MetaFilter posts tagged with icann and internet

The dry, technical language of Microsoft's October update did not indicate anything particularly untoward.

The Whelk — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:40:29 -0800

Its reach is impossible to measure precisely, but more than 3 million vulnerable machines may ultimately have been infected. : The inside story on the Conficker Worm at New Scientist.

ICANN has been under pressure

finite — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:21:01 -0800

The popular online trading site eBay is one of the many companies that wants to have its own domain name. PARIS (AFP) — Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new ~~domain names~~ top-level domains, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history, a French web official said.

Verisign and ICANN

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:18:27 -0800

Bob Parsons of Go Daddy warns about the proposed contract between VeriSign and ICANN, allowing VeriSign a permanent monopoly on .COM and price increases without regulation.

Keep Internet out of UN control, says US

zouhair — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:54:26 -0800

The Bush administration is backing a US Senate resolution to stop the UN in its plans to try and move some control of the Internet away from the US -- A new resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet. Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota, said his nonbinding resolution would protect the Internet from a takeover by the United Nations that's scheduled to be discussed at a summit in Tunisia next month.

mathowie — Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:06:49 -0800

Verisign (aka Satan) is set to relinquish the management of the .org domain pool this week, after agreeing to drop both the .org and .net registries to keep the .com one until 2007. ICANN is meeting on it this week (webcast). The list of all interested parties with competing applications is here, but personally I'm pulling for Carl from media.org's proposal for a public trust. For anyone that owns a .org domain, this is one to watch.

rushmc — Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:49:24 -0800

Are national governments about to take over the Internet? Has ICANN done such a terrible job that they should be permitted to?

Steven Den Beste — Sat, 25 Nov 2000 08:14:58 -0800

Maybe ICANN really can't. There may be a revolt among all those Europeans who think that they own their parts of the Internet. (Who do they think they are, anyway? Don't they realize that they're just electronic colonies of the US?)

Actually, I'm with them; I think ICANN is getting just a little too full of itself.

tiaka — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:31:22 -0800

johnsmith.name and many more silly new suffixes. Do we need this many? I have yet to see anything good with the previous additions, it all looks a bit like those http://take.me.to/, http://fly.to redirectional services.

Aaaugh! — Fri, 10 Nov 2000 05:37:09 -0800

New top level domains? It looks like we're one step closer to the creation of some new domains. ICANN has posted their staff recommendations. How did your favorite fare?

barbelith — Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:50:00 -0800

ICANN's Report on new Top Level Domains came out a few days ago, and I saw a list in a paper of some of the new proposed TLDs. These include: .shop, .travel, .news, .sex or .xxx, .web, .arts, .store. Two things worthy of discussion - what's the difference between .shop .store and .web (and where are other CONTENT based divisions such as .gay, .fan, .info, .zine, .kids) and secondly, why are these supposedly GLOBAL domain names all in full uncompressed English?

Mick — Tue, 09 May 2000 10:34:12 -0800

To continue the theme, Yahoo starts going after "sound-alike" domains with a little help from ICANN.

mathowie — Tue, 05 Oct 1999 23:11:36 -0800

Due to the recent truce between the ICANN and NSI, new suffixes may be prevented from ever being allowed or at least delayed. It's a shame, because good URLs are running out fast and domain squatters are making a killing.