Washington Post: The latest battle over who should run the Internet will be waged in the South Korean port city of Busan over the next three weeks. For U.S. officials headed to the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference, the goal is simple: prevent a vote. In short, the State Department’s approach is this: Convince the representatives of …
By Jeff John Roberts: The latest New York City “land rush” is already turning into a party for cyber-squatters, who have snapped up some familiar names. The episode shows, again, how the system is geared in favor of the domain name industry, rather than brands or the public. Well, that was fast. New York City’s …
As of August 1, 2014 there are 282,525,140 domain name registered in the world according to the CENTR Report CENTR is the European ccTLD not for profit association dedicated to supporting the interest of country code TLD managers. The objectives of CENTR are to promote and participate in the development of high standards and best …
AMAZON SUCCESSFULLY BID $4.6m to control the .buy top level domain (TLD) name, according information just released by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). ICANN held an auction for three TLD names on 17 September, saying that there has been a lot of interest in them and that an auction was the …
Phil Corwin who writes extensively on Internet governance commented on the recent unanimous GNSO statement at the ICANN 50 in London. His comments are below GNSO Constituencies Issue Unanimous Joint Statement on ICANN Accountability In an unprecedented development, all stakeholder groups and constituencies comprising ICANN”s Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) unanimously endorsed a joint statement …
Next week, ICANN opens the Internet up to new domains like .ski, .sexy, and .berlin — and Fadi Chehade has to handle people unhappy with the change. Also: time for the US to let go of its Net oversight? Starting next week, the Internet is going to look very different — and ICANN Chief Executive …
2013 was one of the most exciting and forward-looking year for our Industry, and here we are, right at the beginning of 2014. Shall we look into the crystal ball and see what the horizon up ahead likely holds for us? We hope and foresee that a lot of everyone’s hard work will eventually begin …
As expected, Verizon has released its 2013 Transparency Report, and the company’s data shows the US is extremely interested in its network. Last year, Verizon received more than 320,000 requests for customer information from US law enforcement agencies. Verizon was hit with more than 164,000 subpoenas and nearly 71,000 legal orders. Among those orders were …
Elisa Cooper the Chair of the ICANN Business Constituency in a letter dated December 30, 2013 has told ICANN not to allow singular and plural’s strings of the same word. New gTLD Program Committee: We urge you to take immediate action to avoid the significant problems of allowing both singular and plural forms of the …
Fadi Chehade, as the President and CEO of ICANN, is frankly one of the more important people in the Internet world. His organization is responsible for two key aspects of the Internet. The first is managing the naming system of the Internet and how that system is used globally and how people reach it (ICANN …