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- Internet group opens door to domains beyond .com
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Get ready for ".nyc" and ".ebay." Starting in early 2009, almost any word will be able to replace ".com" in a Web page address. That opens the door for addresses such as www.restaurants.sanfrancisco or www.books.amazon. The decision was made...
- Research articles 2008-06-27
- Internet body approves domain name big bang
- PARIS AFP — Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history, a French web official said. The overhaul is expected to radically change the way users navigate the Internet and...
- Research articles 2008-06-26
- shortage of Internet addresses, The
- Terry Corbitt considers the latest challenge facing the Internet - are there enough domain names to go round? On 26 January 2007 Vinton Cerf spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Chairman of The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, and a computer scientist commonly...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Web watchdog takes on porn again.
- Jan 07, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A proposal to use a special domain name for pornographic web sites will be reconsidered. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers ICANN rejected a proposal for the ".xxx" domain name in...
- Research articles 2007-01-07
- Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites
- * Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN decides to a proposal to create a ".xxx" domain name for voluntary use by the adult entertainment industry.
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- The Internet Splits Up; The Web changed the world. Politics is now changing it back.
- Byline: Rana Foroohar With Florence Villeminot in Paris and Sarah Schafer in Beijing Sometimes it's tough to remember what life was like before the Internet. In those long-ago-seeming days, phone calls were expensive, document-shipping frequent, and we actually had to troll for random ...
- Research articles 2006-05-15
- The Internet Splits Up
- Sometimes it's tough to remember what life was like before the Internet. In those long-ago-seeming days, phone calls were expensive, document-shipping frequent, and we actually had to troll for random information in (gasp!) books. The Web made everything better. Suddenly, we could connect as often as we liked, for as...
- Research articles 2006-05-15
- Web domain '.asia' closer to reality
- The quasi-governmental organization that oversees the Internet has tentatively approved an ".asia" Web domain to unify the Asia- Pacific community, but the group has delayed a decision on whether to move forward with a ".xxx" zone for pornography sites. At its annual meeting this past weekend in Vancouver,...
- Research articles 2005-12-06
- Spinning the Web Forward
- Vinton Cerf has been dubbed the father of the Internet, a label the 62-year-old Connecticut native rejects. "There are lots of fathers of the Internet," says the legendary computer scientist who worked on the original Department of Defense project in 1973. He now holds the title of Google's chief Internet...
- Research articles 2005-11-28
- World vs. U.S. for Web Control
- Debate during a United Nations conference this month will highlight a growing rift between the United States and the rest of the world over Internet governance that could result in changes to how the World Wide Web can be used. The purpose of the World Summit on the Information...
- Research articles 2005-11-15
- Give up web domination, US told
- GENEVA AFP — The United States was isolated as it sought to defend its monopoly over regulation of the Internet against the European Union and other countries that are demanding a share of the action, officials said. "On the issue of Internet governance, very big differences of opinion exist,"...
- Research articles 2005-09-30
- Catalonia a 'virtual' nation as web lets .cat out of bag
- MADRID AFP — Web domain authorities in the United States have handed the eastern Spanish region of Catalonia 'virtual' national status by approving ".cat" for Internet sites in Catalan and pertaining to Catalan culture. "For the Generalitat regional government, this signifies that the Catalan linguistic and cultural community in...
- Research articles 2005-09-16
- US seeks delay in .xxx Web domains, citing strong protests
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States has asked the Internet's regulator to postpone the creation of a new ".xxx" domain for sex-oriented websites, citing an "unprecedented" level of protests. Michael Gallagher, assistant commerce secretary for communications and information, said in a letter released this week that more time is...
- Research articles 2005-08-16
- CALENDAR.
- * Symposium on parallel and distributed computing: An international symposium on parallel and distributed computing ISPDC will take place in Lille, France, from July 4 to 6 . The event aims to provide an interactive and high-level forum for all researchers, developers and users interested in...
- Research articles 2005-06-29
- Pornographic; Internet governance.(creation of .xxx Web domain for Pornographic sites)(Brief Article)
- The .xxx web domain raises questions about internet rules IT IS the fantasy of every purveyor of porn--and every censor of cyberspace: a way to tag web content to find it easily, or just as easily to block it. On June 1st, the Internet Corporation...
- Research articles 2005-06-11
- World v web; Controlling the internet.
- America does not want the United Nations to run the internet CONSIDER the differences: the global telephone system is co-ordinated by a United Nations agency; countries enjoy sovereignty over phone numbers, have national regulators and license operators. But the internet is managed by...
- Research articles 2004-11-20
- Commerce, not sex, on surfer's mind
- Like any new marriage, there was more, um, intimacy at the beginning of the public's relationship with the World Wide Web. Although 20 percent of all searching was sex-related in 1997, it's now about 5 percent, according to the new book "Web Search: Public Searching of the Web," co-authored by...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee: he created the Web. Now he's working on Internet 2.0
- CREATING THE WORLD WIDE WEB didn't make Tim Berners-Lee instantly rich or famous. In part, that's because the Web sprang from relatively humble technologies. Berners-Lee's invention was based on an information retrieval program called Enquire (named after a Victorian book, Enquire Within upon Everything), which he wrote in 1980 as...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- New domains open for Net users
- Soon Web sites geared to children and professionals will have top- level domain names -- the letters after the dot in Web addresses. In coming weeks two new TLDs will be launc .kids.us and .pro. On December 4, President George W. Bush signed legislation creating a domain...
- Research articles 2003-08-04
- New Fraudit Registrant Data Audit Service Now Available
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ICANN Registrar's Constituency Meeting SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 28, 2002 Fraudit Provides Registrars With Fast, Accurate Registrant Data Validation for Cost-Effectively Battling Global Online Fraud Alice's Registry, Inc., a leading supplier of domain name technology, today announced the immediate availability of FrauditTM,...
- Research articles 2002-10-28
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