“Inspired to set up DotConnectAfrica, as its name aimes, to Connect Africa through a Single Pan-African domain name“ The CIO East Africa, an influential IT, Business and Leadership News Magazine talked to Sophia Bekele about her journey, taking stock of a decade of professional activities and achievements to date, in the ICT and DNS Industry, …
The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is certainly the most frequently used tool to combat cybersquatting — but, it is not always an option. Many countries have adopted their own domain name dispute policies — or none at all — in lieu of the UDRP. Since the launch of the WIPO ccTLD Program …
The company that runs the .xyz domain name, has added the 10th domain in its portfolio. XYZ has announced that it has acquired the .storage top level domain name. Self Storage Co., a subsidiary of self-storage giant Extra Space Storage, Inc., assigned rights to the TLD effective April 18. Self Storage Co. owns the domain …
The final IRP hearing for the Amazon EU S.à.r.l. v. ICANN (.AMAZON) was set for 1 – 2 May 2017. In 2013 the ICANN GAC recommended that the ICANN Board reject Amazon.com Inc.’s bid to secure control of a “.amazon” domain. ICANN’s government advisory committee said the full organization “should not proceed” with Amazon’s application …
Record labels have won against internet service providers to have piracy website KickassTorrent blocked. In Friday’s ruling, Justice Stephen Burley ordered ISPs including TPG, iiNet, Optus and Telstra to block KickassTorrent by blocking seven domain names including kat.al, kickass.cd and kickass.ukbypss.download. However, the record labels will have to pay $50 per domain name to have the piracy websites blocked. The ISPs have …
Researchers are warning about a phishing attack that abuses the way some browsers handle unicode characters to display attack domains that are identical to legitimate ones. The concept behind the attack is quite old, but it has resurfaced in the current versions of both Firefox and Chrome. The attack relies on the fact that the …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given dotAfrica the ahead to proceed with their launch plan after the domain was put in the root zone. According to ZACR NPC, the dotAfrica Sunrise Period will run for the next sixty days beginning today, 4 April 2017 – 2 June 2017. While the …
.Feedback registry owner Top Level Spectrum (TLS) is in breach of its registry agreement says ICANN. In 2016, Adobe and Facebook among several other brands demanded an investigation into TLS arguing that the registry had perpetrated “deceptive practices in the .feedback top level domain in violation of its public interest commitments”. .feedback’ TLD, aims to …
A letter from the gTLD Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) has requested [PDF] ICANN to slash its annual fees for a year and undertake a $3 million marketing effort to promote new domains (new gTLDs) RySG chair Paul Diaz said that “A number of gTLD operators are struggling” and reducing the fees would give the registries …
Verisign released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief, which covers th e last quarter of 2016, this week. The fourth quarter of 2016 closed with approximately 329.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 2.3 million domain name registrations, or 0.7 percent over the third quarter of 2016. …