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ICANN Accredits Twelve New Domain Name Registrars - 📅 Jan 25, 2000 - (January 25, 2000) The Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today that twelve
additional applicant companies have met the criteria to be accredited
as domain name registrars in the .com, .net, and .org domains.

As accredited registrars, these companies
will compete in the market for domain name registration services
by participating in the Shared Registry System (SRS), which allows
multiple ...

Comment Concerning Trailing-Hyphen Domain Names - 📅 Jan 7, 2000 - Since the implementation of the Internet
domain-name system in the 1980s, the specifications published
and implemented by the Internet community have not permitted labels
making up domain names to have trailing hyphens (e.g., "example-.com").
Througout this period, the specifications for the format of domain
names have been well-known throughout the Internet technical community.
They have been set forth in several RFCs, including ...

Wikileaks Gag Sparks Freedom Debate - 📅 Jan 1, 2000 - Following an order last week from a US federal judge, the US arm of whistle-blower website Wikileaks.org was taken down, sparking a debate online concerning free speech, and whether free speech applies in these circumstances.

On Friday, February 15, Swiss bank Julius Baer (juliusbaer.com) succeeded in obtaining an order demanding that the site's host take down Wikileaks, a site that enabled insiders to anonymously leak incriminating documents to the public. Dynadot ...

Ebone To Provide Hosting, IP Services For European - 📅 Jan 1, 2000 - European Web hosting and network services company Ebone announced today that it been chosen as the European provider of Web hosting and related infrastructure for the Internet's newest Top Level Domain (TLD): .name.

The announcement came following an agreement between the GNR (Global Name Registry) and ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number) to license the world's first for personal domain registration.

ICANN selected GNR to develop, maintain and ...

UCN Colocates at ViaWest IDC in - 📅 Jan 1, 2000 - Managed hosting and colocation provider ViaWest (viawest.net) announced on Tuesday that UCN, Inc. would colocate at its Salt Lake City data center.

ViaWest says UCN will colocate its back-end and billing support systems, allowing them to take advantage of ViaWest's state-of-the-art facility and technical resources."We decided to colocate with ViaWest rather than to build our own data center due to the benefits of time and cost savings," says Scott Welch, executive ...

Qwest Eyeing XO, Reports Say - 📅 Jan 1, 2000 - Qwest Communications (qwest.com ) has entered into talks with XO Communications (xo.com ) after coming up short in its attempt to acquire telecommunications giant MCI (mci.com), according to reports.XO sells voice and data services to businesses and has a significant Web hosting portfolio highlighted by the Concentric (concentric.com ) shared Web hosting division. Qwest has been determined to acquire a significant telecommunications asset because it is concerned it will have ...

HostMySite Adds Blogs, Google Sitemaps - 📅 Jan 1, 2000 - Web hosting provider HostMySite (hostmysite.com ) announced on Monday that it had added free WordPress 1.5 Blog software with all its shared hosting plans and integrated Google Sitemaps into their customer control panel. The blogging capabilities will also be available through the hosting control panel. The company says it researched various different blog publishing platforms and settled on open source WordPress for its powerful features and ability to be integrated into a Web interface. "We id

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