Stories about: Afilias

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Clock is ticking on .me domain names 14/05/2008 11:16:10

Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro.
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Sexy content may get dedicated home in cyberspace 07/02/2007 08:29:07

A controversial proposal to create a special domain for pornographic content on the Internet -- dubbed the .xxx domain -- appears to be gaining momentum after years of on-again, off-again negotiations with the Internet's technical coordinating body.
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Sexy content may get dedicated home in cyberspace 06/02/2007 13:31:06

A controversial proposal to create a special domain for pornographic content on the Internet -- dubbed the .xxx domain -- appears to be gaining momentum after years of on-again, off-again negotiations with the Internet's technical coordinating body.
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IE 7 drives foreign language domain names 31/10/2006 13:43:42

Microsoft's latest release of Internet Explorer will drive demand for internationalized domain names, according to industry experts who are predicting a sharp increase in sales of foreign language domain names. That's because IE 7 has built-in support for IDNs, as does Firefox 2.0, also released in October.
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ICANN accepts bids to operate .net registry 21/01/2005 09:49:30

The contest to operate the Internet's .net domain has begun, with four leading domain name service providers submitting bids to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers by the midnight Tuesday deadline.
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ISC opens Internet crisis center 21/10/2003 09:18:31

Last October's hacker attack on the global root servers that run the core addressing system of the Internet knocked out seven of the 13 servers for a time, but caused nary a problem for most Internet users.
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'.Info' Web domain addresses go live on the Internet 26/09/2001 08:10:00

After months of preparations, a few Web sites are beginning to appear online with new .info top level domain addresses that can be visited using Internet browser software.
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Domains .biz, .info go live 28/06/2001 15:39:12

Two new top-level Internet domains (TLDs) -- .biz and .info -- went live Wednesday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said in a statement Tuesday.
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Roll out of '.info' and '.biz' TLD suffixes begins 16/05/2001 08:22:45

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved plans for the .biz and .info top-level domain (TLDs) name suffixes and registration for at least one of them will start later this month, the Internet overseeing body said Tuesday.