Paul Twomey
14 Stories
U.S. govt renews contract with Net oversight body
News Under the new agreement, ICANN will remain under U.S. supervision up to 2011.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Government
ICANN attacks 'fat and happy' IPv4 users
News Businesses need to begin thinking now beyond having IPv4 address space, says Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and and Numbers (ICANN)'s president, or risk losing online customers.
Tags: IPv6, Business Strategies & Functions, Web services, ICANN, IP, Attack, Internet Service, software, Y2K, network
ICANN and Google thwart domain-name exploiters
News The two organizations have separately introduced measures to stop the exploitation of domain names during the five-day grace period after registration.
Tags: Domain names
CEO of Internet oversight group to step down
News Paul Twomey will continue to helm ICANN until the board appoints a successor at the organization that is about to make some major changes.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, ICANN, U.S. Department of Commerce, Paul Twomey, DNS, chairman, CEO, Internet, leadership
ICANN to vote on internationalized domain names
News An ICANN voting session on Thursday could see internationalized domain names, trademark domain extensions and .xxx become a reality.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Domain Name, Domain Extension, ICANN, Microsoft .NET, board meeting, Web Address, Internationalized Domain Name, president
Web 2.0 means power and responsibility
News European Commission official Viviane Reding says Web 2.0 is creating "the people's Internet".
Tags: Web sites
U.S. Senators criticize .com price increases
News At Senate hearing, politicians ask about VeriSign's guaranteed price increases for .com, call for .xxx domain.
Tags: Domain names
ICANN bosses slam Net-phone regulation
News Lawmakers who define VoIP as phone technology will paint themselves "into a pretty big corner," Vint Cerf says.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony
VeriSign calls halt to .com detours
News VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to shut down its new Site Finder service Friday, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes.
Icann: Coders, ISPs vital to Net security
News Internet watchdog says DNSSEC encryption, which makes it harder for hackers to subvert Web traffic, will only work if developers and ISPs get behind it.
Tags: Domain names, Web 2.0, LANs and WANs, Security, Domain Name, ICANN, Internet Security, IP, DNS, Internet Service Provider
Crypto project to lock down Net security
News VeriSign and Icann have joined with two U.S. government agencies to encrypt one of the fundamental Internet protocols.
Tags: Domain names, Network security, Security implementation/standards, NIST, Security, Domain Name, VeriSign Inc., ICANN, U.S. Department of Commerce, Internet User
Kaspersky impressed by botnet slickness
News Cybersecurity expert Eugene Kaspersky says Conficker would have been nastier if the botnet had been motivated by more than just money.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Malware, Domain Name, Conference, Worm, Domain, AusCERT, Algorithm, ICANN, Ukraine
New domain names on the horizon for 2008
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is asking for public input on developing a new domain name system and expects new top-level domain names to emerge during the third quarter of next year.
Tags: Domain names, International governments
ICANN adopts new Web site naming rules
News The Internet organization loosens its rules to allow companies, cities, and others to use just about any suffix they want for a Web address.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Security, Domain Name, Suffix, ICANN, London, British Broadcasting Corp., Paris, New York City
