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A new report claims that the US government has the right to seize any .com domain name, even those hosted and owned by overseas companies, due to the domains being managed by the US-based VeriSign.

John Callaham · Mar 8, 2012 · Hot! with 20 comments

Earlier this year the Internet ran out of IPv4 addresses. Technically, that means that there is no more address space to give out on the Internet, even though ISPs are using techniques to keep the...

John Callaham · May 31, 2011 with 10 comments

25 years ago today a computer manufacturer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts called Symbolics, Inc. was the first to register a .com address on March 15, 1985. A year later and only five other companies had registered...

Tom Warren · Mar 15, 2010 · Hot! with 9 comments

Microsoft Corp. last week slammed the door on a free utility out of Australia that outflanked one the company's touted security features in Windows Vista by having the program's digital certificate revoked. LinchpinLabs' Atsiv utility,...

Christopher Vendemio · Aug 7, 2007 · Hot! with 31 comments

A leading provider of digital-security services wants to make disposable passwords easier for consumers to accept by squeezing the technology into the corner of a regular credit or ATM card. Fran Rosch, vice president for...

Tom Warren · May 1, 2007 with 3 comments

Verisign has the right to raise hosting costs 7% in four of the next six years after a December extension of a 1999 deal with ICANN granted the company control of the .com domain through...

· Apr 9, 2007 with 9 comments

Thanks to ThePitt for posting this in BPN. VeriSign's iDefense Labs is offering money for remote code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7 as a part of its pay-for-flaw VCP (Vulnerability Contributor...

· Jan 10, 2007 · Hot! with 11 comments

New Groundbreaking EV UpgraderTechnology Will Enable All IE7 Browsers on Microsoft Windows XP Client Systems to Also Display the Green Address Bar VeriSign), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure for the networked world, today announced...

Steven Parker · Dec 12, 2006 · Hot! with 9 comments

VeriSign Inc. said on Monday it would maintain control of the lucrative ".com" Internet domain until 2012 in return for dropping an antitrust lawsuit against the nonprofit body that oversees the Internet's addressing system. ...

· Oct 28, 2005 with 1 comment

Later this year, a company will be selected to run the .net domain on the internet. VeriSign has operated the .net registry since 2001 alongside the .com registry. However, exactly how certain it is that...

· Feb 4, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

VeriSign spokesperson Brian O'Shaughnessy told TechNewsWorld that the dismissal of the antitrust claim involved only one of seven claims from VeriSign in the case. "It is the antitrust claim, which has a high level of...

· May 21, 2004 with -1 comments

The original owner of the Sex.com domain name has settled his lawsuit against VeriSign, ending a protracted battle over the transfer of the domain. The settlement comes roughly nine months after the U.S....

· Apr 20, 2004 with -1 comments

One day after being sued by VeriSign Inc. over delays in approving a new service for back-ordering Internet domain names, the organization that controls the Internet's domain naming system is now being sued by a...

· Feb 28, 2004 with -1 comments

Internet infrastructure company VeriSign Inc sued a domain-name oversight body on Thursday, saying it had overstepped its authority when it prevented VeriSign from introducing new Web-address services. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names...

· Feb 26, 2004 with -1 comments

Security and billing applications maker VeriSign said Wednesday that it established a new partnership with Microsoft to build authentication services based on the software giant's Windows Server 2003 product line. VeriSign says...

· Feb 25, 2004 with -1 comments

EPCglobal, the industry organisation overseeing development of US standards for radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, has selected VeriSign to operate the root directory of RFID product codes. Security software and services provider VeriSign operates...

· Jan 15, 2004 with -1 comments

Here's more of VeriSign to spice up your daily lives! VeriSign Inc. is planning a change to a Domain Name System component responsible for coordinating updates to the .com and .net domains...

· Jan 9, 2004 with -1 comments

The Web address firm will shell out $140m for Guardent, as it seeks to expand into computer security. Internet services and Web address provider VeriSign will acquire Guardent for $140m (Â£80m) in cash and stock,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 17, 2003 with -1 comments

David Schairer, vice president of broadband provider XO Communications, is frustrated by VeriSign's decision to redirect Web surfers who mistype domain names to its own advertising-based Web site. At an unprecedented public...

· Oct 7, 2003 with 1 comment

Web address provider VeriSign Inc. said on Friday it would suspend a controversial new service that steers mistaken Web searches to its own page after the organization that oversees Internet policies demanded it do so....

Michael Stanclift · Oct 4, 2003 with -1 comments

An Internet search company on Thursday filed a $100 million antitrust lawsuit against VeriSign Inc., accusing the Web address provider of hijacking misspelled and unassigned Web addresses with a service it launched this week. VeriSign's...

· Sep 19, 2003 with -1 comments

In the last few hours, it would appear that Verisign has taken its monopoly to the next level, which in many aspects blows what Microsoft has done out of the water. Previously, when you typed...

· Sep 16, 2003 with 1 comment

Microsoft and VeriSign plan to announce on Tuesday that they will work together to offer secure Web services and enhanced digital rights management. The deal builds on technology in Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 that allows...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jun 3, 2003 with -1 comments

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Tuesday expressed concerns regarding a service launched last Friday by VeriSign Inc. designed to handle internationalized domain names (IDNs). According to ICANN, "some...

· Jan 8, 2003 with -1 comments

Global Internet services company VeriSign Inc. plans to announce today that it will open a Herndon subsidiary to handle its domain name retailing business. The subsidiary, Network Solutions Inc., has the same...

Michael Stanclift · Jan 6, 2003 with -1 comments

VERISIGN SAID THIS week that it has corrected database inaccuracies flagged by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) earlier this month, after the regulatory body threatened to strip the leading U.S. registrar...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Sep 21, 2002 with -1 comments

Thanks Joe for sending this in. Jail has put up an interesting article at NewsGeek. This is a snip of what he said: "I received this email from GoDaddy.com. If you haven't...

· Mar 25, 2002 with -1 comments

A security breach Tuesday involving Verisign's Network Solutions unit disrupted potentially thousands of domain customers, company officials confirmed today. Attackers compromised a system that hosted thousands of "parked" domains that had been...

· Mar 20, 2002 with -1 comments

In a major endorsement of security across its wares, IBM is working with VeriSign on a joint product development and sales deal that would marry VeriSign's authentication and payment services technology to Big Blue's hardware...

· Jan 19, 2002 with -1 comments

Internet address and security provider VeriSign said on Monday it bought exclusive worldwide registry rights for ".tv" Web addresses, paying $45 million for .tv Corp International. VeriSign said it expects the cash...

· Jan 7, 2002 with -1 comments

VeriSign Inc. launched a new suite of brand management services Thursday to help companies protect their brands and trademarks online from cybersquatters and other digital foes. The Digital Brand Management Services offer...

· Dec 7, 2001 with -1 comments