Disputes over internet domain names have hit a record high over the last 12 months, experts have said. Legal information provider Sweet & Maxwell said that such disputes adjudicated by the World Intellectual Property Organisation hit 2,944 in the 12 months to July 2012, a 6% increase from 2,775 in July 2011. Read More
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on the Domain Names markets. Number of Domain Names registration worldwide is projected to exceed 305 million by 2018. Apart from launch of new Top Level Domains and approval for new Internationalized Domain Names by ICANN Read More
How will faith be presented on the Internet? Recent moves by the ruling body that oversees the Internet have allowed for the most dramatic expansion in the Internet since it was created: an almost limitless number of top-level domains are now possible, to join the classics such as .com, .edu and .net Read more:
The Internet has gone through its own “what good is it?” arguments since its conception in the 1990s but time has since proved most of those critiques to be short-sighted. Today, online usage has gone from a little over 360 million to a staggering 2.2 billion people worldwide. Read More
UniForum SA is set to increase its tariffs and will also shorten the period in which customers can pay for their .co.za domain, according to proposed policy changes. The following changes are proposed to be implemented from 1 March 2013 with the annual fee increasing from R50.00 to R75.00 Read More
The 2012 ICANN Nominating Committee better known as (NomCom) has completed its selections for seven leadership positions within ICANN. The NomCom Chair, Vanda Scartezini, said in part ,”It was a very interesting experience, especially the opportunity to work with very qualified people and a staff that is always focused on making things work.” Read More
Even though your published story written by Mr. Gareth Van Zyl is quite balanced, we wish to use this opportunity to provide some relevant comments that would help to further elucidate this issue for the interest of your readers and the global Internet and African public. Read More
13 June 2012, ICANN posted all the applied-for strings to the Application Results page of the site. On this page you will find high level statistics about the overall program as the applications work their way through the evaluation process. Read More
But that’s not what’s prompting a huge expansion of Internet domains right now. As you may have heard, the relatively manageable list of “generic top-level domains” (gTLDs) that we’ve all mastered over the last couple of decades, such as .com, .net, and .org, is set to expand dramatically starting next year. Read More
It looks like everyone is dropping their .co’s. So is this the end of .co? I hope not but it sure looks like it… Rick Schwartz’s blog is running a contest to see if anyone can guess how many .co’s dropped in the month of August. Read More