An assault on all 13 domain-name service root servers attempts to shut down the address books of the Internet. An attempt to cripple the computers that serve as the address books for the Internet failed on Monday. The s...

FTC forces spammer to refund domain fees The United States' Federal Trade Commission has forced a British entrepreneur who sold domain names that did not work to repay his proceeds to his victims. As reported by Dem...

PARIS -- Even advocates of private-sector management of key Internet resources describe the experience to date as disappointing, while some term it an outright failure. But as the body known as Icann tries to debug its ove...

MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union dissolved more than 10 years ago, and the dot-su Internet domain may finally follow. A spokesman for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced recently at a Mo...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of computer professionals Monday won control of the ``.org'' Internet domain, home to millions of nonprofits and community groups. The Internet Society, a group of 11,000 engineers and oth...

Domain name registrar Internetters has launched an antivirus and spam-detecting service for its customers. The domain name and website hosting company believes it is the only UK registrar offering to check all mail that go...

Users of the World Wide Web already know dot-com, dot-edu, dot-gov and dot-org domain names. Now, Las Vegas-area airports including McCarran International have staked out eight of the first 1,745 addresses in a new"dot-...

Hanna Barbera has appealed against the Nominet Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) decision Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc -v- Graeme Hay (see: Zoiks! Scooby-Doo domain dispute decided - 23rd July, 2002) which it lost last mon...

Domain registrar giant VeriSign Monday has settled its lawsuit with smaller Scottsdale, Ariz.-based rival Go Daddy. According to terms of the settlement, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company will no longer send "renewal...

Some applications for Australia's new generic names could be ruled invalid after last week's rush to buy a stake in the internet. Nearly 3,000 previously banned generic domain names were sold by the Australian domain na...

ICANN accredited domain name registrar Dotster Inc. (Dotster.com) announced on Monday that it has added 12 new country code top level domains (ccTLDs) to its registration offerings, including the popular .co.uk, .de and .d...

An Ericsson employee has patented what he sees as a cure for the current Internet naming system, which has spawned problems like Jerry Falwell's lawsuit over jerryfalwell.com and people stumbling onto pornographic sites th...

So just under 100 law firms nationwide ended up before the National Arbitration Forum in Minnesota, a nonprofit organization approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), to get its name back...

Tensions between the board of Ireland's .ie domain registry and its chief executive came to a head on Wednesday, culminating in the suspension of CEO Mike Fagan. Spokespeople at the IE Domain Registry, the company that con...