US Government to probe domain name registration
News The solution to the domain name shortage is likely to lie beyond the jurisdiction of the US Department of Justice, requiring international agreement between telcos, ISPs, and governments. Problems have arisen with domain name registration as...
[July 8, 1997, 11:15]
US Report: Domain-name plans pass to industry
News How will the organisation dole out IP addresses, for which there is a serious shortage? That includes the Domain Name System, with names such as www.ants.com, but also the more arcane systems of numbers used in systems such as Internet Protocol...
[June 5, 1998, 12:17]
ICANN comes under fire - again
News What's more, domain name squabbles may be little more than a sideshow as the group tries to define its mission in the face of technical challenges--including grappling with increased security risks and a potential shortage of IP (Internet Protocol...
[April 2, 2002, 11:28]
IPv6 domains primed for launch
News Asia and Europe are likely to be the first countries to experience an IP address shortage. At a meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this week, ICANN, which is in charge of allocating IP addresses, said that it has added the latest version of...
[July 26, 2004, 9:50]
Next Net takes giant leap
News The IP address shortage is likely to affect Asia and Europe first, where adoption of these new technologies is growing fast. For two weeks in March, the North American IPv6 Task Force, the Defense Information Systems Agency's Joint Interoperability...
[March 23, 2004, 7:20]
Robots in sewers could get Britain online
News While there is no shortage of international and long distance bandwidth, so called "metro" networks are currently the bottleneck for service providers. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name...
[December 10, 2001, 6:31]
Look up in anger
Leader We have no shortage of people claiming an interest in regulating the Internet -- look at the heat and noise generated by powerful people over subjects such as the .XXX domain and the straw man of cyberterrorism.
[May 2, 2006, 14:00]
Fraudsters search Google for credit-card numbers
News There is no shortage of ways to search Google to find such data. The sites seemed to be spread out over the globe: One had a Russian domain name, another was written in Arabic, and a third was based in the Netherlands.
[August 4, 2004, 8:45]
