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ICANN May Release Single-Letter Domain Names

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The agency charged with Internet oversight may give its blessing to single-letter domain names, which have been reserved since 1993. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will decide this and other issues at a meeting in Vancouver, B.C., this weekend. Single-letter domains were set aside because of technical worries about whether the…

ICANN Changes Course on ‘.XXX’ Domain

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Raising the possibility that it will change course once again on a hotly debated move meant to give adult content Web sites their own Internet realm, the net’s governing body has decided to shelve a plan to discuss how to create a “.xxx” domain. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had intended…

ICM Registry Gets Second Wind in Fight for XXX Domain

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The Internet domain registry that sought to create a .xxx extension for pornographic Web sites is giving the effort one more try despite the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) recent denial of its request in a 9 to 5 vote. ICM Registry has asked for a reconsideration by ICANN. It also has…

US Government Renews ICANN Contract

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the agency that supervises Internet domain names, has renewed its contract with the United States Department of Commerce to continue to perform the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority function. The IANA function includes Internet Protocol address space allocation, protocol identifier assignments, generic and country code top-level domain name…

Hackers Launch Massive Attack on Internet DNS

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Hackers on Tuesday launched a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against at least three of the 13 root servers that maintain the Internet’s domain name system (DNS). The attacks, which lasted for 12 hours, reportedly targeted the server that maintains the dot-org suffix, and the servers at the Department of Defense and the Internet Corporation for Assigned…

Microsoft Hits Cybersquatters With Multiple Lawsuits

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Cybersquatters, typosquatters and domain tasters were targeted by Microsoft Wednesday in a series of lawsuits filed in California, Washington and the United Kingdom. “Domain name abuse is a growing global challenge, and so Microsoft is expanding its efforts in this area for two reasons,” explained Microsoft Senior Attorney Aaron Kornblum in a video posted on…

ICANN Axes .XXX Domain

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

For the third time, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the overseer of the Internet’s domain-name address system — has rejected a proposal to create a top level .xxx domain, and opponents of the adult-themed suffix hope three times is the charm. “This decision was the result of very careful scrutiny…

Internet Patriarch Cerf Leaves ICANN, Sets Sights on Space Web

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Vinton Cerf, known by many as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, will be stepping down at the end of this week as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Cerf, who is also Google’s vice president and chief Internet evangelist, has served for three consecutive…

ICANN Approves Dot-KitchenSink Internet Address Policy

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The universe of Internet domains will soon experience a Big Bang, thanks to Thursday’s vote by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approving a new system for handing out Web addresses. Corporations and other public and private entities will no longer be limited to Web extensions like .com, .net or .org; for…

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