The major trends of 2012 — social media, cloud services, media streaming and mobile everything — are reflected in our choices. Many of these developments will gain even greater significance in 2013. Hardware and software products are “merging into services,” writes Gartner analyst Gregor Petri in a recent blog post. This increased complexity provides potential …
Fundació puntCAT requests the removal of the cross-ownership restrictions reflected on the 23 September 2005 contract signed between ICANN and Fundació puntCAT. (http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/registries/cat). This request is submitted according to the “Process for Handling Requests for Removal of Cross-Ownership Restrictions on Operators of Existing gTLDs” read more
When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released the list of the potential new generic top level domains (gTLDs), it seemed that .app was the one to watch: no less than 13 organisations applied to manage the domain. But .africa is also causing some trouble, as the two organisations that applied for …
Domain names can cost as little as $2. But if they’re highly desirable, they can be sold for millions. DN Journal keeps tabs on all domain name sales and updates its year to date sales list weekly. In 2010, Sex.com became the most expensive domain name in the world when it sold for $13 million. By comparison, …
Even as the Internet keeps growing and evolving, the fallout from major regulations expected in 2013 threaten to change its very nature. The dust has yet to settle in the wake of the contentious International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) conference in Dubai, but its repercussions could spit the Internet into two parts: read more
Incredibly, there are now over 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions globally, and almost a billion of them are Smartphones. These are dominated by Android and iPhone devices, which is no surprise; whether Windows 8 can make an impact has yet to be determined. read more
It was a unanimously 397 to Zero (o) vote in favor of a resolution by the US House of Representatives urging the U.S. government not to give the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Unionj (ITU) control over the Internet. The WCIT conference that started on Monday 3rd ended on December 14. According to the House’s website, the bill …
Undoubtedly, Nii’s active interest and influence on the whole .africa project can be established by his early support to his own project and as member of the AU Task Force when he used his influence with his Minister to endorse AFTLD, also as a member of AFTLD which was interested in a bid for .africa at the …
. When I first read DomainIncite’s blog titled .africa applicant caught using fake identity which some list members were referring to event as a high class gossip, I got curious to click on the links his blog cited, and was unbelievably surprised to read one of the the most active assault and hackling on DCA and its Principal was coming from Nii Quaynor. …
ICANN directors Mike Silber and Chris Disspain have updated their official statements of interest — used to identify potential conflicts on the board — after a complaint from a .africa applicant. The new SOI statement more clearly specifies the relationship between South African ccTLD policymaker ZADNA — for which Silber acts as treasurer — and …