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  • VeriSign calls halt to .com detours

    VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to shut down its new Site Finder service Friday, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes.

  • 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.

  • US government renews ICANN contract

    The US government this week renewed its contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, effectively extending its grip on the administrative body that coordinates Net addressing until 2011.

  • Special Report: ICANN

    ZDNet's Special Report brings you thorough, comprehensive coverage of the ICANN meeting being held in Melbourne this month. Get up-to-date information on the issues likely to govern the Internet as it undergoes change and repositions itself.

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