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NEWS ABOUT: ICANN

ICANN stories: 10 news summaries

Web Addresses Will Gain International Flavor

Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew domains, among others, will have support by 2010: ICANN

Oct 26, 09 5:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the biggest change ever to the system, Web domains will soon be available in the native scripts of Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, and other non-Latin-based languages. A proposal expected to be approved this week means “Internationalized Domain Names” could be up and running as soon as mid-2010. China and... More »

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China • Internet • Thailand • globalization • domain names • Chinese • Arabic • Internet domains • ICANN • World Wide Web • web domain • Hebrew • communications

(Newser) - Microsoft has offered a $250,000 bounty for the creators of the dreaded Conficker worm, which has infected 10 million computers worldwide, PC Magazine reports. The software giant is working with security firms and domain name administrator ICANN to find the culprits, whose virus exploits a vulnerability in Windows.... More »

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Microsoft • computer virus • ICANN • cybercrime • reward • Conficker • bounty

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

Firms must guard against squatters

Jul 1, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Domain Snatchers Hit With Lawsuit

ICANN also named for allowing frontrunning practice

Feb 26, 08 12:10 PM CST
(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... More »

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domain names • lawsuit • ICANN • Network Solutions

Foreign Domain Names Coming to Net

After years of complaints, ICANN fast tracks non-Latin web addresses

Nov 15, 07 3:45 PM CST
(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... More »

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Internet • domain names • ICANN • Vint Cerf • Peter DengateThrush • URL

ICANN Appoints New Zealander to Replace Cerf

Will be first non- American to head the Internet regulatory body

Nov 3, 07 3:01 PM CDT
(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... More »

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ICANN • Vint Cerf • DNS

Internet Running Out of
IP Addresses

Service providers need to get onboard with IPv6

Oct 31, 07 11:26 AM CDT
(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... More »

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Internet • IP address • ICANN • Vint Cerf • IPv6

Net Co-Inventor Leaving Domain Name Agency

Cerf navigated oversight board through WWW's early days

Oct 29, 07 1:22 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Internet • ICANN • Vint Cerf

Insider Trading May Have
Net Variant

Agency investigates claims of shady profits from domain names

Oct 24, 07 1:39 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Translating 'Dot Com' into Cyrillic

Domain names in non-Roman alphabet
to be tested by Net managers

Oct 11, 07 11:25 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Internet • Hindi • ICANN • roman • alphabet • cyrillic • Urdu

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