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The biggest change in domain-name history is about to get underway, despite plenty of critics. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is starting the application period for new top-level domains. This will allow any company or organization, with enough money, to request custom TLDs such as .a... |
12 January 2012
07:32 GMT |
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced that it's taking over a time zone database, used by most servers, many computers and many websites worldwide, which was under threat of becoming unavailable.Time zone data is one of those things that most people don't think about ... |
17 October 2011
05:12 GMT |
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VeriSign, which is now a subsidiary of Symantec, recently filled a motion to ICANN, demanding the power to terminate the activity of any .com domain in the world if it's considered to be illegal or abusive, in the effort of aiding law enforcement officials.
According to The Register, the biggest issue rises f... |
11 October 2011
08:48 GMT |
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ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has given the go-ahead on plans to create generic top level domain names which would enable brands, organizations, governments and so on to create their own TLDs, in the likes of .nyc, .canon, .sports and so on.The idea is to enable a lot more flexibilit... |
20 June 2011
04:28 GMT |
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has named Jeff Moss, founder of the biggest computer hacker conference in the world, DEF CON, as its chief security officer and vice president.In addition to founding DEF CON, a conference attended by over 10,000 people in 2010, Jeff Moss also created t... |
4 May 2011
09:37 GMT |
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As expected, the major groups handling the inner-workings of the internet have announced that the final unassigned IPv4 address blocks have been handed over to the five regional internet registries (RIR). This marks the official, albeit symbolic, end of IPv4 and the groups focused more on the future, IPv6, rather tha... |
3 February 2011
13:20 GMT |
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There's been plenty of talk so far, but 'end is nigh,' it seems, for the last IPv4 addresses. A number of organizations who handle domain and address distribution and the general workings of the internet will get together for a joint announcement later today.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names... |
3 February 2011
01:51 GMT |
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The far-reaching arm of the U.S. Department of Justice has extended over borders to arrogantly slap a legit Spanish business in its face and take away its primary revenue source without even the common courtesy of an advance notification.The latest overnight domain name seizures swiftly executed by the ICE - Homeland... |
2 February 2011
04:47 GMT |
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The Department of Homeland Security, allegedly with help from ICANN, has seized the domain name of Torrent Finder, a torrent search engine returning results also available on Google.Since yesterday, users trying to access torrent-finder.com are greeted with a notice that reads: "This domain name has been seized by IC... |
27 November 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Internationalized domain names stirred quite a controversy when the idea was proposed but ICANN's decision to move forward faster with plans to launch the domain names for non-romanic languages seems to have been quite a success. IDN ccTLDs were made available in Russia about a week ago and there have been aroun... |
18 November 2010
12:02 GMT |
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A spam campaign currently in circulation attempts to scare users into clicking on malicious links by claiming that their domain name has been suspended by ICANN. Victims are exploited and eventually end up on a Canadian Pharmacy site.ICANN's 38th Meeting took place last week in Brussels and has attracted a lot o... |
2 July 2010
12:50 GMT |
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The Internet is bracing itself for a “historic“ change. Or, at least, that’s what the ICANN, the global authority on Internet domain names, calls it. The first country code domain names using non-Latin characters are now live, the organization has announced. The IDN ccTLDs (internationalized domain ... |
6 May 2010
08:47 GMT |
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Due to a recent surge in IPv4 allocations in Asia, in major part owed to China's Internet boom, ICANN has recently announced that the total number of available IPv4 addresses has fallen below the 10% mark and is now approximated around the 400 million mark.Not to cause any panic in IT circles, Rod Beckstrom, ICA... |
2 February 2010
08:06 GMT |
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Unsurprisingly, ICANN has approved the plan to introduce support for domain names in non-Latin characters. The move is billed as the biggest change to how the Internet works since its inception forty years ago but it is far from a done deal yet. The support will be rolled out in several stages and if everything goes ... |
31 October 2009
07:49 GMT |
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An ICANN representative has led reporters to believe that, till the end of the week, the committee might approve the usage of non-Latin characters in standard web addresses. The change, if approved, will not only be the biggest face-lift given to the Internet, but will also be the biggest technical modification done ... |
26 October 2009
11:02 GMT |
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The Internet may seem like a pretty wild and open place with no one party having too much control over it. Still, there are many asking for even more freedom especially when it comes to the domain name allocation system currently run by ICANN. Though an independent organization, ICANN still has some ties with the US ... |
25 September 2009
09:52 GMT |
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The US government isn't going to let ICANN go without a fight. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit company set up to handle top-level domain names. Founded in 1998, it's an independent organization but still has strong ties with various US government bodies through a Join... |
6 August 2009
11:22 GMT |
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the private not-for-profit organization governing domain names, has hired former US Cybersecurity Chief Rod Beckstrom as its new CEO. He will be replacing current CEO Paul Twomey, who will remain as president until the end of the year. Beckstorm has ... |
29 June 2009
05:35 GMT |
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has set out to regulate a DNS technique known as fast flux hosting, which is constantly being abused by cyber-criminals to hinder the efforts of security groups and authorities. After releasing its initial report (PDF), ICANN's Generic Names Support... |
28 January 2009
08:25 GMT |
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Following their decision to terminate the registrar accreditation agreement for EstDomains, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was looking for registrars interested in receiving a bulk transfer of all the domains maintained by the Estonian company. It looks like that registrar will be Directi... |
22 November 2008
06:56 GMT |
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It looks like crybecriminal organizations everywhere are receiving blow after blow. After having lost two of their major hosting providers in the U.S., online crooks are about to lose their favorite domain registrar, too. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced that ending the Registrar ... |
13 November 2008
05:47 GMT |
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced having halted the process of de-accrediting Estonian-based domain registrar EstDomains Inc. in light of newly received documents, according to which Vladimir Tsastsin is no longer the president of the company.Two days ago, ICANN took the decisi... |
30 October 2008
07:44 GMT |
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The Estonian-based domain registrar EstDomains was outed a long time ago by numerous security groups for providing domain registration services to cyber-criminals. An official letter sent a few days ago by Stacy K. Burnette, Director of Contractual Compliance at ICANN, informs the President of EstDomains Inc., Vladim... |
29 October 2008
09:10 GMT |
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A white paper written by security researcher Jart Armin, in collaboration with James McQuaid and Matt Jonkman, analyzes the inner-workings of the biggest cyber crime hosting company in US, Atrivo, and its associates. The paper leads to the conclusion that such companies have influence over Internet authorities. At th... |
3 September 2008
11:51 GMT |
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Not too long ago a hacker group from Turkey, calling themselves the NetDEvilz, managed to redirect traffic from the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) web pages to another site where they claimed that they were in control of the net. The corpora... |
9 July 2008
07:55 GMT |
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I think there is not one Internet user out there that enjoys having their email inbox stuffed with spam. And as most of the spam victims know, spam mail generally redirects you to a certain website, which ultimately tries to trick you into giving away your personal information or simply wants to take your money. Appa... |
28 May 2008
03:51 GMT |
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