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...
A European Web publisher is planning to set up a .sex domain name for Web sites. As a domain name registrar, he would charge adult sites for the privilege of having a .sex address. Iana, under contract to the US government, is not accepting domain...
WIPO believes disputes will occur between Network Solutions and commercial domain name registrars, as they fight for equal access to the master database of Web site addresses. The organisation's report on the Internet Domain Name Process is aimed...
It says the danger of "wildcard records is that they interact poorly with any use of the DNS that depends on 'no such name' responses. Also in response to VeriSign's move, the well-respected Internet Architecture Board published on Saturday a...
A UK domain name registrar has quit the business after court action was brought against it for cold-calling customers and pretending to be associated with Nominet, the body that governs the .co.uk 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...