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ICANN extends deadline for domain applications

...primary governing body to extend the deadline for applications for new generic top-level domains. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced... Read more

13 April, 2012 by Steven Musil
Marlinspike: Certificates have 'real problems'

Marlinspike: Certificates have 'real problems'

...centralised organisations that are either controlled by nation states through the cc top-level domains or by organisations that happen to be in the purview... Read more

16 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

ICANN pushes ahead with generic domains launch

...ICANN's launch of applications for generic top-level domains will go ahead on Thursday, despite objections from US regulators... Read more

9 January, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Police take down illegal drug websites

...level domain (gTLD) registrars, to take down more than 12,000 generic top-level domains and sub domains. The PCeU have requested that Nominet suspends... Read more

30 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Icann preps cybersecurity facilities for top-level domains

...new cybersecurity facilities that will provide secure digital signatures for country-code top-level domains. The organisation, which administers the internet's addressing system, announced... Read more

23 June, 2011 by Vivian Yeo

ICANN prepares to reopen gTLD applications

ICANN will reopen the application system for generic top-level domains on Tuesday, the organisation said late last week. The body... Read more

21 May, 2012

ICANN offers refunds over gTLD system shutdown

ICANN, the body running registrations for the new generic top-level domains, has offered refunds to applicants who have been inconvenienced by... Read more

8 May, 2012

ICANN's domain name scheme attracts 100 registrants

...domains beyond the likes of .com and .edu. The expansion concerns generic top-level domains, or GTLDs. ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and... Read more

15 February, 2012 by Stephen Shankland

ICANN opens generic domain application process

ICANN has started to accept applications for new generic top level domains, which will include words for brands, and non-Latin characters... Read more

12 January, 2012

Is buying a .brand domain worth it? Nine questions to ask before you bid for .yourcompany

In three months Icann will accept applications for new top-level domains. Are you ready? At the start of next year, the... Read more

30 September, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Icann gives nod to Chinese characters, .xxx

...applications from countries in November, and in May, the first non-Latin top-level domains were given the green light, in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and... Read more

28 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

ICANN to reveal extent of data breach

...coordinator ICANN said on Friday that it would tell applicants for generic top level domains (gTLDs) whether their application details had been exposed by the... Read more

2 May, 2012
Beckstrom: I came to change Icann

Beckstrom: I came to change Icann

...Icann is gearing up for new generic top-level domains. Between January and April next year, governments and other organisations... Read more

24 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Icann to allow any word as a domain

...has announced. Photo credit: kjd/Flickr The decision to allow new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) was announced on Monday. Icann — the organisation that administers... Read more

20 June, 2011 by David Meyer

DNSSEC protocol kicks off in internet root zone

...be configured to recognise trusted key material, reducing the administrative burden on top-level domains. More top-level domains will be DNSSEC signed, said Karenberg... Read more

15 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

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