Domain Names News Archive

• 'How to Listen to the Individual Internet User (CircleID)The recent ICANN meeting in Vancouver touched upon many issues important to ordinary Internet users: privacy in domain name registration; the cost and terms of .com domain names; internationalized domains; introduction of new domain suffixes.



• 'Police domain names send web users on political detour (CBC British Columbia)A B.C. man is using web addresses that appear to be police departments in Vancouver and several other Canadian cities ? to send people straight to the main website of the federal NDP.



• 'ICANN told to clamp down on dodgy domain names (ZDNet India)More than 8 percent of all Internet domain names are registered with false or incomplete information, according to a U.S. government study into the prevalence of phony Web sites.



• 'Companies urged to secure eu domain names (Irish Examiner)The first phase of eu domain name registration begins today, with EU Internet, an Irish accredited registrar appointed to manage eu domain applications.



• 'Millions Of Domain Names Registered With False Contact Data, GAO Says (Security Pipeline)Those seeking to register the Website names likely provide inaccurate information to hide their identities or to prevent members of the public from contacting them, a Congressional auditor suspects.



• 'Yesterday at 11:00, EURid opened its systems to receive applications for .eu domain names. (Web Host Directory)Some 800 Registrars in 25 countries are still sending in the applications they received from numerous candidate domain name holders all across the EU.

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