India’s Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to unveil dot Bharat domain name

Minister of Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will be unveiling the dot Bharat domain name on August 21 in New Delhi to facilitate multi-lingual Internet access, NIXI chief executive Dr Govind told ET. The autonomous body National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will be …

Carwyn Jones announces Welsh Government to switch to ‘.cymru’ and ‘.wales’ and drop .gov.uk

First Minister Carwyn Jones this morning announced that the Welsh Government will drop the “.gov.uk” internet domain name and adopt “.wales” and “.cymru”. Speaking at a major conference of Icann, the body which coordinates the internet’s global domain name system, Mr Jones said he was “thrilled that Wales will finally have a natural home on …

De-accredited Pacnames to allow for Bulk Transfer of Domain Names to Net-Chinese

4 December 2013 ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from Pacnames Ltd to Net-Chinese Co., Ltd. due to compliance actions taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of Pacnames Ltd. The affected gTLD registries have processed the bulk transfers. Former registrant-customers of Pacnames Ltd should receive notices from Net-Chinese Co., …

New top-level internet domain name for Kiwis is approved

The generic top-level internet domain designation .kiwi has been formally approved by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). This provides an alternative to .(co, org, etc).nz for New Zealand companies and individuals to register a distinctive identity. Registration of .kiwi names is expected to become available as early as mid-August for registered …

More companies adopt .rw domain

Within a period of four months since Rwanda’s Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), “.rw” was formally re-delegated from Belgium, more companies/individuals have started registering their websites under the ‘.rw’ domain. Previously Rwandans had opted for .com, .org, .uk, because “.rw” was managed from Belgium and Rwandans were not aware of the procedures involved to …