When Farhad Kashani posted his resume on Monster.com, the unemployed executive didn't expect to become entangled in the U.S. government's effort to isolate its political enemies. The nation's largest Internet job board ...

Louis Touton, one of the key movers and shakers at the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers, has resigned after three and a half years as VP, general counsel and secretary, he announced yesterday. Touton said: "...

Verisign-GRS the registry for .COM and .NET announced today that they will be lowering the wholesale price that ICANN Accredited registrars pay for restoring domains. Once a domain expires the registrar then deletes the...

In December Stuart Lynn asked the Internet community whether the top level name space ought to be made into a taxonomic set of categories. The concept was suggested by a Business/Intellectual Property constituency position...

The European Commission confirmed today the appointment of a Belgian-led consortium called Eurid (the European Registry of Internet Domain Names) to manage the .eu top-level domain (TLD). The .eu TLD will be up and runn...

A recent mail shot carried out by SIDN - the Netherlands naming authority - to the official email contact for every .nl domain resulted in 40% being returned as undeliverable. In January new rules and regulations relat...

Australia's top domain name registrar, Melbourne IT, is preparing to release a range of tools designed to help domain name owners protect their brands, chief executive Theo Hnarakis said today. Hnarakis, w...

For small-time speculators, buying Czech domain names can be a cheap means to a sometimes lucrative end. For companies that need the names, speculators can add up to an expensive annoyance Last month the most famous tug...

Professional practitioners now have a top-level domain reserved just for them, and the domain name industry is working hard to keep it that way. Most people probably haven't heard of dot-pro, the latest global top-level ...

Various people whose judgment I value [M. Mueller, B. Fausett] have suggested that ICANN/IANA may finally get to the issue of privacy. The ICANN Board is establishing a "President's Standing Committee on Privacy" (why t...

A long-delayed Internet domain specially designed for doctors, lawyers and accountants should be up and running by July, the domain's sponsor said Wednesday. Doctors using Web sites in the ".pro" domain will be able to ...

Following the saga over the NZ$1 million (350,000) that it was recently revealed the New Zealand government had paid for NewZealand.com, further parliamentary questions have uncovered more revelations behind the expensive ...