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China creates Chinese domain names

News China has announced it is creating a new set of domain names based on Chinese characters. It has created three of its own top-level domains that will use the domain names .cn, .com and .net, in Chinese.

2 March 2006, 8:31

US to retain control of Internet domain names

News At the moment, the U.S.government maintains control of the Internet's "root" -- the master file that lists what top-level domains are authorised -- but has indicated in the past that it would transfer that responsibility to the Internet...

1 July 2005, 9:38

Microsoft names its price for Vista

News Microsoft on Tuesday announced retail pricing for Vista, its long-delayed Windows update, and said it will broaden testing to more than 5 million people. Last week, pricing information had been briefly posted on Microsoft's Canadian Web site.

6 September 2006, 10:04

Microsoft names new UK boss

News Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has appointed a new head of its UK subsidiary. Alistair Baker takes over the job of managing director with immediate effect. For the last eight years he has been employed as Microsoft UK's general manager for...

30 March 2004, 16:25

ICANN asks court to reject VeriSign's case

News A not-for-profit organisation with the task of overseeing Internet addresses and domain names has taken the first step in responding to an antitrust and breach of contract lawsuit that VeriSign filed in February.

7 April 2004, 12:50

UN report challenges US control of Internet

News A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over Internet domain names. Among the governance options put forward by the group were a continuation of the current system, creation of a...

18 July 2005, 8:38

See your name in the Firefox code

News The Mozilla Foundation is offering to immortalise people's names in the code of Firefox, if they manage to persuade a friend to download its Web browser before 15 September. To commemorate the three-year anniversary of the creation of the Mozilla...

18 July 2006, 9:43

You say tomato, I say Internet Worm

News Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Computer Emergency Readiness Team plans to officially take the wraps off the effort, meant to reduce the confusion...

23 September 2005, 9:27

Dot-eu registration to begin in December

News The European Union has announced that registrations for dot-eu domain names will begin within the next few months. The 'sunrise' period, which enables rights holders to register their brands' domain names, will officially open on 7 December.

11 October 2005, 9:32

ICANN to lift price caps on .net domains

News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit organisation responsible for Internet addresses, quietly agreed to lift wholesale price restrictions on .net registry fees last month when it renewed a contract with VeriSign...

11 July 2005, 10:27

Bots play ball

News The kooky team names and oddly challenging game belie the genuine techno wizardry and teamwork on display Thursday at San Jose University's event centre, where 40 teams of all ages are playing practice rounds and refining their robots for Friday...

20 March 2006, 10:32

Adult industry celebrates .xxx rejection

News On Wednesday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted against the proposal, which would have led to the creation of a .xxx domain suffix for pornography sites. Many of the worlds biggest adult providers had agreed to...

15 May 2006, 9:04

Is video going the way of Napster?

News With that giant stack of names came the beginning of the end for freewheeling music exchange services. In May 2000, Lars Ulrich, the bombastic drummer for the band Metallica, personally delivered a list of 335,000 screen names of people suspected...

14 March 2006, 10:50

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