Managers of the .biz Internet domain have agreed to pay roughly $1.2 million to settle charges that their system for handing out hot names such as "www.show.biz" amounted to an illegal lottery. The agreement, approved De...

In a case of deceptive marketing, Register.com scored a victory Monday after a district court issued a stay against reseller Domain Registry of America from committing any acts likely to dupe Register.com customers into er...

Seattle's Virtual Countries Inc. has won a precedent-setting legal battle in the right to use Internet domain names that contain the names of countries. The company spent so much money on this and another national domai...

Verio and Interland are two of the largest web hosting companies in the world, but they are facing tough times because of the huge down turn in hosting. Many high priced clients have simply packed up their bags and left fo...

Peter was just doing some simple administrative tasks at NamesDirect.com when a glitch brought him to a suspicious looking page full of computer code. A quick glance revealed that the firm's user name and password were exp...

Atlanta-based CNN has prevailed in the largest single domain name dispute ever heard under the streamlined dispute policy established to prevent trademark abuses on the Internet. The case, administered by the National ...

Second-level domain names in Chinese, Japanese or Korean will be abundant by late 2003, but a version of ".com" or ".museum" in any of those languages is a long way off, an executive of the group that oversees the Internet...

[url=http://www.whois.sc]Whois Source[/url]: Anyone who has ever tried to find just the right domain name for their new Website can relate to spending hours running queries against an internet "whois" database to see if...

VeriSign Inc is closing its retail domain name business in the UK with the loss of about a dozen jobs, ComputerWire has learned, writes Kevin Murphy The company, which has seen its share of the domain market steadily erode...

Internet domain name applicants in China have been authorized to add directly their organization title before the ".cn" suffix without having to specify their organizations' categories like ".com" or ".net" beginning March...

There is no "reasonable connection between pornography and narrow-minded people with intolerant views" said a three member WIPO panel in the fight for Bigot.com between a tobacco company and an online search/domain name de...

The knock-down of up to 600,000 websites of MyDomain.com and NamesDirect.com customers this week was caused by a massive Denial of Service (DoS) attack. The company released a statement outlining the circumstances, stat...

Google has launched a new service to help consumers locate and buy products on the Web Google is beta-testing a new service that uses the company's search engine to help consumers find products online. Dubbed Froogle, t...

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has announced the redelegation of .la - the country code top level domain corresponding to the People's Democratic Republic of Lao allowing it to be marketed as the new domain...

Internet professionals in New Zealand want their own second-level domain, geek.nz, as a way of deploying experimental services Professional Internet engineers and technicians in New Zealand are fighting to get their own se...

Software giant is asking a computer hobbyist who runs a Windows XP gossip site to surrender his domain name. A Dutch computer enthusiast who runs a popular Windows XP gossip Web site has been summoned by Microsoft to ha...

A WIPO panelist has dismissed a complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) after it was decided that the Policy did not apply to .eu.com domains. The dispute concerned the domain aventis.e...

Google - one of the world's most popular Internet search engines - has launched four new country-specific domains - one of which is the 'ae' domain of the UAE. The three others include Singapore, Greece and Finland. Whe...

The California company that oversees the Internet's domain-name structure has decided to keep its five democratically elected board members through early next year -- even though their terms were due to expire this month. ...

Strong forces are reshaping the Internet these days. To understand these forces--governmental, business, and technical--Richard Koman interviews the people in the midst of the changes. This month, Richard talks to Karl...

The revelation recently that most national assembly members use either Yahoo, Hotmail or MSN to communicate with colleagues or other top government officials is sending serious concern to Nigerians both at home and abroad....

It's a question that continues to plague the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), domain name registrars, the U.S. Congress and myriad federal agencies: How best to ensure the accuracy of Whois data...

The creation of a new type of Internet address Wednesday should make parents with Net-savvy children happy - and create a new set of headaches for companies posting sites for kids. President George W. Bush signed into l...

Author Michael Crichton has won control of the internet name www.michaelcrichton.com in a ruling by a UN panel. The World Intellectual Property Organisation ordered the transfer of the domain name to Crichton after he c...

When it comes to stealing domain names, I suspect that there are two reasons why so many web bandits appear to be immune from ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers uses the acronym ICANN): the firs...