ICANN has published the Alternate Path to Delegation Reports and lists of Second-Level Domains (SLDs) to block for all eligible proposed new gTLDs. Nearly all of the applied for new gTLD strings have been found eligible to proceed with the Alternate Path to Delegation prior to receiving their Name Collision Occurrence Assessments. The Alternate Path …
In this column, Johan Galtung, director of the TRANSCEND Peace University and author of 50 Years – 100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives (www.transcend.org/tup), writes about the U.S. empire’s spying, and other debacles. WASHINGTON, Nov 14 2013 (Columnist Service) – The linchpin of an empire is the link between two elites, one in the imperial centre, …
Buenos Aires, Argentina… The future of Internet governance took on a new priority at the opening of ICANN‘s 48th Public Meeting, ahead of an April conference on Internet governance in Brazil. More than 1,700 people from around the world are attending the ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires. “ICANN is part of an ecosystem, and the …
A GTLD domain name news article on the DomainIncite.com domain industry blog reveal interesting information about the cost of buying some of the new GTLD names that are soon to be available for business use. According to the article “There’s a provision in section 2.10 of the contract that is designed to “prohibit abusive and/or …
Technology is South Africa’s biggest area of economic underperformance, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs. The report, entitled ‘Two Decades of Freedom’, highlights South Africa’s achievements since the establishment of democracy in 1994 and the challenges the country still faces. Though it said South Africa has made significant advancements in the last 20 …
There is a lot more, that the registries and registrars of new internet top level domains (like .berlin, .ngo or .ninja) need to do, to make the new names a success, said Akram Atallah, President of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) talking to the Internet Policy Review at the Munich Conference on …
Two separate ICC panels have denied the objections to the new gTLD’s .Islam and .Halal finding that although there “opposition to Respondent’s application to some extent, but such opposition is not substantial”.Although they were two separate opinions both shares a lot of the same finding and drew the same conclusions: Here are the relevant parts …
The Fourth Ukrainian IGF took place on October, 3, 2013. During the course of the Forum Ukrainian and international experts discussed issues of Internet infrastructure development, network safety, international tendencies in informational community development. One of the Forum’s meetings was devoted to the issue of cyrillic top-level domains. In August, 2013,domain names registration in the …
The African IGF is a growing initiative, but its management and consequently planning and relationship with host countries will be a tight to walk if the Africa union related bodies fail to follow the laid out protocols. Africa holds its 2nd Internet Governance Forum, but will it achieve its desired goals Who should control the …
Zimbabwe’s government has enacted a controversial law that could enable it to spy on any citizen’s cellphone call records as well as text messages. The government gazetted ‘Statutory Instrument 142 of 2013 on Postal and Telecommunications (Subscriber Registration) Regulations, 2013’ on Friday as the country’s new communications minister Webster Shamu – a loyalist of President …