ICANN Loses Control of Its Own Domain Names - Slashdot

ICANN Loses Control of Its Own Domain Names Slashdot - Jul 5, 2008 NotNormallyNormal writes "CBC picked up an AP story about ICANN recently losing control over two of their domain names on Thursday, June 26. ...

Watch out! Web?s doomsday clock is ticking - Sify

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Watch out! Web?s doomsday clock is ticking Sify, India - 8 hours ago In fact, domain names are only a convenience for people who have better luck remembering to type, say, www.google.com, than they would have trying to ... Waiting for the internet meltdown Times Online Online address registration body loses its own Economic Times all 58 news articles

Domain name decision looks like Web.disorg -- editorial - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com

Domain name decision looks like Web.disorg -- editorial The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Jul 4, 2008 The people who run the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers think opening up domain names -- those last few letters at the end of ...

SIDN quarantines expired Dutch domain names for 40 days - Telecom Paper (subscription)

SIDN quarantines expired Dutch domain names for 40 days Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Jul 3, 2008 Dutch organisation SIDN, which manages .nl domain names, intends to quarantine terminated domain names for 40 days. The object being to prevent domain names ...

What's in a name? - Globe and Mail

What's in a name? Globe and Mail, Canada - Jul 3, 2008 Proposed domain names must also be unlikely to cause confusion with other domains, and pass muster according to trademark laws, to say nothing of the United ...

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Domains Reregistered for Distribution of Unrelated Content - A Case Study of "Tina's Free Live Webcam" - - Research documenting 4525 domains registered by 'Tina's Free Live Webcam.' Each domain was previously used by another registrant, and Tina seems to have specifically sought to re-register the domains as they became available. Includes a discussion of the scope of this problem, policy implications, and possible solutions.

ICANN - - The non-profit corporation responsible for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, as well as domain name and root server system management functions.

The Register - Cracking down on cyberspace land grabs - - Reports on an IP-block hijacking when "Los Angeles County had been hit by a growing type of hi-tech fraud, in which large, and usually dormant, segments of the Internet's address space are taken away from their registered users through an elaborate shell game of forged letters, ephemeral domain names and anonymous corporate fronts." (June 11, 2003)