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DNSSEC should prove toxic for cache-poisoners

DNSSEC should prove toxic for cache-poisoners

...or tampered with. For DNSSEC to become operational, all stages such as domain-name registrars and root nameservers need to sign the root. This procedure... Read more

4 June, 2010 by Axel Pawlik

European Net registrars boycott ICANN

European domain name registries including Nominet, which runs the popular .uk address system, are refusing to pay fees to ICANN Read more

18 January, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano

.me TLD to launch Thursday

Just had an email from one of my domain name registrars - apparently the .me top level domain will be opened up... Read more

15 July, 2008

VeriSign and Icann: Operating "protection racket"?

Eight domain-name registrars want to take them to court to prove it... VeriSign... Read more

2 March, 2004 by Jo Best

'Stamp out cybersquatting': summit gets off on wrong foot

Domain name registrars from 66 countries are meeting today in what is hailed... Read more

20 February, 2001 by Sonya Rabbitte

Alliance to champion top-level domain names

Nineteen of the world's largest domain name registrars have created an alliance to make web suffixes like 'dot... Read more

3 October, 2000 by Sally Watson

Nominet takes domain tasting off the menu

Nominet is taking action against domain-name registrars who opportunistically register domain names to assess how much money... Read more

7 August, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Registrar named in massive cybersquatting suit

A new US federal lawsuit charges that Dotster, one of the largest domain name registrars, has unlawfully participated in a massive cybersquatting campaign targeting companies... Read more

5 June, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

ICANN proposes new Net tax

...stabilise its annual budget, which was thrown into turmoil when scores of domain name registrars banded together this year to protest a near-doubling of... Read more

16 December, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

EC signs deal for '.eu' domain

...them on its Web site. EURid plans to limit the number of domain name registrars by only accepting those with a high annual turnover, though... Read more

14 October, 2004 by Matt Loney

Sex.com's original owner settles with VeriSign

...domain name registrants lost their valuable property due to the negligence of domain-name registrars," William Bode, an attorney at Bode & Grenier and general counsel... Read more

21 April, 2004 by Dawn Kawamoto

Waiting list wins ICANN approval

...happened in the case. The Wait Listing Service would work like this: domain-name registrars could make reservations for expiring .com and .net domains on... Read more

10 March, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

Registrar stumps up anti-VeriSign fund

...and a "Wait Listing Service" -- have riled competitors Go Daddy and other domain name registrars, which have formed a coalition to fire back at VeriSign... Read more

3 March, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

Court rules in favour of ICANN

...Thursday, a federal court in Los Angeles dismissed charges filed by two domain name registrars that alleged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers... Read more

17 November, 2003 by Jim Hu

Whois database 'contributes to identity theft'

A database publishing information about all Internet domain name holders is open to abuse and must be reformed, civil liberties groups have warned Read more

6 November, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

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