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• Website address 'revolution' on hold

  By AAP | 01 May, 2012 08:53

  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.

• Embracing mobile site visitors: Early detection is best

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

  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.

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

  By Marc Ferranti | 14 December, 2011 03:32

  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:

• Trademark owners can block misuse in .xxx domain

  By John Ribeiro | 18 July, 2011 21:25

  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.

• ICANN approves change to Internet domain name system

  By John Ribeiro | 20 June, 2011 16:19

  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.

• P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 December, 2010 01:46

  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.

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

  By Peter Sayer | 28 June, 2010 05:10

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

• Dot-org domains can now be protected by DNSSEC

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 24 June, 2010 02:56

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

• ICANN approves first four internationalized country domains

  By Peter Sayer | 29 April, 2010 05:45

  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.

• Law enforcement lobbies hard for ICANN changes

  By Jeremy Kirk | 24 March, 2010 07:28

  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.

• Law enforcement push for stricter domain name rules

  By Jeremy Kirk | 18 March, 2010 05:04

  Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.

• Law enforcement push for stricter domain name rules

  By Jeremy Kirk | 18 March, 2010 02:27

  Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.

• Trademark issues could derail new gTLDs at ICANN meeting

  By Rebecca Wanjiku | 10 March, 2010 07:33

  Trademark protection, costs and cybersecurity threats are some of the issues likely to derail the introduction of new Internet generic top-level domains, being discussed at a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board this week in Nairobi.

• Redirecting DNS requests can harm the Internet, says ICANN

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 26 November, 2009 01:21

  ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and type a domain name that does not exist.

• ICANN approves internationalized domain names

  By Jeremy Kirk | 30 October, 2009 22:23

  Starting in mid-November, countries and territories will be able to apply to show domain names in their native language, a major technical tweak to the Internet designed to increase language accessibility.