Domain Registrants may be learning of a new ICANN Domain Name transfer policy the hard way by losing their domain name unless they either set their domain names to registrar-lock, or proactively monitor and respond "NO" ...

The net is only in the Bronze Age of evolution, according to the pioneer who invented the Domain Name System (DNS). In 1983, Dr Paul Mockapetris created the now familiar system which gives net pages names such as ".com" ...

The world's biggest domain name registrar is outraged over the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers' proposed 2005 budget, which Network Solutions Inc's CEO said levies an illegitimate "tax" on domain name holders....

Hostway Corp., a leading provider of Web hosting and other managed services, today announced that it will provide Internet domain name registration, domain forwarding and email services to eBay Store sellers. eBay, Th...

The European Commission has published the public policy rules concerning the implementation and functions of the ".eu" top level domain in the EU Official Journal. The ".eu" domain is intended to provide a European int...

The original owner of the Sex.com domain name has settled his lawsuit against VeriSign, ending a protracted battle over the transfer of the domain. The settlement comes roughly nine months after the U.S. Ninth Circuit ...

NEW YORK--A task force that intends to increase the United Nations' involvement with running the Internet is convening here Thursday, its first meeting since VeriSign filed a lawsuit against the group that now oversees dom...

Just a day after being sued by VeriSign Inc. over delays in approving a new service for back-ordering Internet domain names, ICANN, the organization that controls the Internet's Domain Name System, found itself being sued ...

The dot-com gold rush may be over, but territorial claims still can be valuable. Dot-com domain names are fetching respectable prices again, after more than three years of attracting scant interest. Names like Truck.com...

A Florida man has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for registering misleading domain names on the Internet so that children looking for popular sites such as Disneyland would find pornography instead. John Zuccarini,...

One day after being sued by VeriSign Inc. over delays in approving a new service for back-ordering Internet domain names, the organization that controls the Internet's domain naming system is now being sued by a group of e...

In a move that could spur changes in how important aspects of the Internet's technical workings are managed, VeriSign Inc. said it plans Thursday to file a broad antitrust lawsuit against the Internet Corp. for Assigned N...

The overseer of the Internet's domain naming system is closer to approving a controversial service for back-ordering Web addresses. The subject of past lawsuits and congressional hearings, the wait listing service, or ...

The company that epitomised the rise and fall of the dotcom sector in Australia, Melbourne IT, has put its past behind it and returned to profitability, announcing a final dividend of 2 and promising better times ahead. ...

Renewal volumes and overall growth drive up domain name business Strong growth in domain registrations saw 2003 end as a record year for web domain registrations, according to domain name registry VeriSign. Total dom...

Dear Dr. Twomey: This firm represents an ad hoc coalition of ICANN-accredited registrars organized for the purpose of challenging Verisign's proposed Wait Listing Service ("WLS"). The WLS purports to offer consumers a ...

Register.com Inc is to dispose of its right to operate the long-delayed .pro top-level internet domain, under a sale for an undisclosed sum to Registry Services Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of HostWay Corp, a Chicago-ba...

A few ex-SnapNames employees Ron Wiener (former CEO), Len Bayles (former CTO), and Cameron Powell (former VP of business development) have joined forces with Charlie Kawasaki the former CEO of Portland's Rulespace. Their c...

Late last year, one exceptionally lucky guy in Florida managed to sell his domain name for $1.3 million (he bought men.com in 1997 for $15,000). Now folks are thinking the dot-com gold rush is back on, and they're ready to...

The owner said he won't sell it unless he knows who's buying The domain name for the pornographic Web site WhiteHouse.com, which is often confused with the government site whitehouse.gov, is now up for sale. "[The o...

German web host Strato is battling with its former partner, US-based domain name registrar Network Solutions (NSI), over 240,000 web site addresses. Strato formerly had a resale agreement with NSI, and registered all i...

"Site Finder was not controversial with users, 84 percent of whom said they liked it as a helpful navigation service," said Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president of government relations. "We continue to look at ways we can...

A proposed new law, The Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act, designed to combat identity theft, will bring down harsher penalties on perpetrators of domain name fraud, according to a report published last week by Medi...

The EURid, the consortium appointed by the EU to manage the .eu domain, tries to keep smiling. Still, Fay Howard, project manager of the registry, could not restrain herself at last week's Digitial Pulse conference in Zuri...

The e-mail system for writers and editors at The Washington Post failed Thursday for hours because the newspaper did not renew its Internet address, the company said. Network Solutions, which handles domain-name registr...