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A Year Ago: Network Solutions seizes Web directory

...consultation with the United States government." People trying to visit the popular "Internic" directory -- which checks the availability of a new Web address -- are being... Read more

24 March, 2000 by Ted Bridis

Making a smart deal for your domain name

Some people think that it's only recent that NSI's has been slow. Hah! They've always been that way. Read more

21 March, 2000 by Steven J.Vaughan Nichols

Domain monopoly's days are numbered

Ever since 1993, when the federal government decided it wanted to get out of the business of registering the names of new Internet sites, there has been just one place to go to register your domain name. Read more

13 April, 1999 by ZDNet

NSI annoys Internet administrators -- again

...gearing up for competition, annoyed many in the industry when it absorbed InterNIC (an public informational resource NSI maintains) into its own networksolutions.com domain... Read more

31 March, 1999 by Matthew Broersma

Network Solutions seizes Web directory

...consultation with the United States government." People trying to visit the popular "Internic" directory -- which checks the availability of a new Web address -- are being... Read more

24 March, 1999 by Ted Bridis
Anatomy of a hack attack

Anatomy of a hack attack

With the help of security experts we recreate a typical hack attack on two large organisations and walk through the steps the head of IT should follow in such a case Read more

7 January, 2008 by Sally Whittle

Microsoft's Web sites go down

Blackout across Microsoft's Web network Read more

24 January, 2001 by CNET

US Report: Domain name plan resolved

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government and the contractor in charge of parceling out the vast majority of Internet addresses... Read more

7 October, 1998 by Will Rodger

Fast-acting Webmasters limit impact of InterNIC snafu

Network Solutions Inc., also known as InterNIC, administers Internet domains such as .com, .gov and .net. The company's... Read more

18 July, 1997 by Margaret Kane and Renee Deger

Microsoft gears up monthly patch release

...it matters that much." Security professional and former chief security officer of InterNIC Richard Forno also highlights the large time between updates as a potential... Read more

11 November, 2003 by Patrick Gray

Protesters to Nike: Just hack it!

...technical and other contacts mentioned in the WHOIS at Network Solutions (formerly Internic) are no longer with the company, and the numbers listed therein are... Read more

22 June, 2000 by Bob Sullivan

Network Solutions agrees to domain deal

...authority in a signed contract. Give the Commerce Department control of the Internic Web site, a public-access entry point to the database of addresses... Read more

29 September, 1999 by ZDNet

'Bandits' grab Di URL

...like Althorp will be able to get them. A site search using InterNIC's Whois service showed that www.althorp.com was registered to an... Read more

14 January, 1998 by John Montavalli

Guy Kewney's Diary

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9 August, 1997 by Guy Kewney

Web surfers accidentally hit porn sites

...firm that doles out Internet addresses for the National Science Foundation and InterNIC, today confirmed they shut down nasa.com at the request of NASA... Read more

16 July, 1997 by Maria Seminerio

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