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News At the moment, the US government maintains control of the internet's "root" - the master file that lists which top-level domains are authorised - but has indicated in the past that it would transfer that responsibility to the Internet Corporation...
[01 Jul 2005]
News A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over internet domain names. Among the governance options put forward by the group were a continuation of the current system, creation of a...
[18 Jul 2005]
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]
News The MoU, designed to pave the way for an eventual shift away from US control, outlines more specific obligations for Icann, such as procedures for establishing new top-level domain names, for keeping tabs on "Whois" registry information, and for...
[17 Aug 2006]
News Meanwhile, Network Solutions - the US group responsible for the world's top-level domain names - admitted to delays in its registration process. Staying with domain names, German carmaker, Porsche, filed charges against 130 Web sites for infringing...
[17 Jan 2000]
News China has announced it is creating a new set of domain names based on Chinese characters. China has created three of its own top-level domains that will use the domain names dot-cn, dot-com and dot-net, in Chinese.
[02 Mar 2006]
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 The US House of Representatives is about to vote on a proposal that would criminalise the use of misleading domain names to lure unsuspecting people to sex sites. The amendment related to domain names is sponsored by Republican Mike Pence, and is...
[27 Mar 2003]
News Despite fears that the Internet would remain forever in the hands of the US government, two rivals for power have reached a consensus on how to manage top-level domain names. Board members will be nominated by supporting organisations specialising...
[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 Three new domain names have been ratified to help curb the increasing demand to launch new websites. The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) said at the conclusion of its quarterly meeting in Uruguay that '.museum,' '.coop...
[11 Sep 2001]
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. The study, released on Wednesday by the US General Accountability...
[08 Dec 2005]
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 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]
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]
News Rival registrars that make a business of selling domain names are speculating that the credentials will give Google a more powerful seat at the table with Icann, an internet government body, or a potential business opportunity down the road.
[02 Feb 2005]
News Zuccarini had been on the run for some time before his eventual arrest and had been sued several time previously for similar scams, after hijacking, among others, Dow Jones' and the US Baseball League's domain names.
[01 Mar 2004]
News Pope also claimed the industry's controlling body, Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), is also making life difficult for smaller companies. NSI has faced heavy criticism over its handling of the deregulation of the domain...
[01 Jul 1999]
News The board of directors of the not-for-profit group that oversees domain names said on Tuesday that it would delay a vote until its next meeting on 15 September. The move by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) was...
[17 Aug 2005]
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