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30-Mar-2007
New ICANN Website
ICANN today introduces a new website with better navigation and new features. "ICANN is committed to being more transparen...
30-Mar-2007
Google Earth Rebuilding Damaged Planet!
Search engine giants Google have become so big they have started work on rebuilding damaged areas of the planet or so their Google Earth ...
30-Mar-2007
XXX Domain Rejected
The agency that sets the Internet addressing guidelines influencing how people navigate the Web defeated a proposal Friday to give adult ...
30-Mar-2007
Online Payment Using Your Mobile
Credit card giant Visa has made the advance towards payments on the move by collaborating with Ireland based dotMobi domain registry serv...
30-Mar-2007
Possible Financial Domain
Internet governing body ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is finding itself under increasing pressure to come u...
29-Mar-2007
DNS (Domain Name System) Key Upgrade
Its been almost three years since the last upgrade to this service, the open source BIND Domain Name System
29-Mar-2007 Yesterday in Portugal, Government advisers deliberated behind closed doors but issued no public statement on a plan to give the online ad...Adult Domain Proposal Discussed Behind Closed Doors
29-Mar-2007
Lawsuit Filed Against RegisterFly & ICANN
Lawyers in the US. have filed a class action lawsuit against domain name registrar, RegisterFly.com, and ICANN. The suit also nam...
28-Mar-2007
ICANN Review Domain Name Regulations
The key oversight agency for internet addresses is reviewing the way it oversees businesses that sell
28-Mar-2007 Global provider of Internet domain name registry services, Afilias, has released information that the .INFO generic top-level domain has ....INFO Domains Surpasses 4 Million Registrations
26-Mar-2007
Longest European Domain Names Registered
After the launch of the .eu top-level Domain Name, the European Registry of Int...
26-Mar-2007
Trade Association Forced to Relinquish Domain Names
The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a trade association which has been labelled as "Orwellian" by Centre for Science in the ...
26-Mar-2007
New CIRA Privacy Policy
Today the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) announced the results of its public consultation regarding the implementation s...
26-Mar-2007
Vote for XXX Internet Domain Name Nears
Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtua...
21-Mar-2007
Domain Name Whois Privacy
Many owners of Internet addresses face this quandary: Provide your real contact information when you register a domain name and subject y...
19-Mar-2007
UNWTO Announce SOS Domain For Travel Alerts
The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has announced that it would be using the
19-Mar-2007 Domain registrar RegisterFly.com lost its accreditation with ICANN Friday.
The move came after two years of complaints by registr...RegisterFly.com ICANN Accreditation Terminated
18-Mar-2007
Domain Name Aftermarket Grows to $111million in 2006
The domain name aftermarket broke the US$100 million mark in 2006, reaching $111,376,000 across 17,974
18-Mar-2007 Several domain names with the Singapore ccTLD, .sg, have been seized from cybersquatters after big brand name companies demanded the righ...Singapore Cybersquatters
16-Mar-2007
Domain Tasters a Headache for WIPO
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), who oversee many domain name disputes, argue that the fairness of the domain name sy...
15-Mar-2007
SiteAdvisor Publishes Domain Safety Results
A domain risk assessor owned by McAfee Associates has completed a broad scan of 265 top-level domains, assessing the levels of malicious ...
15-Mar-2007
Microsoft sues cybersquatters in U.S & U.K
Microsoft Corp. today said it filed lawsuits against cybersquatters in the U.S. and the U.K. to stop them from illegally profiting from t...
13-Mar-2007
Topix.net Buys Topix.com
The news feed site Topix thought that having a .net Domain Name wouldn’t be a...
12-Mar-2007
International Domain Names Successfully Tested
Internationalised domain names (IDNs) have moved closer to being realised, after ICANN announced it had successfully completed testing of...
12-Mar-2007
Starbucks Files Suit Against “Mr Charbucks” Coffee Brand
In a report issued last week, the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) said that its domain name resolutions climbed by 21 percent in 2006 fr...
09-Mar-2007
ICANN Factsheet on February Attempt to Attack DNS Servers
ICANN has today released a factsheet concerning the recent attack on the root server system on 6 February 2007. The factsheet is intended...
06-Mar-2007
Google Trys Again To Buy Chinese Gmail Domain
Internet business giant Google is finding the Chinese namesake of its Gmail service playing hard-to-get. According to one report, the US ...
06-Mar-2007
ICANN Threatens Registerfly with legal action
ICANN has finally firmed up in its battle with troublesome Domain Name registrar ...
06-Mar-2007
mobi Registrations Pass 400,000
Over 400,000 dotmobi Domain Registrations have been placed since the TLD ...
04-Mar-2007
.tel TLD Application Approved by ICANN
On 2nd March 2007, .tel was added to the DNS root zone, becoming the 15th gen...