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  • ICANN board approves settlement, price hikes

    In a rare show of internal discord, the group that sets domain name regulation has approved a controversial proposal extending VeriSign's lucrative .com monopoly and allowing for price increases for those domains.

  • VeriSign says .com redirect isn't dead

    VeriSign fired back at critics of its controversial--and temporarily suspended--domain-name redirect service, saying that Net regulators had no authority to force the company to shut it down.

  • ICANN vote to allow .xxx URLs?

    The organisation that manages the world's most important web address extensions " what goes after the dot in a URL " is to hold a vote on Thursday that could see an entire new generation of URLs made possible.

  • Hackers hijack ICANN sites

    On Thursday, the domains used by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, were hijacked to redirect users to a protest message.

  • ICANN's custom TLD will be a 'nightmare'

    The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned.

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  • Preparing for a doomsday attack

    Things could get rough if bad guys blend physical and virtual attacks, says VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos.

  • Who should govern the Net?

    ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf fires back at critics who say his organisation impedes innovation on the Internet.

  • ICANN urged to scrutinise domain claims

    An Internet taskforce is calling for increased accuracy of domain-name owner data and the elimination of bulk marketing that uses domain-name information.

  • Australian registry going global?

    An Australian domain name registry is looking to leverage its technical experience Down Under in a bid to become the registry for global top-level domain .org.

  • Managing data at Melbourne IT

    Managing data can be difficult, especially if you have almost 500 terabytes of storage and spend $10,000 a month on backup tapes. This case study looks at how Melbourne IT, one of Australia's biggest web hosting companies, handles storage

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