Whois Privacy is very important to owners of domain names, they don't like their home address to be shared just because they own a domain name. ICANN the organization in charge of overseeing domain names has a rule that fo...

Register.com, Inc. a leading provider of global domain name registration and Internet services, today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the preliminary injunction granted by ...

Domain name registrar Network Solutions has a message for Google: Don't mess with our Whois. The issue cropped up about two weeks ago, when Google quietly launched a service allowing visitors to look up data on domain ...

The Canadian teenager whose mikerowesoft.com website ran afoul of the legal beagles at Microsoft Corp. reached an out-of-court agreement with the giant software company Friday. In return for picking a new name for his ...

A Vancouver Island high school student who does Web site design part-time is locked in a legal battle with one of the biggest companies in the world. Microsoft Corp. of Seattle, currently valued at $300 billion US, want...

Two Internet entrepreneurs are suing Network Solutions and Register.com for allegedly infringing on their e-mail and domain naming patent. Troy K. Javaher and Frank M. Weyer, operating under the newly formed company Ni...

The registry that manages the .hk domain has set out a revised timetable for the launch of the second level .hk domain, inviting trade mark owners to step forward from 26th January and opening the domain to public registra...

InternetNZ is reducing by 12.5% the wholesale domain name fee charged to authorised .nz registrars by nz Registry Services (NZRS). The President of InternetNZ, Keith Davidson states "The InternetNZ Council is pleased to...

The estate of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien has won the rights to the use of the Internet domain name www.jrrtolkien.com, previously registered by an Alberta company. The World Intellectual Property Organizati...

VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number format and "minimum" value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on or shortly after 9 February 2004. The current serial number format is YYYYMMDDNN...

European companies and individuals will be able to use .eu domain names from November 2004. Anyone living in the EU as well as any business with its headquarters, central administration or main base in the Union will be...

The internet is set to become the basis for just about every form of communication, according to net pioneer Vint Cerf, and he should know what he is talking about. No matter how long you have been using the net, it is a f...