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A Year Ago: Domain Name Plan Resolved
News More likely, though, is continued conflict over the reorganization of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority , the private-sector body that will assume power over domain registration between now and October 2000.
[October 7, 1999, 7:30]
US Report: Domain Name Plan Resolved
News More likely, though, is continued conflict over the reorganization of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority , the private-sector body that will assume power over domain registration between now and October 2000.
[October 7, 1998, 11:27]
Court Orders ICANN To Open Books
News A US judge has ordered the Internet's governing body to open its books for inspection. A state judge in Los Angeles lifted the veil of secrecy that has surrounded many of the group's internal deliberations for the last four years, dealing an...
[July 30, 2002, 9:40]
EDS Helps FIFA Take Soccer To The World
White Papers As the global governing body of soccer, the world's most popular sport, FIFA was seeking to leverage technology and the Internet to further its mission - to make the game better and take it to the world.
[September 15, 2003, 0:00]
Google Gains Registrar Status
News Rival registrars that make a business of selling domain names are speculating that the credentials will give Google a more powerful seat at the table with ICANN, an Internet government body, or a potential business opportunity down the road.
[February 2, 2005, 8:35]
New Top-level Domain Goes .pro
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the Internet's governing body, originally approved the addition of .pro and six other new top-level domains two years ago. A doctor might want the secure measure in order to meet...
[August 8, 2003, 12:05]
ICANN Comes Under Fire - Again
News The problems ICANN faces are twofold: The body not only is trying to oversee the development of the Internet, it's also trying to hash out its own governing structure. ICANN was given life by the US government in 1998 as an independent policy...
[April 2, 2002, 11:28]
Analysis: Ofcom To Give BBC Remit For Universal Net Access?
News So will the new body also come complete with a new Internet time approach? But all the while broadcasters are offering toasts to their new regulator, spare a thought for the embattled telecoms regulator Oftel which had hoped to oversee the new body.
[December 13, 2000, 16:20]
BT Plans Internet Registrar Business
News The latest list of successful applications issued by the Internet's governing body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), includes the telecom giant together with 17 other companies from around the world.
[March 9, 2001, 7:08]
The Internet's .1 And Only?
News As the Internet's governing body, Icann decided earlier this year to meet the demand for new domain names by issuing new TLDs. We thought the Internet community needed to be segmented," Howe said. Paul Kane wants to be the ".1".
[October 3, 2000, 12:43]
.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]
VeriSign May Lose Dibs On Domain Sales
News The Internet's governing body has threatened to pull VeriSign's contract to sell Web addresses unless the domain name company maintains more accurate records of its customers. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on...
[September 4, 2002, 8:12]
ICANN Confirms Date For .name Release
News The Internet's governing body will soon be making it easier for individuals to register their names as personal URLs, after confirmation that the new top level domain name (TLD) .name will be available by the end of August.
[August 6, 2001, 14:28]
An Outsider Looks In On Icann
News When Andy Mueller-Maguhn of Germany takes his seat on the Icann (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) board, he says he'll start tearing down the Internet governing body and rebuilding it from the bottom up.
[October 16, 2000, 8:00]
Waiting List Wins ICANN Approval
News ICANN, a prominent Internet governing body, had been negotiating with VeriSign since March 2002 over details of the Wait Listing Service. Anyone hoping to buy expiring Internet domain names that end in .com and .net may be able to place their names...
[March 10, 2004, 8:20]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The Wall Street Journal reports on the debacle of administering copyright and names on the Internet that recently saw "thousands of firms rushed to register Internet names in Turkmenistan, just in case a governing body one day decided to make the...
[July 27, 1998, 8:59]
UN Attacks Tech Giants Over China Co-operation
News It also revealed a continuing disagreement about whether the United Nations or a similar body should set global rules for free speech online. And is it wise to have some international organisation adopting regulations governing internet speech?
[November 1, 2006, 9:42]
Exclusive: 3G Could Aid Paedophiles, Experts Warn Pt II
News One government appointed body, the Internet Crime Forum, has been investigating Internet chatrooms for the past 18 months. Ruth Dixon, deputy chief executive of the Internet Watch Foundation, has been involved in working with the Forum and admits...
[December 6, 2000, 10:14]
Super-regulator To Shake Up Media
News The existing medley of regulators -- Oftel, the Independent Television Commission, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the Radio Authority and the Radio Communications Agency -- will be merged to form a single regulatory body.
[December 12, 2000, 16:11]
Online Ad Group Names Permanent Chief
News Since Webster was hired, the association has been aiming to mature into a powerful governing body for the roughly $7.5bn online ad industry, which suffered its first declines last year. With Webster's appointment early last year, the IAB renamed...
[April 23, 2002, 11:18]
