ICANN Announces DNSSEC Internet Security Upgrade

From later this month, Google has decided to stop providing its popular Gmail app for BlackBerry. This can be viewed as a shock for RIM as they are putting in strong efforts to prevent customer defections to handsets that run on...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has started accepting applications for the controversial .xxx domain names, which will be launched on December 6. Internet registries like Domain.com and ICM...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) named Jeff Moss as their new Vice President and Chief Security Officer. The irony is that the person ICANN has chosen to keep internet safe, is himself a hacker who...

Wales has lost its battle with the Cayman Islands to secure the “.cym” domain name for Welsh internet addresses. After four years of trying to secure the “.cym” domain name, Welsh hopes were thwarted...

Europe has proposed an Internet Treaty to protect the net from political interference which threatens to break it up.The draft international law has been compared to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which sought to prevent space...

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has purchased the internet domain name blackpad.com, indicating that the the company may soon launch its own tablet device. RIM acquired the rights to the domain name on 8 July 2010, with...

Two US Congressmen have launched a privacy inquiry into a recent change to Apple's user terms of service, which require users to agree to the company sharing information about their location.Micro-blogging giant Twitter has...

Police proposals to prevent criminals from running shady websites will force anyone applying for a web address to follow security procedures similar to those used by banks. The proposals will require Internet domain name...

The Internet's critical domain name system is under constant attack and could buckle at any time, according to ICANN president Rod Beckstrom. His remarks, made at a meeting between ICANN's board of directors and...

Attendees are pulling out of a key Internet policy conference after suicide bomb threats were made against the venue.  Market-leading domain name firm Go Daddy this week vowed to keep its troops at home, rather than ...

An ICANN study of more than 600 domain name registrations has found no evidence of front-running, the deceptive name registration process that has long been suspected but not proved by the domain name community. Some people who...

A Radical transformation in the way we use the internet could be at our doorsteps, as Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given a green signal to bring upon customizations of web-addresses. Initially...

Registering and re-registering your domain names will become more expensive as Verisign, which manages the generic top-level domains dot.com and dot.net, increases the price of base registration fees. Registrars such as Godaddy...

A committee of the body responsible for the internet's addressing system has found no evidence of front running, a form of deceptive domain name acquisition.Front running has long been rumoured to be in operation by unscrupulous...

The body that regulates the structure of the internet is investigating whether unscrupulous operators are stealing domain name ideas from customers.The Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) of ICANN (the Internet...