The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement can no longer come back from the grave in Europe, after the European Commission dropped its bid to have the copyright treaty’s legality confirmed by the union’s top court. Parliamentarians roundly rejected ACTA back in July. They had many reasons for doing so, primarily the large physical demonstrations taking place across …
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 …
December 1st marks the beginning of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai. Fussing about the threat to the Internet posed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is reaching that state of critical mass where media outlets write about it mainly because other media outlets are writing about it. Read More
WCIT has got off to a quick and effective start. Having spent much of the past year preparing for the conference and notwithstanding a number of last-minute contributions, the governments of the world are ready for what will be a contentious conference. read more
The latest battle over the Internet ended in an éclat. On the final day of the World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, representatives from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and several other countries walked out in protest of an attempt by countries such as Russia and Iran to extend governmental control over …
Just like Christmas coming early, a new internet domain name for all things festive could be among the first to go live in spring next year. The domain .christmas is among the first wave of new internet addresses to rival .co.uk and .com planned to launch in the first half of 2013. The body responsible …
16.29% of all traffic to Affiliate Window’s 10,000 sites stemmed from mobile devices in November, the U.K. affiliate network reports. That’s up from 13.25% in October. 9.45% of traffic was on smartphones in November, up from 7.76% in October; 6.84% of traffic was on tablets, up from 5.49%, the company says. During the last week …
June 13 was a big day for the domain name industry. It’s the time of year to review what has transpired in the domain name industry over the past year and look forward to 2012. We’ll start with one of the most anticipated dates in the domain industry this year: June 13, 2012. That was …
ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will draw 1900 new sponsored top level domains (TLDs) in a “prioritisation draw”, Tuesday Australian time. Successful bidders will be chosen through a lottery draw – which means for the first time we’ll have some foresight on what kind of names we can expect to hit …
THE International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has always prided itself on being one of the most pragmatic organisations of the United Nations. Engineers, after all, speak a similar language, regardless where they come from. Even during the digital cold war they managed to overcome their differences and negotiate the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR), a binding global …