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  • ICANN gets commerce blessing on VeriSign

    After five days of talks and some changes, the Department of Commerce has given its approval to an agreement between VeriSign and the Internet's domain name management body that would allow VeriSign to maintain control over dot-com, the most popular group of Internet domain names, for the foreseeable future.

  • Australia goes slow for dot-info

    Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world in the rush to register with the new global top level domain (gTLD) .info.

  • The Year 2000 in review

    The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

  • Melbourne IT lobbies ICANN

    A group of companies that register global Internet domain names are calling on the Internet's domain name management body to reject a controversial agreement with the biggest player in the market.

  • ICANN rewrites its own rules

    ICANN has changed its bylaws so recently elected members representing Internet users won't be able to vote on adding new domains.

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