After four years of debate and negotiation, the global organization that regulates domain names Thursday said it has reached an agreement to let more groups participate in decisions affecting how the Internet is run. M...

Internet domain registrar Melbourne IT Ltd announced today that it would provide domain name registration services to Microsoft Corporation. The company said the global agreement may take some time before it affects Me...

Domain Name Retailers Say Proposal Will Help VeriSign, Hurt Them. A plan to tame the speculative feeding frenzy that surrounds expiring "dot-com" Internet addresses came under fire today from two lawmakers who said the ...

Two congressmen introduced a bill Thursday that would block an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers plan to give control of all expiring domains ending in .com and .net to VeriSign. The bill also calls fo...

At the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) meeting in Montreal later this month, a task force will be formed to review the privacy issues surrounding the management of the Whois database, and the t...

The US Supreme Court has rejected the appeal by Stephen Michael Cohen in the sex.com case. The decision brings to a close two years of pointless legal argument and leaves the way clear for sex.com owner Gary Kremen to ...

The US Court of Appeals has handed back the domain Barcelona.com to its original owner after three years of protracted, convoluted and insidious legal argument. The decision on 2 June 2003 "reversed, vacated and remand...