A 16 year-old Canadian student is holding Apple Computer to ransom over a domain name that was registered following the launch of the iMac. In response, Apple lawyers have written to the Calgary student, accusing him of cyberpiracy and asking him...
The hijackers then sent NSI an email appearing to come from the 'correct' domain, requesting that the registration details and DNS server be changed. Cheryl Regan, head of corporate communications at Network Solutions, said: "Emphasis needs to be...
ICANN's formal agreement with domain name registrars says customers must provide "accurate and reliable contact details and promptly correct and update them during the term of the.registration" or risk losing their domain.
Newly independent Iraq has asked for control of its .iq domain name. It took Afghanistan only six months to gain control of its .af domain name; the application by Iraq's National Communications and Media Commission is said to have taken a few tips...
Internet regulator Icann has decided to give control of Iraq's domain name dot-iq to an Iraqi government body, the National Communications and Media Commission (NCMC). The web watchdog had suspended the dot-iq domain name since 2002, when several...
Icann regulates internet domain name and address registration and operates one of the main so-called root DNS servers. The distributed denial of service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) proved the effectiveness of the Anycast load-balancing...