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ICANN still rules the Net

As expected, the US Commerce Department has extended for one more year its contract with the... Read more

23 September, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

US voices openness to private Net control

...its historic control of the Internet domain name system after all, a US Commerce Department official said on Wednesday. Despite bold statements last year that... Read more

27 July, 2006 by Anne Broache

Head of internet-oversight group to step down

...to help with the transition. His announcement comes just months before the US Commerce Department's oversight of Icann expires. The organisation will become completely... Read more

3 March, 2009 by Stephanie Condon

UN summit reopens debate over control of the net

...the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, that the US Commerce Department announced a few weeks ago sufficient to allay international concerns... Read more

27 October, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

ICANN hands VeriSign new monopoly on .com

...deal is not final yet. It has to be approved by the US Commerce Department, and some members of Congress are already urging that it... Read more

2 March, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

Spending outlook brightens slightly

...of 20 IT vendors, along with IT investment data reported by the US Commerce Department for the fourth quarter of 2003. Forrester predicted computer hardware... Read more

30 March, 2004 by Ed Frauenheim

UN examines potential Net regulation role

...are groups such as the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the US Commerce Department, which fear that greater UN involvement will unleash the world... Read more

26 March, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

Sun coughs up for export charges

...has agreed to pay $291,000 (£166,300) in fines to settle US Commerce Department charges that the server maker violated rules in exporting equipment... Read more

17 December, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

DVDs marry imperfectly with drives

...The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a division of the US Commerce Department's Technology Administration, said its tests proved DVDs and DVD... Read more

5 December, 2003 by Paul Festa

Sun's storage faring better than servers

...it's in negotiations to settle previously disclosed charges brought by the US Commerce Department that Sun violated export regulations -- charges that could mean monetary... Read more

15 May, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

Does anybody really know what time it is?

...as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the US Commerce Department -- comes in. It operates those 14 time servers to synchronise... Read more

8 July, 2002 by David Coursey

Rijndael gets first commercial backing

...the fundamental building block for the next generation of cryptographic technologies. The US commerce department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) chose Rijndael... Read more

3 October, 2000 by Will Knight

Crypto compromise a lawyers' delight

...and the FBI who are unwilling to give up the ghost." The US Commerce Department has long held tight restrictions on the export of strong... Read more

14 January, 2000 by Kevin Poulsen

Network Solutions agrees to domain deal

Settling a long-running dispute, Network Solutions and the US Commerce Department agreed on a deal that lets the company retain control... Read more

29 September, 1999 by ZDNet

US to ease encryption rules

...companies and nongovernment users after a one-time technical review by the US Commerce Department. In addition, these officials said, companies could sell specialised, custom... Read more

16 September, 1999 by John Simons

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