Global superpowers aren’t determined by how widely their .domain is used, but if they were, the world would look very different and so if domain names ruled the world, America wouldn’t be a superpower In order to show what that might look like, Nominet has created a new world map where the scale is based on each …
The domain name space is getting larger with the addition of hundreds of new generic top-level domains like .club, .xyz and .guru, and security firm Raytheon says they are a boon for hackers, cyber thieves and online scam artists. ICANN, which is tasked with the management of the domain name root and which is behind …
According to an article by Jonathan Owen on the independent, Britons wanting to register web addresses face a price hike as a result of a controversial decision by the UK’s internet registry to charge 50 per cent more than it does at present. The move by Nominet, the not-for-profit company which controls and manages British …
ICANN has finally announced that it has opened its own blogs for comments. This is after a long and unusual manner in which any blog by ICANN staffers could not be commented upon as a form of reply, addition, suggestions or criticism. One of the notable stakeholders who have in the past commented on the …
The applicant for .Africa new gTLD , DCA Trust, has opposed the latest effort by the ICANN board to revert the .Africa application for a Governmental Committee (GAC) at ICANN to “refining” its last advise GAC gave to the ICANN Board. This comes after the DCA Trust won an Independent Review Panel decision against ICANN …
The delegation of .Africa may be in for further delay after new letters purportedly written to the Geo panel exposed a possible coercion by the African Union to another regional body UNECA that is relevant to the endorsement of the .Africa new gTLD as required by the applicant guidebook. The AUC who is in competition …
Major Companies Line Up For Branded Domain Names, $GOOGL, $WMT, $VRSN, $BCS, $TGT, $HD. Anyone with $9.99 can buy a Web address that ends in “.com.” Online scammers can pay for an address that looks like that of a bank, a clothier, or an auto dealer and create a site that looks enough like the …
The .Africa gTLD domain IRP saga between DCA Trust the applicant and ICANN has been discussed on several platforms as the precedential case, on 29 July 2015, the BBC Program called the ‘BBC Click’ discussed the findings of the Independent Review Panel (IRP). According to the discussion: “It is alleged that staff at domain-name overseer …
ICANN has been called out for a narrow choice of nominated award candidates in its latest ‘Multistakeholder Ethos Award’. The award which was started in 2014 was first given to Avri Doria and in 2015 during the ICANN 53 meeting meeting Buenos Aires, Argentina two awards went to Cheryl Langdon Orr and Nii Quaynor. The …
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement upon House passage of the Fiscal Year 2016 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Act (H.R. 2578), which includes a prohibition on funds to transition oversight over the Internet’s domain name system away from the Department of Commerce. “The Obama Administration’s proposal to transition stewardship in …