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Nominet Consults On International Domain Names
News Domain names within the .co.uk domain are currently limited to 37 core symbols -- the letters A-Z, the ten digits and the hyphen. Users of Web browsers such as Opera, Safari and Firefox were said to be vulnerable to cybercriminals who registered...
[June 7, 2005, 14:40]
PricewaterhouseCoopers Loses Pwc.com Domain Fight
News PricewaterhouseCoopers had claimed that the pwc.com domain name is "directly identical and confusingly similar to its PWC mark. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and policy-related news, to domain name updates, see ZDNet UK's...
[May 27, 2002, 18:00]
Domain Name Scammers Get Sneakier
Blog They would send official looking letters to domain name owners telling them their domain name was about to expire and to pay immediately to avoid losing their precious web site address. Long ago scammers discovered that they could trick domain name...
[October 29, 2007, 11:18]
Man Accused Of £1.5m Web Scams
News Francis-Macrae is also alleged to have sent letters to people whose domain names were about to expire, demanding a renewal fee. According to The Times, at its height the .eu scam brought in £200,000 per month, while the domain registration letters...
[October 12, 2005, 10:40]
The ABCs Of .XXX
Leader With Google reporting nearly seventy million searches for 'porn' or related terms every day — rather more than six thousand letters — what difference does the domain make anyway? Six thousand concerned letters have been received by the US...
[August 17, 2005, 14:15]
Dell Sues Dell Over Web Hosting Site
News He claimed he was acting in good faith when he registered his surname as his domain name. The body that normally deals with domain name arbitration is the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Paul Dell claims Dell is taking him to court in...
[February 21, 2006, 15:30]
Britons Get .me.uk Domain
News In a vote on 11 January, 75 percent of the 598 registry members voted in favour of launching the domain name, designed to put more of a personal spin on UK Web addresses. Such charges generally include the cost of hosting the domain name.
[January 14, 2002, 11:03]
Bestselling Authors Win Back Domain Names
News Although the authors hadn't registered the domain name, there is a common law trademark that places the rights with the owner of the name," said a spokesperson at WIPO. And read other letters. Hogarth bought and registered the domain names in...
[April 5, 2001, 8:45]
.Me.uk Domain Scheduled For Release
News Rules for the new SLD state, "the registrants will be Natural Persons who have an association with the UK" and that, ".the domain name should be a reasonably faithful representation of that person's legal name.
[January 8, 2002, 17:51]
AOL Bent On Taking 'AIM'
News A recent domain name victory may have emboldened the company to go after more people who use the word "AIM" in their products. In a posting on the Sourceforge.net site, Douglas E Warner said he received a letter from an attorney representing AOL...
[June 22, 2001, 11:49]
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]
Computer Passwords Reveal Office Workers' Secrets
News The Internet domain name registry CentralNic who commissioned the study, claims that the most common type of password attack comes in the form of "social engineering", when a cracker poses as technical support, and contacts someone in a different...
[June 28, 2001, 12:37]
Microsoft's Web Sites Go Down
News Sohn said the problem stems from Microsoft's Domain Name Servers, which translate requests to various Web servers. That was not the first time users of Hotmail, which is run by Microsoft, had confronted such problems: a similar outage occurred in...
[January 24, 2001, 14:38]
Want To Capture A .com? Get In Line
News People who own a domain name in most cases have just a one-year right to the name and must renew their subscription annually to maintain control of the name. VeriSign's proposal would allow people interested in taking over a domain name to...
[January 7, 2002, 10:47]
Storm Brewing Over New Domain Names
News The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is gearing up to cope with a possible flood of disputes resulting from disgruntled individuals failing to register their trademark as a new generic top level domain name (gTLD).
[August 10, 2001, 16:00]
Girl In Harry Potter Web Address Battle
News A 15-year-old Singaporean girl could face legal action from Time Warner Entertainment for refusing to surrender her rights to the Harry Potter domain name. Christie Chan registered the harrypotternetwork.net domain name in October 1999, although...
[January 22, 2001, 13:51]
Icann Swamped By Net Name Chaos
News The system for registering domains is in danger of descending into chaos as independent registrars are undermining Icann's grip on the current domain name system. Icann has ultimate authority in ensuring the selling of domain names is fairly run...
[April 11, 2001, 15:55]
The Incredible Shrinking Internet
News Netcraft attributed last month's drop to the decline in new domain name registrations; it also found that some current Web addresses are being abandoned. The drop-off in people renewing domains that they probably registered two years ago is...
[January 3, 2002, 9:32]
.Movie Coming To A Web Site Near You
News New.net, an Internet start-up aiming to speed up the domain-name registration process, has released a new domain name suffix, ending in .movie. And read other letters. The company said that unlike other New.net domain names, which are available for...
[October 24, 2001, 11:28]
BT Plans Internet Registrar Business
News BT will become one of only a handful of telecoms companies providing or planning to provide domain name registrar services. Primus Telecommunications of Australia, Talk.com in the US, and CCT Telecom Group in Hong Kong -- which is a part owner in...
[March 9, 2001, 7:08]
