Jim Wagner

Equipment manufacturer Young Design, Inc. will debut its workshop for wanna-be wire-free Internet service providers (WISPs) at its company headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia on June 15. Michael Young, YDI president and founder, plans to present a workshop entitled High-Speed Wireless Internet Access on License-Free Bands, and he promises that the course is platform-agnostic, not […]

The Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers (ICANN) wrapped up its weekend meetings in Stockholm early Monday morning with a variety of decisions aimed at bringing its version of stability to the Internet. But detractors continued to debate the organization’s commitment to worldwide inclusion with policies directed at continued U.S. dominance in the Internet sector. […]

Advocates and adversaries are cranking up the rhetoric as they get ready for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers meetings starting Friday in Stockholm. ICANN officials have a raft of topics up for debate in a series of meetings that last until Monday, including the ratification of its 2001-2002 budget, finalizing approval of […]

Bluelight.com announced Thursday evening it was looking for new leadership after its chief executive officer tendered his resignation. A replacement hasn’t been named for Mark Goldstein, chief executive officer, who will continue to work at K Mart headquarters as an Internet advisor, a move officials say lets him focus on other endeavors. It was also […]

Bluelight.com Thursday announced a round of layoffs in its marketing and merchandising departments to streamline operations and improve its profitability. It’s an indication Bluelight.com and its parent company, Kmart Corp., can’t, and perhaps shouldn’t, keep its online and offline operations completely separate. As a private company, it is not required to disclose the number of […]

Covad Communications Group officials were quick to downplay the whopping $1.44 billion loss reported in its tardy year-end and fourth quarter 2000 filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday afternoon. The SEC has been not-so-patiently waiting for the 10-K report from Covad’s finance officials, even going so far as threatening delisting the troubled data […]

Criminal charges were brought against 90 people and companies Wednesday as part of a joint operation between the Justice Department and the National White Collar Crime Center — charged with cutting down on Internet fraud. Operation Cyber Loss gathered information on more than 56,000 victims of Internet fraud, ranging from online auction fraud to Ponzi/Pyramid […]

Failing competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) Teligent filed for Chapter 11 protection with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern Disrict of New York Monday morning. The announcement comes as no surprise to industry experts, who knew trouble was brewing for the former investment darling long before it failed to meet its past due notice […]

The U.S. Department of Commerce Friday approved the landmark agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign Inc., the world’s largest registrar of top-level domain (TLD) names, with few changes. However, the DoC did increase its oversight over ICANN and protect itself from antitrust litigation. VeriSign continues its domination in […]

VeriSign is finding it more and more difficult to get approval of its agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Washington, D.C. After successful talks with Department of Commerce officials Monday night, it looked like the seal of approval for VeriSign’s continued dominance in the registry and registrar industries was […]

Registries and registrars are getting ready for the big summer push of the .biz and .info domains, which was given final accreditation approval by the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Tuesday. ICANN’s great experiment, the introduction of seven “new” global Top Level Domains (TLDs), is supposed to pave the way for introduction […]

Critics are upset over the Department of Commerce’s likely approval of the contract arrangement between VeriSign and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. DoC officials met with executives at the domain registry company Monday night to address “concerns” they had over the deal that keeps VeriSign in control of both its registry and […]