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News VeriSign collects a few dollars a year for each domain name from the approximately 200 ICANN-accredited registrars that sell domain names to the public. Some of the key factors that spurred domain registrations and renewals include a spurt of...
[15 Sep 2004]
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 Centraal has developed the RealNames system - a method of domain naming based on 'real names' instead of complicated URLs. Internet company Centraal has announced a partnership with Germany's leading search engine, Fireball.
[11 May 1999]
News Icann, the standards body that oversees the internet addressing system, is to test Arabic, Chinese and other non-Roman characters in domain names. Earlier this month the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry announced the creation of a new set...
[17 Mar 2006]
News BT is enticing customers to its free ISP, BTconnect to Business, by offering free domain names to every small business that signs up. Small businesses will get a '[companyname].co.uk' address, email and web hosting services, along with web...
[09 Sep 1999]
Comment They were given the chance to start registering dot-cn domain names - the country specific suffix for China. Of course, the far-reaching dot-com domain has been powerful in the past but with any nascent market, such as China, there is always...
[17 Mar 2003]
News The UK government has started selling off the domain names from bankrupt companies. He said there should be different rules for domain names in contrast with other company assets. He added: "It's great to get these names freed-up and into the...
[14 Dec 2001]
News We've got some of the best names in the business trying to figure out how you would make it better if you were to create and run 'dot-com'," he said. Afilias has applied to run 'dot-info', 'dot-site' and 'dot-web', but according to Barrett the...
[03 Oct 2000]
News Capitalising on the disappointment of the seven new top-level domain names announced last year by governing body Icann, New.net is registering names such as dot-kids, dot-mp3, dot-shop and dot-xxx. New.net is not the first company to sell top-level...
[06 Mar 2001]
News Californian start-up New.net has marked its foray into European waters by releasing 10 extra domain names. New.net uses proprietary software to mask third level domain names, making them appear to the ordinary web surfer as a top-level address.
[19 Jun 2001]
whitepaper You can use this script to automate the collection of enterprise-specific domain names required for the customization of other admin scripts. This is a download of a script submitted by TechRepublic member Kevin Wood that automates the collection...
[19 May 2006]
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 Get ready for a flurry of new top-level internet domain names in 2008. Icann (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body responsible for allocating generic and country code top-level domain names - gTLDs and...
[14 May 2007]
News Icann, the body which controls the introduction of new domain names, has said it will approve a range of new suffixes during 2003. During 2002 the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) approved domains such as dot-biz, dot...
[16 Dec 2002]
whitepaper Ask any of the IT executives surveyed in a Compuware-commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, and that's exactly what they will answer. Application quality is essential in demonstrating the value IT organizations provide to the business.
[04 Aug 2006]
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 At its summit meeting in Yokohama, Japan, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has decided to make new top-level domains (TLDs) available, but the organisation does not yet know how many or which ones.
[17 Jul 2000]
whitepaper The Green Paper proposed certain actions designed to privatize the management of Internet names and addresses in a manner that allows for the development of robust competition and facilitates global participation in Internet management.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper The Internet is often described as a "network of networks" because it is not a single physical entity but, in fact, hundreds of thousands of interconnected networks linking millions of computers around the world.
[30 Aug 2005]
News Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body in charge of managing internet domains, has given the official go-ahead to the creation of a European top level domain, .eu.
[24 Mar 2005]
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