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  Website address 'revolution' on hold

  The internet domain name "revolution" is on hold due to a flaw that let some aspiring applicants peek at unauthorised information at the registration website.

  By AAP | 01 May, 2012 08:53

  Tags: domain names, generic top-level domains, gTLDs, icann, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

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  Embracing mobile site visitors: Early detection is best

  The ubiquity of mobile devices, the shift to "choose it yourself" top-level domains and the availability of internationalized domain names will profoundly impact the relationship between your network and your network users. In this biweekly column, Ram Mohan, a non-voting ICANN board member and "Security and Stability Advisory Committee Liaison," chronicles these and other developments.

  By Ram Mohan, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Afilias Limited | 20 April, 2012 06:30

  Tags: Configuration / maintenance, consumer electronics, Data Center, device detection, hardware systems, icann, LAN & WAN, mobile device detection, mobile site, mobile website, networking, pc, smartphones, wireless

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  Startup spotlight: DotYellow to enter online listings market

  Concerned by the waste generated by the Yellow Pages books, product development director, Angelo Perera, decided to do something about it and helped start Melbourne-based online brand listing company, DotYellow.

  By Hamish Barwick | 10 April, 2012 12:07

  Tags: domain names, DotYellow, icann, Startup

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  A Report on ICANN 43: New gTLDs and DNSSEC

  The ubiquity of mobile devices, the shift to "choose it yourself" top-level domains and the availability of internationalized domain names will profoundly impact the relationship between your network and your network users. In this biweekly column, Ram Mohan, a non-voting ICANN board member and "Security and Stability Advisory Committee Liaison," chronicles these and other developments in this biweekly Network World column.

  By Ram Mohan, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Afilias Limited | 04 April, 2012 00:46

  Tags: comcast, DNSSEC, Domain Name System Security Extensions, domain validation, e-commerce, generic top-level domains, gTLD, icann, idn, Internationalized Domain Names, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, LAN & WAN, paypal

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  How to profit from new domain name rules

  A new era in Web site naming has begun, providing a golden opportunity for savvy IT professionals to go on the offensive with new domains that can capture additional Web traffic and generate new revenue.

  By Dirk A.D. Smith | 24 January, 2012 01:37

  Tags: domain names, icann, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, LAN & WAN

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  New era for website names begins

  A new era of Web site naming begins, when Internet policymakers start accepting applications for hundreds - perhaps thousands - of new domain name extensions such as .hotel and .paris.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 January, 2012 05:37

  Tags: DNS, domain names, FedEx, icann, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, LAN & WAN, MarkMonitor

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  Critics stage last-ditch effort to derail domain name expansion plan

  Debate around a controversial plan to add hundreds of new domain name extensions to the Internet infrastructure has reached a fever pitch in the nation's capital, as critics engage in a last-ditch effort to scrap or delay the plan, which is scheduled to launch Jan. 12.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 20 December, 2011 10:44

  Tags: domain names, generic top level domains, gTLD, icann, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, LAN & WAN, TLD, top level domains

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  Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10

  In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening array of political and corporate targets, repressive regimes unplugged citizens from the Internet, and the U.S. government moved to block the giant merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA. With the passing of Steve Jobs, the world lost a technology icon who redefined the computer, entertainment and consumer electronics industries. These are the IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 technology stories of the year:

  By Marc Ferranti | 14 December, 2011 03:32

  Tags: 3g, 4g, Android, Android OS, Android tablets, antitrust, Apple, applications, at&t, bill gates, business issues, Carriers, Components, consumer electronics, cybercrime, data breach, desktop pcs, Google, government, Handhelds / PDAs, hardware systems, hewlett-packard, icann, intellectual property, internet, Internet-based applications and services, Internet service providers, intrusion, iOS, iPad, iPhone, legal, legislation, Leo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, memory, mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft, mobile, Mobile OSes, Music and audio, operating systems, oracle, patent, personnel, processors, Regulation, restructuring, samsung, sap, security, smartphones, social networking, software, sony, steve jobs, tablets, Telecommunication, telephony, t-mobile, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows desktop, Windows desktops

• Trademark owners can block misuse in .xxx domain

  Trademark owners can prevent their names from being misused in the new .xxx top-level domain by blocking these names, ICM Registry, the Florida-based registry operator for the .xxx top-level domain said.

  By John Ribeiro | 18 July, 2011 21:25

  Tags: icann, ICM Registry, legal, intellectual property, internet

• ICANN approves change to Internet domain name system

  The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved an increase in the number of Internet domain name endings, known as generic top-level domains (gTLDs), from the current 22.

  By John Ribeiro | 20 June, 2011 16:19

  Tags: icann, ISPAI, legal, internet

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  P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN

  A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 December, 2010 01:46

  Tags: DNS, icann, internet, networking, P2P, peer-to-peer

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  ICANN board approves dot-XXX top-level domain for porn

  Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided Friday.

  By Peter Sayer | 28 June, 2010 05:10

  Tags: domain names, entertainment, government, icann, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, porn, Regulation, .xxx

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  Dot-org domains can now be protected by DNSSEC

  On Wednesday, .org became the first generic top-level domain to offer its customers improved security using DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions).

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 June, 2010 02:56

  Tags: DNS, DNSSEC, domain names, icann, security

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  ICANN approves first four internationalized country domains

  ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has approved the first four country-code domain names written in non-Latin script, it announced Tuesday.

  By Peter Sayer | 29 April, 2010 05:45

  Tags: domain names, icann

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  Law enforcement lobbies hard for ICANN changes

  U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are trying to marshal support for changes that would make it more difficult for criminals to register domain names under false details.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 24 March, 2010 07:28

  Tags: domain names, fraud, icann, security