ICANN accountability has come into question more than any other issue in the transitional discussions that led to the NETMundial conference. Under President Clinton in 1998, the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) entered into a contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to manage core functions of the …
In an ongoing controversy that involves ICANN being in favor of South Africa’s ZA Central Registry NPC as the managers of the Dot .Africa gTLD, another applicant appears to have been barred from an International Telecommunication Union(ITU) event. Sophia Bekele, an Ethiopian entrepreneur, is a business and corporate executive, an International entrepreneur, corporate governance… …
A Sad Day for the African Internet Community Its emerging that even though the .Africa “Signing Ceremony held at ICANN 49 on 26 March 2014 was widely publicized and even rarely reported on ICANN’s website, there has been silence on the reception making it hard to understand the uptake of the domains. This is …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided on Monday to delay granting new .wine and .vin top level domains, a move welcomed by European lawmakers concerned that cybersquatting could undermine the entire wine industry. ICANN, which is responsible for generic top level domains, had planned to launch .wine and .vin in the …
Apr 02 2014 Thune, Rubio Demand Answers from Administration on Internet Transition Washington, D.C. U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and 33 of their Senate Republican colleagues today sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), seeking clarification regarding the recent …
Want a domain name that stands out? Good luck. For years, the Internet has been limited to just 22 generic top-level domains like the familiar .com, .net, and .org. Sure, there are other top-level domains, but most are for countries (like .jp for Japan or .ca for Canada). Those general-purpose domains have been very limited. …
Advertisers: That’s exactly what we said when you started this By Katy Bachman Try to follow this. Icann, the international organization that has begun to roll out hundreds of new generic top level domains over the objections of brands worried about domain abuse, is now warning brands that they are at risk of domain abuse. …
Exclusive Interview with “.CO” CEO Juan Diego Calle with Robert Schoon latinpost.com The internet is about to erupt with thousands of new domain name extensions, supplementing the familiar “.com” with new website address endings from “.company” to “.photography.” Juan Diego Calle, CEO of “.CO”, a preexisting domain focused on startups, tells LatinPost why he’s not …
100 New Generic Top Level Domains Delegated Into Internet 21 January 2014 Los Angeles, California… ICANN‘s Global Domains Division today announced that the number of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) delegated into the Internet’s Root Zone has topped 100. Delegation is one of the final steps before the Registries that control the domains may begin …
If 2013 was the year of “Big Data,” 2014 will be the year of the “Internet of Things.” The Internet of Things is the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with people, things, and the external environment. It includes everything from traffic sensors to refrigerators, thermostats, medical …