us government numbers of the internet
US to keep hold of Icann until 2011?
News The US government this week renewed its contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), effectively extending its grip on the administrative body that co-ordinates net addressing until up to 2011. [17 Aug 2006]
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... [18 Sep 1998]
Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator
News If ratified, Coleman's resolution would assure the Bush administration and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) of political support on Capitol Hill during the negotiations at the World Summit on the Information Society. [19 Oct 2005]
US bids to hold on to net
News It's designed in part to provide other nations with a forum to debate alternatives to the current form of internet governance, which is heavily influenced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)--a California nonprofit... [04 Nov 2005]
Analysis: The new Internet order
Comment Stefferud, who now runs a network management consultancy in the US, suggested that three councils be set up to cover Internet protocols, IP numbers and IP names. Agencies that administer the domain names for individual countries should form an Iana... [13 Aug 1998]
Icann still can
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]
Stamp out dodgy domain registration, Icann told
News Smith concluded that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the standards body for internet domain names, is failing to "weed out such fraudulent identifications". More than eight per cent of all internet domain names are... [08 Dec 2005]
Google sets up as domain registrar
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a nonprofit based in Los Angeles, has deemed Google a domain name registrar, according to the search company. Rival registrars that make a business of selling domain names are... [02 Feb 2005]
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... [25 Sep 2003]
Icann: "Disorganised, ineffective, understaffed and underfunded"
News Stuart Lynn, president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), listed its accomplishments, then added: "Icann is still not fully organised, and it is certainly not yet capable of shouldering the entire responsibility of... [25 Feb 2002]
German registrar deletes US website
News Joker.com's dealings with its customers are basically governed by the usual rules that govern business dealings," said a spokeswoman for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which licenses registrars including Joker.com. [12 Feb 2003]
Icann gets US government seal of approval
News The US government has approved the Internet's new ruling body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). In a memorandum of understanding, the two parties have agreed to develop a framework for competition between domain name... [25 Nov 1998]
VeriSign granted dot-com til 2012
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]
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... [06 Nov 1998]
Icann's price hike raises industry ire
News Icann - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - grew out of a US government operation to run a directory of all the top level domains names (TLDs), which are used in every internet address. [28 Feb 2002]
Keep updated for stories matching domain names us government numbers of the internet via RSS
