News tagged with icann
Internet name 'revolution' hits doubts
The body that polices Internet registrations will on Thursday launch a domain name "revolution" in the face of the concerns of global bodies ranging from the United Nations to the US Congress.
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Internet domain name expansion comes under fire
A plan to expand the number of Internet domain names came under fire in the US Congress on Thursday, a day after the head of the Federal Trade Commission said it could potentially be a "disaster."
Dec 08, 2011 |
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ICANN names Chinese scholar as VP for Asia
(AP) -- The organization in charge of Internet domain names has selected a Chinese scholar as vice president for Asia.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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First XXX domain names available for purchase
XXX now officially marks the spot for dirty sites on the Internet.
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Registration begins for .xxx Internet porn domain
Pornography dealers can start registering on the industry's own exclusive .xxx web domain on Wednesday following its approval by an international regulatory body earlier this year, the domain operator said.
Sep 07, 2011 |
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ICANN chief to leave at end of term
The head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global body which manages the technical infrastructure of the Web, has announced he will not seek another term.
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Internet address group names Steve Crocker chair
(AP) -- Steve Crocker, who as a UCLA grad student in the late `60s helped develop the foundation for the Internet today, is the new chairman of the organization responsible for the Internet's address system.
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Web address boom could be search engine boon
The decision to open the Internet to a flood of Web addresses ending in anything from company names to social movements could prove a boon to search engines.
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Coming soon to the Internet: The .whatever address
A quarter-century after the creation of ".com," the agency that assigns Internet addresses is loosening its rules and allowing suffixes named after brands, hobbies, political causes and just about anything ...
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Internet minders OK vast expansion of domain names
Internet minders voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in the system's biggest shake-up since it started ...
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Beyond '.com,' names for Antarctica, Urdu and more
(AP) -- Unless you're a Luddite, you're bound to know of ".com," the Internet's most common address suffix.
Jun 17, 2011 |
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ICANN hires hacker to keep Internet safe
The agency in charge of the world's Internet addresses on Thursday appointed veteran hacker Jeff Moss to be its chief of security.
Apr 29, 2011 |
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ICANN grants .xxx but delays opening domain gates
The group in charge of Internet addresses on Friday opened the door for websites ending with ".xxx" but delayed deciding whether to open the floodgates for other suffixes.
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Internet address warehouse empty
The global warehouse for Internet addresses ran empty on Thursday.
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Internet exhausting addresses, but no IPocalypse
The Internet is running out of addresses. With everything from smartphones to Internet-linked appliances and cars getting online, the group entrusted with organizing the Web is running out of the "IP" numbers ...
Jan 23, 2011 |
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ICANN
ICANN (pronounced /aɪkæn/, eye-can) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California, United States, ICANN is a non-profit corporation that was created on September 18, 1998 in order to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U.S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
ICANN's tasks include responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) top-level domain name system management, and root server system management functions. More generically, ICANN is responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses. To date, much of its work has concerned the introduction of new generic top-level domains (TLDs). The technical work of ICANN is referred to as the IANA function. ICANN's other primary function involves helping preserve the operational stability of the Internet; to promote competition; to achieve broad representation of global Internet community; and to develop policies appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.
On September 29, 2006, ICANN signed a new agreement with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) that is a step forward toward the full management of the Internet's system of centrally coordinated identifiers through the multi-stakeholder model of consultation that ICANN represents.
On November 3, 2007, Peter Dengate Thrush replaced Vint Cerf as Chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors.
On July 1, 2009 Rod Beckstrom was appointed as CEO/President of ICANN, succeeding Paul Twomey who served in the position from March 27, 2003 until July 1, 2009.
For more information about ICANN, read the full article at
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