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.Org domain to get new guardian
News VeriSign's Network Solutions division has had custody of .org since the US government awarded it the contract for domain name administration a decade ago. ICANN, a nonprofit, private-sector corporation, was formed in 1998 with the mandate to...
[July 17, 2002, 15:05]
Australian domain registry bids for .org
News An Australian domain registry is looking to leverage its technical experience Down Under in a bid to win a tender with ICANN to become the registry for global top-level domain .org. AusRegistry is submitting a tender to the Internet Corporation for...
[July 9, 2002, 9:06]
.Org front runner named
News The Internet's governing body has recommended that the Virginia-based Internet Society (ISOC) take over the .org domain. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) issued a report Monday recommending the nonprofit ISOC over 10...
[August 21, 2002, 9:51]
ICANN names .org successor
News A nonprofit group of computer professionals has cleared the final hurdle to become the next operator of the .org domain. The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted 11-1 on Monday to endorse the...
[October 15, 2002, 9:29]
Domain names bounce back
News According to the Zooknic Internet Geography Project, a research venture that examines Internet use, the total amount of .com, .net and .org domain names grew by 128,874 in July. An increase in domain-name registrations is welcome news for...
[August 8, 2002, 15:04]
Icann's plan for .org branded 'unworkable'
News Plans to return the .org domain name to its non-profit roots are unworkable and could have enormous financial consequences for companies and individuals around the world, say Internet lawyers. The future of all domains registered under the .org top...
[March 9, 2001, 14:59]
VeriSign to lose control of .org
News VeriSign, the company that controls the database for the three big top level domain names, will lose control of the .org domain at the end of this year. In 1995, Network Solutions began charging $50 per domain name and today VeriSign receives a...
[March 1, 2001, 13:55]
News Roundup: Domain name plans under scrutiny
News Under a proposed deal with VeriSign, the company that now manages the .com, .net and .org domains after buying Network Solutions last year, all .org owners face losing their domain after December 2002 unless they can prove they are a non-profit...
[March 12, 2001, 11:46]
Wikileaks taken offline
Blog According to a press release from Wikileaks, which provides an anonymous, encrypted online document-hosting service for whistle-blowers, Wikileaks main site 'wikileaks.org' was taken completely offline by an order made by a Californian court to...
[February 18, 2008, 17:06]
Icann defers Verisign decision
News The .org domain is to revert to strictly non-profit Web sites, but the scheme for transferring ownership holds plenty of profit for two companies. The board instead resolved to finalise the matter in a conference call scheduled for 2 April, giving...
[March 13, 2001, 9:56]
Spamhaus domain name may be suspended
News The order, which is being considered by district judge Charles P Kocoras, proposed that ICANN — the body that controls key parts of the Internet including the .org domain — be ordered to suspend spamhaus.org as a domain name "until such time as...
[October 10, 2006, 14:45]
VeriSign: Are you the master of your domain?
News The company is the top reseller of .net, .com and .org domain names to the public through its registrar business, which comprised about 46 percent of VeriSign's revenues in the third quarter. The company is set to start selling a suite of services...
[December 7, 2001, 6:30]
Microsoft site hacking mystery
News The domain is only used to redirect visitors to the French and Dutch version of the Belgian site and isn't part of the Microsoft network. The domain is hosted by the Belgian company Guidance. The hack was discovered by the website Attrition.org.
[April 20, 2001, 13:04]
VeriSign buys .tv Web domain
News VeriSign will take over control of the .tv Web domain by buying .tv Corp. But each country also has its own top-level domain (.us for the United States, for example). The .tv domain is actually the country code for the South Pacific island nation...
[January 7, 2002, 15:39]
The low-down on domain name disputes
News All registrars in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains follow the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP). If someone has registered a domain name that you feel should belong to you, there are ways to get it back.
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
A Year Ago: Domain name plan resolved
News The U.S.government and the contractor in charge of parceling out the vast majority of Internet addresses now in use have reached an agreement for the handoff of the domain name system to the private sector, the Commerce Department said today.
[October 7, 1999, 7:30]
US Report: Domain name plan resolved
News WASHINGTON -- The U.S.government and the contractor in charge of parceling out the vast majority of Internet addresses now in use have reached an agreement for the handoff of the domain name system to the private sector, the Commerce Department...
[October 7, 1998, 11:27]
Lots of .biz-ness for Icann
News A single application for .web came from a consortium of 19 domain name registrars, which submitted an application under the name Affilias. The most TLDs, more than 100, were requested by domain name registrar Name Space.
[October 4, 2000, 13:03]
How to tweak Linux network files
News This file takes on the form of: domain nater.org nameserver 192.168.1.3 nameserver 192.168.1.4 search nater.org In the above entry, the domain is nater.org, and the primary and secondary DNS servers are listed.
[January 7, 2003, 8:56]
ICANN sites hijacked?
Blog Just a day after ICANN opened up domain rules, a Turkish group of hackers has messed with some of the Internet body's sites, according to a report on Zone-H. Which makes you wonder: Once businesses are able to use any domain suffix, as approved...
[June 27, 2008, 16:39]
