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Week in review

Week in Review: The election, the iPad and internet history

This week in IT, iPad sales hit the million mark, internet history was made and the election was everywhere.

By Tom Brewster, 7 May 2010 at 16:40

Public Sector/News

Internet

ICANN opens 'costly' gTLD sales

Companies will have to pay $185,000 to get their hands on a personalised TLD.

By Tom Brewster, 12 Jan 2012 at 10:52

Desktop Software/News

security threat

ICANN's global domains could increase phishing attacks

Allowing different character sets on the internet could leave users open to new kinds of phishing and web attacks.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 3 Nov 2009 at 11:16

Public Sector/News

Panic button

Don’t panic: IPv4 addresses running out

Businesses have been advised not to panic about IPv4 addresses running out.

By Tom Brewster, 4 Feb 2011 at 16:54

Public Sector/News

Malicious websites

eNom accused of being number one for malware sites

Being the host with the most is not so good for eNom.

By Eric Doyle, 23 Aug 2010 at 14:54

Security/News

world wide web address

Kaminsky flaw fixed for .com and .net by 2011

Verisign anticipates an industry-wide effort to finally rid the net of the Kaminsky flaw.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 16 Nov 2009 at 15:44

Public Sector/News

Mobile networks are creating a ‘real-time’ future

Imagine Facebook meets National Statistics – mobile is looking to change the way data is gathered, analysed and acted upon.

By Asavin Wattanajantra, 26 May 2009 at 12:24

Networking/News

Stephen Pritchard

Has ICANN opened the door to a load of dot whatnots?

Inside the Enterprise: ICANN's new global Top Level Domain system sounds obscure, but could prove a headache for businesses.

By Stephen Pritchard, 23 Jun 2011 at 16:35

Networking/News

XXX neon sign

Brands urged to safeguard .xxx domains

"Sun rise" period extended to quell fears of cyber squatting.

By Stephen Pritchard, 18 Jul 2011 at 12:35

Networking/News

Cyber crime

‘Climate of fear’ is best weapon against cyber crime

A member of the Serious Organised Crime Agency has claimed cyber criminals are best tackled through fear of prosecution.

By Jennifer Scott, 16 Mar 2010 at 12:07

Security/News

web address

EU adds new characters to domain names

Greek, Cyrillic, and other different character sets will now be able to work on the '.eu' domain.

By Nicole Kobie, 10 Dec 2009 at 17:12

Networking/News

World Wide Web

Business unprepared for internet liberalisation

A report out today from Gandi shows business is unaware of the changes coming to domain names next year.

By Jennifer Scott, 9 Jun 2009 at 09:13

Networking/News

Microsoft offers $250,000 Conficker bounty

In an attempt to combat the worm that’s been plaguing the internet, the software giant is offering a $250,000 reward for information on the gang...

By Miya Knights, 13 Feb 2009 at 12:04

Security/News

The continued curse of cybersquatting

For some, it’s a problem confined to the early days of the Internet. But current figures suggest that the cybersquatting problem is, if anything,...

By Simon Brew, 7 Jan 2009 at 13:13

Networking/Analysis & Insight

Internet

Non-Latin web addresses go live for first time

Icann has announced the introduction of non-Latin web addresses, a move hailed as “a major turning point in the history of the internet”.

By Tom Brewster, 6 May 2010 at 15:25

Networking/News

web

ICANN: Most web domain registrations are faulty

A new report on the accuracy of domain registrations has found 77 per cent of records have information that is missing, incorrect or deliberately...

By Martin James, 17 Feb 2010 at 10:59

Networking/News

Internet

London and Scotland after own domain names

Cities and countries are looking at getting their own TLDs, with Icann set to open the submissions process soon.

By Tom Brewster, 26 Sep 2011 at 10:21

Public Sector/News

web address

ICANN: Domains to go multilingual by year end

Domain names will be able to use non-Latin scripts by the end of the year, according to ICANN.

By Nicole Kobie, 26 Oct 2009 at 14:49

Networking/News

Domain Names

ICANN board approves domain name expansion

The internet domain naming authority has paved the way for an explosion of new top level domains and other addresses.

By Miya Knights, 27 Jun 2008 at 10:10

Networking/News

ICANN logo

ICANN proposes major domain name changes

The proposal to allow users to create their own top level domains could offer up millions of new variations for web addresses.

By Danielle Nordine, 23 Jun 2008 at 15:14

Networking/News

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