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  • July 2008

    • Domain-Name Rule Change 'Brand Owner's Nightmare'

      BusinessWeek  |  Jul 1, 08 5:45 PM CDT

      Domain-Name Rule Change 'Brand Owner's Nightmare'

      (Newser) - The decision of an internet oversight body to allow more domain names opens the playing field to cybersquatters—who register domain names in the hopes someone else will have to purchase them later, BusinessWeek reports. No more is it a matter of simply .com or .net: Squatters may now buy up countless addresses, forcing brand names to keep a much wider-ranging eye on the web. More »

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      Internet  • domain names  • World Wide Web  • ICANN  • web domain  • infringement

  • February 2008

    • Domain Snatchers Hit With Lawsuit

      Network World  |  Feb 26, 08 12:10 PM CST

      Domain Snatchers Hit With Lawsuit

      (Newser) - A class-action lawsuit filed yesterday targets a top purveyor of domain names and its alleged practice of “frontrunning,” Network World reports. Network Solutions essentially registers a domain name the second a customer searches for it, forcing the customer to pay the company’s above-market rate of $35 for the address. The suit also names ICANN for "aiding and abetting fraudulent concealment." More »

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      lawsuit  • domain names  • ICANN  • Network Solutions

  • November 2007

    • Foreign Domain Names Coming to Net

      ZDNet  |  Nov 15, 07 3:45 PM CST

      Foreign Domain Names Coming to Net

      (Newser) - Soon, Chinese domain names can at long last be in Chinese. Addressing one of international critics’ longest-standing complaints, ICANN, the independent non-profit that regulates the Internet, is putting internationalized domain names on the fast track, ZDNet reports. Studies are already underway on how to integrate domains with non-Latin characters into the net’s framework, and what technical impact that would have. More »

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      Internet  • domain names  • ICANN  • Vint Cerf

    • ICANN Appoints New Zealander to Replace Cerf

      PC World  |  Nov 3, 07 3:01 PM CDT

      ICANN Appoints New Zealander to Replace Cerf

      (Newser) - ICANN, the independent organization managing the Internet, filled its leadership void today by appointing New Zealand’s Peter Dengate Thrush as chairman. He will be the first non-American to head the group, which took over regulation from the US government, and has often come under international fire. Dengate Thrush downplayed his nationality, according to PC World , focusing instead on the organization’s maturity. More »

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      ICANN  • Vint Cerf  • DNS

  • October 2007

    • Internet Running Out of IP Addresses

      BBC  |  Oct 31, 07 11:26 AM CDT

      Internet Running Out of IP Addresses

      (Newser) - By 2010, new computers won’t be able to get online, warns Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf, unless ISPs adopt IPv6, a new system of assigning IP addresses. IP addresses are unique number strings devices need to get online, but most of the 4 billion numbers possible under the current system are taken. Routing devices are ready for IPv6, but providers are balking at the expensive switch. More »

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      Internet  • ICANN  • IP address  • Vint Cerf  • IPv6

    • Net Co-Inventor Leaving Domain Name Agency

      Associated Press  |  Oct 29, 07 1:22 PM CDT

      Net Co-Inventor Leaving Domain Name Agency

      (Newser) - Vint Cerf, who helped develop the technological underpinnings of the Internet, is stepping down as head of its oversight board, the AP reports. Many predicted the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers was doomed when Cerf took over in 1999, but he steered it through international criticism for 7 years. “My sentence is up,” Cerf joked, having hit his term limit. More »

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      Internet  • ICANN  • Vint Cerf

    • Insider Trading May Have Net Variant

      Associated Press  |  Oct 24, 07 1:39 PM CDT

      Insider Trading May Have Net Variant

      (Newser) - Someone call Michael Milken: Insider trading trailblazers may have found a new perch online. ICANN is investigating a poaching practice it's calling “front running,” in which buyers with inside information grab desirable domain names before others can register them. Speculation on the shadowy URL snatchers runs to viruses and other software that monitor interest in available domains, the AP reports. More »

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      Internet  • insider trading  • domain names  • computer virus  • ICANN  • Michael Milken

    • Translating 'Dot Com' into Cyrillic

      Washington Post  |  Oct 11, 07 11:25 PM CDT

      Translating 'Dot Com' into Cyrillic

      (Newser) - On Monday the Internet's global reach will extend further when it tests non-Roman character domain names. For years, non-English speakers have petitioned the US and companies controlling the Internet for domain names in their native language, the BBC reports. But ICANN, the nonprofit corporation which allocates domains, has been afraid of destabilizing or crashing the Net. More »

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      Internet  • ICANN  • Hindi

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