New ICANN Head Promises Greater Openness
News Paul Twomey, the recently elected president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), believes the organisation's next step is to look beyond OECD nations to accommodate the interests of the Internet community worldwide.
[March 20, 2003, 10:58]
Australian Confirmed As ICANN President
News Australian Paul Twomey will become the first non-American to head the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) when he takes office on 27 March. Twomey was a leading contender for the hot seat.
[March 19, 2003, 8:18]
Management Group Warns CEOs Of Data-breach Risks
News Paul Twomey, president and chief executive officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and one of the authors of the report, said that the majority of chief executives do not recognise the risks posed by cyber...
[May 8, 2008, 14:22]
ICANN Attacks 'fat And Happy' IPv4 Users
News Twomey added that businesses needed to put pressure on their internet service providers (ISPs) to make sure their systems interoperate. The president and chief executive of ICANN, Paul Twomey, told ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday that "fat and happy...
[May 9, 2008, 13:16]
Whois Database 'contributes To Identity Theft'
News More than 50 organisations from around the world signed a letter to Paul Twomey, chief executive of ICANN, asking for better protection of the personal details stored on the Whois database. In a 18 September announcement, ICANN's Twomey noted that...
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
ICANN To Vote On Internationalised Domain Names
News The policies that are to be voted on have taken around three years and $10m (£5m) to formulate, ICANN president Paul Twomey told ZDNet.co.uk on Monday. This is the first time [ICANN will be voting on] the detail of how [such] applications would...
[June 23, 2008, 17:44]
ICANN Wants Independence From US Govt
Blog From the BBC, quoting ICANN president Paul Twomey: Instead of creating more hoops for ICANN to jump through, Mr Twomey said it was time for talk to move on and for thoughts about the future of the net body.
[January 25, 2008, 10:02]
CEOs Warned: Wake Up To Cyberthreats
News Paul Twomey, chief executive of ICANN and member of the British-North American Committee, advises chief executives of the risks to business from cyber-espionage and how to deal with them.
[May 12, 2008, 16:58]
ICANN: Start Planning For IPv6
News Paul Twomey, president and chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), advises chief executives to start discussions with internet service providers on moving to systems compatible with internet protocol...
[May 9, 2008, 17:29]
VeriSign Relents On Browser 'hijack'
News In a letter sent to VeriSign on Friday, Icann chief executive Paul Twomey told the domain name registrar that it had until 6 p.m. Based on the information currently available to us, it appears that these changes have had a substantial adverse...
[October 6, 2003, 14:20]
ICANN Relaxes Domain-name Rules
News Paul Twomey, chief executive of ICANN, told the BBC earlier this week that allowing the new naming conventions would create new "real estate" on the internet. However, Twomey told Agence France-Press that the organisation will still try to block or...
[June 27, 2008, 10:07]
ICANN Heads For 'substantive' Meeting
News The growing number of denial-of-service and other attacks, coupled with VeriSign's unannounced decision to implement Site Finder, has "heightened an appreciation of what is stability for the Internet, what is the operation of the core function...
[October 28, 2003, 9:35]
US Govt Prolongs Icann's Reign Over Net
News This new agreement clearly indicates the (Commerce Department's) recognition that Icann is the right organisation to manage the Internet's naming and numbering systems," Icann president Paul Twomey said in a statement.
[September 18, 2003, 9:05]
US Government Renews Domain-name Contract
News In executing this contract the Department of Commerce has confirmed that ICANN is uniquely positioned to perform this function," Paul Twomey, the organisation's chief executive, said in a statement. The US Government this week renewed its contract...
[August 17, 2006, 10:25]
ICM Registry Counts Cost Of .XXX Domain Rejection
News Twomey, the chief of ICANN, claimed last week that the decision "was not driven by a political consideration", but Lawley disagrees. The company behind the failed .xxx domain proposal says it spent nearly $3m before ICANN rejected the bid -- a move...
[May 15, 2006, 17:25]
ICANN Rejects .XXX Domain
News Despite ardent political interest in the issue, Paul Twomey, the chief of ICANN, told the Associated Press that the decision "was not driven by a political consideration". Internet regulator ICANN has voted down a proposal to create a domain for...
[May 11, 2006, 13:25]
ICANN Announces Domain Name Changes
News ICANN has now moved forward with a program to introduce further competition and choice in the top-level domain markets," said ICANN president, Dr Paul Twomey. The body which oversees domain names has listed two measures to increase the number of...
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
ICANN And Google Thwart Domain-name Profiteers
News We think it is a viable solution the internet community has been seeking," Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN's president and chief executive, said in a statement. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has formally announced a proposal to make...
[February 1, 2008, 7:32]
EC: Web 2.0 Means Power And Responsibility
News Selmayr also referred to Reding's Tuesday meeting with ICANN's president and chairman, Paul Twomey and Vint Cerf, saying that the Commissioner was taking the opportunity to reiterate the EC's view that "government should have an advisory role, but...
[October 31, 2006, 13:14]
ICANN Hands VeriSign New Monopoly On .com
News Those voting in favour of the deal included ICANN chairman Vint Cerf, who is Google's chief Internet evangelist; ICANN vice-chairman Alejandro Pisanty; and ICANN president Paul Twomey. In a rare show of internal discord, the group that sets domain...
[March 2, 2006, 8:45]
