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  • IPv6 migration begins as ICANN updates servers

    The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the Internet protocol.

  • ICANN: IPv4 will run out by 2011

    Big businesses need to start planning now to handle changes that will take place when a new version of the Internet's fundamental routing protocol becomes ubiquitous, or risk losing online customers, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

  • .NSW, .Uluru, .Oz, .footy domains coming in 2009?

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in internet history, a French web official said.

  • ICANN readies for next-generation Net

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers last week said it was ready to start assigning Internet addresses using the latest version of Internet Protocol, IPv6.

  • 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.

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