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Article | 25/04/2013 ICANN announces opening of Istanbul office as part of globalization effort
As part of ICANN's efforts to become a more global organization it detailed plans on Thursday for its new office in Istanbul.
Article | 3/04/2013 In wake of gTLD security criticism, ICANN announces emergency back-up registry operators
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names wit...
Article | 20/03/2013 ICANN's new CEO pledges to keep the Internet intact and open
ICANN's new CEO Fadi Chehadé, who took over in October, is on a mission to help politicians around the world understand the importance of keeping the ...
Article | 18/03/2013 Internal-use SSL certificates pose security risk for upcoming domain extensions
The practice of issuing SSL certificates for internal domain names with unqualified extensions could endanger the privacy and integrity of HTTPS commu...
Article | 12/03/2013 African domain-name registrars have mixed reaction to ICANN push
African domain-name registrars responded with mixed reactions to details of ICANN's initiative on the continent, saying that while they should now hav...
Article | 13/12/2012 Vint Cerf: The Internet doesn't need the ITU's help
Work under way to draft new regulations at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this week could harm the Internet,...
Article | 22/11/2012 Australians gripe about negative top-level domain proposals
Governments around the world have lodged complaints about a wide variety of proposals for new top-level Internet domains. Australia is the biggest com...
Article | 14/12/2011 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 s...
Article | 18/07/2011 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 ...
Article | 20/06/2011 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 na...
Article | 1/12/2010 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, ...
Article | 28/06/2010 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.
Article | 24/06/2010 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 Extens...
Article | 29/04/2010 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 ...
Article | 24/03/2010 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 n...

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