Family First New Zealand – a political party that recently collected up to 50,000 signatures against marriage equality – forgot to renew their domain name. Instead, it was snapped up by a pro-Marriage Equality movement.Read More
Today, the government gave up the Rojadirecta fight with a brief court filing that voluntarily dismissed the case but offered few details about why it had done so after battling for over a year. Read More
Forgetting to renew a domain name can have several consequences. It can cause a loss of business, hassles in getting the domain name re-registered and a competitor may register it. Read More
According to new figures out last week, the number of disputes over domain names hit 2,944 in July 2012, compared with 2,775 in July 2011 – marking a 6pc increase on the year. Read More
ICANN is now evaluating 2000 proposed gTLD dot names. Based on the guidelines established and the choice of submissions the most names seem be straightforward cases. Read more
Local awareness and adoption of IPv6 – the ‘next generation’ Internet addressing schema – appears to be maturing, with a recent survey by the IPv6 Task Force indicating an increase in the number of New Zealand organisations planning to implement the protocol. Read More
According to ICANN’s second and latest New gTLD Update for Applicants, six applications have been withdrawn although officially it is not known which ones. And a tentative roadmap has been published that, if it holds, would see the new gTLD online in August 2013. Read More
Few weeks ago, on the AfriICANN public mailing list it was reported that Madam Anne-Rachel was officially taking up a position as the as Chief Operations Officer of AFRINIC. Read More
Few weeks ago, on the AfriICANN public mailing list it was reported that Madam Anne-Rachel was officially taking up a position as the as Chief Operations Officer of AFRINIC. This is after a long stint at ICANN where she was the Manager of Regional Relations for Africa at ICANN. It’s not clear however why her …
Ms. Olga Madruga-Forti a senior executive in the telecommunications and satellite industries from Buenos Aires, Argentina has been appointed to the ICANN Board of Directors others include Gonzalo Navarro ,George Sadowsky among others. Read More