• Community Experiences with the InterNIC Whois Data Problem Reports System
  The following is a report summarizing ICANN's experience with the operation of the Whois Data Problem Report system at InterNIC.net
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• ICANN Reports On WHOIS Inaccuracies
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Wednesday published the first in what will be an annual report on the steps being taken to wipe out bogus or incomplete information found in domain registrations.
  The findings? Nearly 5,000 of the 24,148 complaints dealt with domains containing incorrect or incomplete contact information -- telephone numbers, email addresses, street addresses -- of known or suspected spammers
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03/29/2004

• ICANN chief meets Annan
  THE president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has met with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the first time, amidst growing concerns about ICANN's US focus
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03/28/2004

• U.N. to ICANN: We Can Do It Better
  In a move that could dramatically change the way the internet is run, about 200 diplomats, activists and companies like Hewlett-Packard and Cisco met this week to discuss whether the United Nations should help oversee security, copyright law, technical standards and business disputes involving the Internet
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03/26/2004

• ICANN Announces Business Relationships
  ICANN announces a series of consulting agreements to enable and assist ICANN staff to move forward on a number of key objectives
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• Public Comment on Sponsored TLD Applications Opens 31 March 2004
  As previously stated, ICANN has received 10 applications for sponsored Top-Level Domain names. A public comment period will begin 31 March 2004, 23:59 UTC and will last for one month
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• ICANN defends its stewardship of the Net
  The U.S. government-sanctioned organization that oversees the Internet's all-important ``telephone book'' defended its work Friday as diplomats and computer companies considered a greater role for the United Nations
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• ICANN Concerns Raised at UN Forum
  In a speech at the United Nations, where an international group of delegates have met to discuss the UN's involvement in Internet governance, UN secretary general Kofi Annan criticized the way Internet standards are set and the domain name system is handled
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03/25/2004

• SpamHaus lobbies for .mail TLD
  The SpamHaus Project wants the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to approve its application to launch a ".mail" top-level internet domain (TLD) and provide a trusted-sender system for email. Technically the plans should be fairly straightforward, but political issues are another matter
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• Introduction to the Domain Name System
  The purpose of this article is to give system administrators new to the Domain Name System (DNS) enough basic knowledge and examples to set up and configure their own DNS servers
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03/24/2004

• A Winning Domain Name
  The domain name is one of the most important decisions you will make when trying to win over the search engine dilemma. Try using at least one of your best keywords within your domain name
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03/23/2004

• ICANN Sees Ten New TLD Applications
  The proposed TLDs are .asia, .cat, .jobs, .mail, .mobi, .post, .tel, .travel, and .xxx. They would be sponsored by the organizations that have submitted applications.
  While ICANN oversees a number of unsponsored domains, certain TLDs are sponsored by organizations that represent the narrower community that is most affected by the TLD. The sponsor carries out delegated policy-formulation responsibilities over many matters concerning the TLD
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• NetSol to Offer 100-Year Domain Term
  Domain name registrar Network Solutions (networksolutions.com) said this week that it would begin offering customers 100-year domain registrations
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03/22/2004

• New .mail top-level domain offers hope for spoiling spam
  The Internet's governing body is considering a proposal for a .mail top-level domain that could be a powerful new weapon in the fight against spam
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• Adult entertainment makes a bid for top level domain
  Will .xxx get the Icann seal of approval?
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• New mobile domain battle begins
  .Tel ICANN once, twice, three times
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03/20/2004

• ICANN to Review 10 Top-Level Domain Name Proposals
  The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Friday announced it has received proposals for 10 new sponsored top-level domains (sTLDs). The new categories include support for mobility, regions and adult-entertainment.
  The 10 new domains include: .asia (serving the Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific communities), .cat (promoting the Catalan linguistic and cultural community), .jobs (for human resource management), .mail ( for "spam-free" e-mail), .mobi (for sites promoting mobile computing), .post (providing trusted e-mail), .tel (for VOIP telephony), .travel (serving global travel), and .xxx (for adult-entertainment). Two groups are vying to sponsor the .tel domain, Pulver.com of Melville, N.Y., and Telname Ltd. London of the United Kingdom
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03/19/2004

• ICANN surveys proposed Net domains
  The Internet's real estate may soon be expanding, with the proposed addition of up to nine new top-level domains, including .jobs, .xxx, .travel and .mail
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• Build your own website: domain names
  Domain names are the internet addresses that point people to your website. "Just as postcodes are used for particular street names, computers connected to the internet have unique numerical addresses so that electronic information is delivered to the right place,"
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03/18/2004

• No Need for Top-Level Domain Extension for Mobile Content
  A group of vendors is petitioning for a new top-level domain (TLD) extension to streamline mobile access to the Internet. But the effort will only increase the burden on developers and eventually on end users
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03/17/2004

• Choosing Domain Names For Search Engine Placement
  Promotion right from the start
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03/15/2004

• Lawsuit Underlines ICANN Question
  it appears that a number of countries around the world are frustrated with ICANN, and apparently the frustration in the business community has bubbled up, resulting in legal action by VeriSign
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03/13/2004

• Domain "registration" firms keep trying it on
  UK BUSINESSES should beware of people trying to extract money for renewal of domain names meaning you may end up paying more money than you need to people you don't need to pay
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03/12/2004

• '.mobile' domain will take advice, says Microsoft
  The bid to create a top-level domain for mobile devices, announced on Wednesday, will have even more support behind it by its official unveiling on Monday, according to a Microsoft spokesman
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• ICANN: Return of the Jedi Engineers
  The not-for-profit organisation appears to be torn between market players who pull no punches and interminable government WSIS discussions on the future of the Information Society. Throughout it all, ICANN's board and its President Paul Twomey are struggling to steer the ship on a business-as-usual course
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03/11/2004

• Rivals work on mobile internet registry
  Alliance proposes Mobile Top Level Domain directory
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• Mobile industry seeks its own web domain name
  Leading companies from the mobile industry have signed a memorandum of understanding to apply for a mobile Top Level Domain ("mobile TLD") from the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) during the current application round, which closes March 15
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03/08/2004

• ICANN Says Yes to WLS
  The board of directors at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the next implementation of VeriSign's Waitlisting Service (WLS), a controversial domain name service that has sparked a number of lawsuits
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• VeriSign suit not about 'control of the internet' says ICANN chief
  ICANN claims it is "business as usual" - and says that VeriSign's recent decision to sue the organisation over the banning of its controversial site redirect service is not a battle for control of the internet
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• ICANN president denies group is a regulator
  If the Internet was the postal system, the only job of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) would be to give each letter an address, the group's head insisted Monday
  Yet, ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey realizes as much as anyone that the nonprofit group is being tugged to make decisions on issues as far-ranging as content and delivery
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03/04/2004

• Despite flak, ICANN attends to 'business as usual'
  Apparently unfazed by being hit with two fresh lawsuits calling the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) authority into question, the group's head characterized its meeting in Rome this week as "business as usual."
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03/03/2004

• ICANN't take it anymore
  Last week, VeriSign filed suit against the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in federal court. This move could signify the beginning of a dangerous drift in Internet governance.
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03/02/2004

• Prices for domain names begin to increase
  Verisign, responsible for managing domain names ending in '.net' and '.com', has revealed that prices for domain names are beginning to increase after three years of little activity
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• Higher prices for domain names signal renewed optimism
  The dot-com gold rush may be over, but territorial claims can still be valuable, if the prices of dot-com domain names are any indication
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• ICANN opens Roman Forum
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), technical and governance coordinator for the domain name system, is due to launch its latest meeting in Rome today.
  Topics for discussion include WHOIS data privacy (issues surrounding the public database of domain name ownership), implementation of the domain name transfer policy (a scheme to simplify changing the domain name registrar for a given domain name) and an update on the introduction of new Top Level Domain names
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• ICANN blind to details such as the bcc: field
  WE'D expect better, that's all we can say. Open Source has just opened the latest media missive from ICANN, the governing body for internet domain names, only to find our email address, along with those of hundreds of other media outlets, in the To: field
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• New regime for registration of .fr domain names
  Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération ("AFNIC"), the domain name authority managing the French country code top level domain, is introducing a new regime for registration of .fr domain namesd
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• Hostway Completes Acquisition of .pro Registry
  Hostway Corporation, and Register.com, Inc., announced today that the acquisition of core assets of Register.com's subsidiary, RegistryPro, by Hostway has been finalized
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• PW Registry Unveils PW Domain
  The PW Registry Corporation (pwregistry.pw) said on Monday that it plans to activate the PW top-level domain (TLD), a domain extension devoted to "communities of shared interests."
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03/01/2004

• Tug-of-war expected at ICANN summit
  A debate over whether to allow free-market or government interests to set future Internet policy will be reignited this week at a meeting of technology officials in Rome
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• PW Registry Corporation Launches New Top-Level Domain Devoted Exclusively for Online Communities and Social Networking
  The PW Registry Corporation announced today plans for the activation of the PW top-level domain (TLD), the Internet's first and only domain extension devoted to "Communities of Shared Interests". Unlike other domain extensions, such as .com, .biz, and .info, PW is aimed at providing individuals and consumer/affinity organizations a highly-personalized, permanent and portable e-mail address and a managed platform for community and social networking
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• Domain-Name Legal Dispute Widens
  "VeriSign wants to monopolize this market and put registrars out of business," says Nitin Agarwal, president RegisterSite.com. "They are changing the rules unfairly, and would essentially control any domain name that expires by eliminating any bidding on such names."
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• The domain game
  These days it is frequently only a matter of time before IT markets that are born and mature in the enterprise space spread downwards to find new pickings among SMEs. One such case could soon be domain name management
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• Domain name registrars sue Icann and VeriSign
  VeriSign and Icann are being sued by a group of eight domain name registrars seeking to stop the back-ordering services of internet domain names
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• VeriSign files federal lawsuit against ICANN
  VeriSign believes ICANN overstepped its authority in stopping SiteFinder service
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• ICANN expresses 'disappointment' in VeriSign
  The battle over VeriSign's Site Finder services continues, as the domain name regulator files for an injunction against ICANN
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