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...
Just when you thought you'd had your fill of domain name controversies another one comes along to join in the fun. Icann may not be an organisation that inspires great devotion, or even interest, in most internet users but the domain name body has...
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...
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 software company from Bournemouth has beaten the UK government in a fight to keep its domain name. The domain name in question is fsa.co.uk licensed to Findlay Steele Associates in April 1997 but a problem has arisen due to a clash with finance...
The domain name free-for-all will kick off in earnest in April 2005. One of the first tasks that the consortium will be faced with is choosing the registration offices, who will be authorised to collect the domain name requests.