The General Services Administration released a final rule March 28 that lays out a new policy for registering .gov domain names. GSA was delegated jurisdiction of the .gov domain in 1997. The domain is used by federal ...

Internet domain names in languages other than English should be available within the next few weeks or months, the chairman of the Internet's key oversight body said yesterday. Vincent Cerf said the Internet Corp. for A...

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on a proposal that would criminalize using misleading domain names to lure unsuspecting people to sex sites. Under the proposal, a last-minute amendment to...

An end to the frustrating, illogical and frequently abused system of transferring domain names between registrars may finally arrive this week at the ICANN meeting in Rio de Janeiro. In meetings today and a council tom...

The European Commission has awarded management of the new .eu top-level Internet domain to Brussels-based consortium EURid, bringing the seemingly endless quest for a dedicated European domain one step closer to reality. ...

The closest thing the Internet has to a governing body has chosen an Australian to be its next president and CEO. Paul Twomey, an Australian Internet consultant and former bureaucrat, will take over the leadership of the...

Transferring your domain name between registrars should become a whole lot easier following next week's Icann conference in Rio De Janeiro. In a predicted breakthrough for consumer rights in the domain name market, the m...

Domain name holders targeted in yet another internet swindle Conmen have hijacked the name of domain registrar Melbourne IT in an attempt to get their hands on renewal payments for domain names. The fraudsters are ta...

The last glimmer of hope that Internet overseeing organisation ICANN may be planning to make itself more relevant was snuffed out yesterday when it chose two key people to push through this year's reform process. One r...

Singapore's Internet registry on Friday withdrew its trademark application for the country suffix for the Internet domain name of ".sg", following a hostile public reaction to the unprecedented move. Singapore applied ...

Amazon.com Inc. has quietly received the go-ahead to begin selling Internet addresses to users who want a piece of cyberspace real estate. The Seattle-based Internet retailer in early December was accredited as a so-cal...

Federal police adopt a novel crime-fighting tactic: seizing control of domain names for Web sites that allegedly violate the law. Federal police have adopted a novel crime-fighting tactic: seizing control of domain name...

Despite the popping of the Internet bubble, new registrations of ".hk" domain names continue to grow, according to the Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation (HKIRC). The period from April to December 2002 saw was ...