In what some have seen as an attempt to organise governments and country code top level domain operators independently of ICANN, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has announced a 'Workshop on Member States' E...

In an official statement Nominet - the .uk domain name authority - has called for "a significant rethink of ICANN's mission and how it has interpreted its mission" and has attacked ICANN's management of the IANA function. ...

An Internet attack flooded domain name system provider UltraDNS with a deluge of data late last week, causing administrators to scramble to keep the servers that host .info and other domains up and running. The assault se...

A leading seller of website domain names says prices are rising despite the impending introduction of a more competitive industry structure. It pays to shop around among sellers of domain names because charges range fr...

Ty Inc. v. Ruth Perryman reversed on appeal A district court judge erred in enjoining a Web site operator from using the terms "Beanie" and "Beanies" in "any business name, Internet domain name, or trademark," the Seven...

Nominet has warned Net users to be on their guard after receiving a "flood" of complaints about the sale tactics of a company called Domain Registrar Services Limited (DRS). Nominet claims DRS has been making cold call...

Fourteen months after .info top-level domain (TLD) names became available on the Internet, the millionth .info Web site was signed up last week, making it now the sixth largest domain online. Afilias Ltd., which maintain...

Congress approved legislation Friday to create a safe haven on the Internet for children, where parents can be assured Web sites are free of pornography and other material not suitable for youngsters. The measure would...

In the first such move since 1997, VeriSign has repositioned one of the thirteen key Internet domain name servers, which help to route Internet traffic, to protect against future denial of service attacks. Ten of the t...