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ICANN drops plan to approve .XXX
News Attempts to create a domain name to handle adult online content faced an uncertain future on Friday after ICANN abandoned plans to debate the issue. The proposal to create a .XXX domain was due to get final approval at an ICANN board meeting in...
[December 2, 2005, 12:25]
Icann gives green light to non-Latin URLs
News Icann has given approval for the use of non-Latin characters in top-level domains, opening the door to Chinese, Arabic and other alternatives to web extensions such as .com. Icann said the move will allow people to create web addresses that are in...
[October 30, 2009, 16:10]
News Burst: ICANN adds seven domain registrars
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has accredited seven new registrars and included them in its test bed for the ".com", ".net" and ".org" domains. The companies join five existing registrars that have been...
[August 12, 1999, 16:24]
ICANN proposes new Net tax
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international organisation that oversees domain names, is moving forward with a 75-cent annual fee for .net domains starting next year and is expected to expand the levy to other...
[December 16, 2004, 14:50]
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. The report says that the NetDevilz group redirected visitors to "icann.net" and other...
[June 27, 2008, 16:39]
ICANN still rules the Internet roost
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a last-minute reprieve at the World Summit on the Information ICANN is still standing — for now. That agreement, signed by the Bush administration last week, took ICANN off...
[November 23, 2005, 12:20]
ICANN wants independence from US govt
Blog ICANN, the body that oversees the world's domain registries and internet policy, has formally asked the US government to let it be transferred to the private sector [.pdf alert]. As ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush says in this latest submission...
[January 25, 2008, 10:02]
ICANN rejects .xxx
Blog ICANN has said no to the idea of a .xxx domain. As the Reg points out, this is the result of too much political to-ing and fro-ing, and is really not the sort of thing ICANN is supposed to be there for.
[March 30, 2007, 11:13]
ICANN hires journalist critic
Blog Now, though, he's joining ICANN. Interestingly, Kieren's been tracking ICANN very closely over the years and has written some pretty critical articles at times (for example). Kieren has been appointed as 'general manager, public participation' and...
[January 22, 2007, 10:55]
ICANN proposes new Net tax
News At the very least, Gattuso said, domain name fees should be decided "by an outside authority, not ICANN itself. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international organisation that oversees domain names, is moving...
[December 16, 2004, 14:50]
ICANN - So what was accomplished?
Talkback So it doesn't sound like there was much consensus in Puerto Rico & that more questions remain when ICANN reconveines in Los Angeles. Great use of time guys *sigh.
[July 3, 2007, 21:03]
ICANN approves .tel domain
News Internet regulator ICANN has approved the creation of the .tel domain, the company that proposed the domain announced on Monday. Telnic, which proposed .tel to ICANN in 2000, said the domain will give individuals and businesses a naming and...
[May 16, 2006, 15:20]
Icann gains independence from the US
News On Wednesday, Icann and the US Department of Commerce announced that they had signed a new agreement that states the internet body is "independent and not controlled by any one entity". It also commits Icann to remaining a private, not-for-profit...
[September 30, 2009, 15:58]
ICANN signs in .eu
News ICANN, the international body in charge of managing Internet domains, has given the official go-ahead to the creation of a European top level domain, .eu. The negotiations between Icann and Eurid lasted nearly six months, starting in October 2004...
[March 24, 2005, 16:20]
Icann enforcement put to the test
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will soon face its first enforcement test as a spat between Verio and Register.com gets increasingly nasty. As part of their accreditation agreements with Icann, Register.com and other...
[January 9, 2001, 9:40]
ICANN rejects .XXX domain
News Internet regulator ICANN has voted down a proposal to create a domain for adult Web sites. ICANN's board on Wednesday voted nine to five against the proposal, which would have led to the creation of a .XXX domain suffix for pornography sites.
[May 11, 2006, 13:25]
ICANN drops plan to approve .XXX
Talkback ICANN = I CAN'T WHAT A USELESS ORGANIZATION
[December 3, 2005, 3:26]
ICANN adds .jobs and .travel to Internet names
News ICANN, the group in charge of regulating top level domain (TLD) names, has approved two new TLDs - .jobs and .travel - to come on stream later this year. At the 22nd ICANN International Conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on Friday the...
[April 11, 2005, 14:50]
Icann election goes 'a little crazy'
News As Icann spokeswoman Pamela Brewster put it, things "got a little crazy". More than 158,000 Internet users have registered to vote in an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) online election that will choose the five people to...
[August 8, 2000, 10:18]
Icann: Coders and ISPs vital to net security
News Developers and internet service providers will need to participate if the encryption of a fundamental internet protocol is to succeed, according to Icann. Icann is the US-based organisation responsible for running the domain-name system (DNS...
[June 8, 2009, 17:17]
