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.Name Masterplan To Rake In The Cash
News London-based Global Name Registry, the only of the seven new Registries to be based outside the United States, is a spin-off of Norway-based free email service Nameplanet.com and is backed by venture capitalists Carlyle Europe Venture Partners...
[May 30, 2001, 16:49]
Domain Registry Site Struck By Hackers
News The Global Name Registry confirmed that its .name Web site was hacked over the weekend, blaming the attack on the company's move to relaunch its services. GNR believes the .name registry site, which operates generic top-level domains, was targeted...
[December 4, 2003, 7:35]
The Extensible Provisioning Protocol
White Papers To enable Internet registrars that sell online identity services to access central domain name registry data more efficiently, VeriSign has developed the EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol]) to support an XML-based domain name management utility.
[February 5, 2004, 2:15]
Technical White Paper: Internationalized Domain Name Registration Testbed Deployment
White Papers The purpose of this document is to provide Registrars with technical information to participate in the VeriSign Global Registry Services (GRS) Internationalized Domain Name Testbed. The document provides: Technical specifications for registrars to...
[September 15, 2003, 17:01]
Technical White Paper: Internationalized Domain Name Resolution Testbed Deployment
White Papers The VeriSign Global Registry Services (GRS) Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Testbed provides for both the registration and resolution of IDNs. The Testbed will be conducted in three stages: Stage 1.
[September 15, 2003, 17:01]
General Information Paper: Internationalized Domain Name Resolution
White Papers The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Testbed developed by VeriSign Global Registry Services (VeriSign GRS) is in Stage 3: Internationalized Domain Name Resolution. This paper is a general discussion of the resolution stage, and is part of a...
[September 15, 2003, 17:01]
The Domain Name Industry Brief
White Papers As the global registry operator for .com and .net, VeriSign closely monitors the state of the domain name industry through a variety of statistical and analytical research. As a leading provider of intelligent infrastructure for the Internet...
[January 11, 2007, 0:00]
.Info Reaches The Half-million Milestone
News More than half a million customers have registered a .info domain name during the first 90 days of operation, according to Afilias, the official registry for the new global top level domain (gTLD). According to Domain Stats, the NetNames global...
[October 25, 2001, 12:23]
ICANN Confirms Date For .name Release
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement with the Global Name Registry (GNR) for the introduction of .name as a suffix. Individuals will submit their requests to ICANN...
[August 6, 2001, 14:28]
ICANN Rejects .XXX Domain
News Håkon Haugnes, president of Global Name Registry, a domain name registration organisation which oversees the .name domain, said ICANN's decision was not unexpected, given the political opposition to the domain name.
[May 11, 2006, 13:25]
China Creates Own Internet Domains
News Fragmentation is a concern both to ICANN and us because of end user confusion," said Geir Rasmussen, chief executive of Global Name Registry, a domain name registration organisation which oversees the .name domain.
[March 1, 2006, 13:35]
How To Stake Out A Domain-name Claim
News The .name domain "is in fact a dedication to the people", Hakon Haugnes, director of sales and marketing for .name registry Global Name Registry, said during a recent presentation on domains before the International Trademark Association.
[May 22, 2001, 11:43]
VeriSign To Quit Domain Registration
News The registry business, according to VeriSign, is the backbone of a global .com and .net domain name infrastructure that handles over 10 billion interactions per day. That company consisted of two businesses -- a registrar, which sells Internet...
[October 17, 2003, 9:50]
Verisign Wins Internet Villain Award
News The registry business, according to VeriSign, is the backbone of a global .com and .net domain name infrastructure that handles over 10 billion interactions per day. That company consisted of two businesses -- a registrar, which sells Internet...
[February 20, 2004, 7:30]
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]
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]
Cybersquatting Escalates In Asia
News We know that [Singapore's central registry] SGNIC (Singapore Network Information Centre) does not encourage sale of domain names, and they do some monitoring of .sg domains. Instances of cybersquatting are growing in Asia, fuelled largely by the...
[October 8, 2007, 8:15]
Registrar Stumps Up Anti-VeriSign Fund
News If VeriSign gets what they want, ICANN becomes irrelevant and you don't have anyone watching the registry operator," said Christine Jones, general counsel for Go Daddy. We are in full support of a global framework for the coordination of the domain...
[March 3, 2004, 9:05]
German Registrar Bans Autopsy Web Site
News Chuck Gomes, a vice president at VeriSign, which runs the dot-com registry, said he was not familiar with the Ogrish.com dispute but the transfer could be in the middle of the standard five-day process.
[February 12, 2003, 8:05]
Turkmenistan Stands To Win In Domain Name Games
News While the Americans have proposed that this be used for trademarked company names, the Turkmen are selling .tm domains to anyone with £99 via the global domain name registry NetNames. He expects interest to increase: "Actual usage of the name is...
[March 11, 1998, 16:25]
