BT is enticing customers to its free ISP, BTconnect to Business, by offering free domain names to every small business that signs up. Small businesses will get a '[companyname].co.uk' address, email and web hosting services, along with web...
At its summit meeting in Yokohama, Japan, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has decided to make new top-level domains (TLDs) available, but the organisation does not yet know how many or which ones.
The servers translate text-based domain names, such as "News.com", into the actual numeric IP addresses of servers connected to the internet, and vice versa. Over the next year, VeriSign aims to place additional replicas of one of its Domain Name...
A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over internet domain names. Among the governance options put forward by the group were a continuation of the current system, creation of a...
From April 2006, the 'land rush' phase will start and the general public will be allowed to register their domain name of choice. The period is divided into two two-month phases - the first phase will allow public bodies and trademark holders to...
But Wilde argued registrars had only "really had an advantage over the public" during the initial land-rush for dot-eu domain names, which took place earlier this year. He insisted Really Useful Domains had not even been an accredited registrar...