Existing Internet domains like "dot-com" and "dot-net" could get some new company as early as 2005 under a policy adopted by the the group that oversees the Internet's addressing system. The board of directors of the In...

Individuals and small-business owners should be able to buy domain names without being required to divulge their mailing address, phone number and e-mail address, an international coalition plans to say in a letter Tuesday...

VeriSign, Inc, the leading provider of critical infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell the Network Solutions business unit to ...

VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many .com and .net domains, company representatives said Wednesday. Speaking before an unusual...

After significant public and regulatory opposition, and in danger of being found in breach of its government agreement to operate the Internet Shared Registry, VeriSign removed its controversial SiteFinder "service" this p...

The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) escalated its war of words with VeriSign Friday, with a letter demanding the company suspend its controversial SiteFinder service. "ICANN is disappointed that V...

Web address provider VeriSign Inc. on Friday agreed to suspend a controversial new service that steers mistaken Web searches to its own page, acceding to a demand by the body that oversees Internet policy. Earlier on Fr...

VeriSign, Inc., the leading provider of critical infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced that it will temporarily suspend its Site Finder, a new service to improve Web navi...

Last month the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that sets policy for the Domain Name System directory service, lost face in a battle with VeriSign Inc., the company that manages the reg...