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ICANN Announces Domain Name Changes
Talkback The minutes from ICANN's meeting in Tunisia admit the most recent additions to the gTLD list "have faced significant acceptance problems. I know of at least one pending patent that would allow a virtually unlimited number of domain names under .com...
[November 7, 2003, 20:26]
Icann Domain Name Race Is On
News But the risk of losing $50,000 dollars and the headaches of dealing with Icann's confusion will pay off for domain winners. By January, the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) expects to issue its final decisions.
[September 7, 2000, 9:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog ICANN announces another chance to register for another top-level domain suffix -- .name. As for the other options -- .aero and .coop wouldn't be high on my list of essential Net homelands, but someone at ICANN thought them essential.
[August 10, 2001, 18:27]
DTI Seeks Views On The Shape Of ICANN
News ICANN's key technical functions include: managing the DNS root zone files (essentially, the master list of top level domain names (TLDs); recognising the Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs); allocating blocks of IPv4 and IPv6 (next generation...
[June 6, 2002, 11:52]
New.net Finds Ally For Domain Effort
News David Hernand, New.net's chief executive, said in a statement that the deal will give European Web publishers a chance to use more relevant addresses such .gmbh -- the German equivalent of .com -- which have not yet been sanctioned by the Internet...
[December 20, 2001, 14:30]
.Name Masterplan To Rake In The Cash
News Icann, which meets in Sweden's Stockholm this weekend for its quarterly conference, chose seven companies to operate parts of the master list of domain names last November. Global Name] will be given the right to this huge source of information...
[May 30, 2001, 16:49]
New Domain Names On The Way?
News The ICANN board set an aggressive schedule for the addition of new domain names," said Jonathan Weinberg, who co-chairs one of the ICANN working groups studying the new domain name issue. ICANN's schedule "contemplates the adoption of...
[March 13, 2000, 9:51]
Court Rules In Favour Of ICANN
News In a ruling released 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 (ICANN) had engaged in anticompetitive practices.
[November 17, 2003, 11:10]
ICANN Under Investigation
News An ICANN spokeswoman said the wait-list change would not become effective until after an October board meeting in Carthage, Tunisia. Two congressmen introduced a bill on Thursday that would block an ICANN plan to give control of all expiring...
[June 20, 2003, 9:50]
US Voices Openness To Private Net Control
News The hearing came as the agency contemplates whether to renew a memorandum of understanding, dating back to 1998, between the US government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the nonprofit organisation...
[July 27, 2006, 16:20]
Network Solutions Agrees To Domain Deal
News Last November, the federal government granted the newly created ICANN the authority to introduce competition into the domain-registration market. As part of the deal, the company agreed to pay a set of annual registration fees that will help...
[September 29, 1999, 12:12]
New Competition For .com
News The board also deflected an attempt by Director Hans Kraaijenbrink to remove the .kids domain, which Icann staff rejected in its evaluations of the 44 applications. The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) approved seven...
[November 17, 2000, 8:25]
Hate Site Distorts King's Dream
News Attempting to seize the domain through the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organisation charged with overseeing the Internet, would also be unsuccessful, according to ICANN spokesperson Pam Brewster.
[January 26, 2000, 12:20]
Global Web: An Internet Governance Run-down
News ICANN approves new top-level domain names (think .biz and .xxx), sets minimum prices for domain names and oversees a dispute-resolution process for domain names. Ideally, many of the delegates would like a United Nations bureaucracy to supplant...
[November 17, 2005, 15:50]
EC Signs Deal For '.eu' Domain
News EURid, which was created by the country-level registries of Belgium, Italy and Sweden, says it will now negotiate with ICANN to have .eu put in the root and, once that is done, intends to operate a 'sunrise' period for registrations.
[October 14, 2004, 15:05]
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]
US Endorses Internet Governance Forum
News Those include new mandates for consumer protection", the power to tax domain names to pay for universal access" and folding ICANN into a UN agency. In addition, ICANN, the nonprofit organisation created by the Clinton administration to oversee day...
[November 16, 2005, 13:40]
Bush Challenges EC Over Internet Governance
News Those include new mandates for "consumer protection", the power to tax domain names to pay for "universal access", and folding the ICANN into a UN agency. At the heart of this international political spat is the unique influence that the US federal...
[October 21, 2005, 11:30]
Networks Evade VeriSign's SiteFinder
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the group that oversees the Internet's domain name system and successfully prodded VeriSign to suspend SiteFinder, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
[October 7, 2003, 11:35]
Waiting List Wins ICANN Approval
News But the suggestion has drawn sharp criticism from some domain name registrars, which have filed their own lawsuit against both ICANN and VeriSign, alleging that the planned service will hurt their businesses by permitting VeriSign to leverage its...
[March 10, 2004, 8:20]
