Someone must have declared the past 7 days ccTLD Week. Country code domains took the top two spots on our latest all extension Top 20 Domain Sales Chart and went on to pile up 9 chart entries overall. German domain GayForum.de set the pace with a $45,500 sale at Sedo. The domain was purchased to …
Absence may be attributed to the AU bypassing Ethiopian immigration protocol without declaring itself as the host of the event officially and providing behind the scene logistical accommodation for ICANN and participants. ICANN participated with the regional IG community in two important events in March 2013. These events were attended by regional stakeholders from government, the private sector and civil society. The …
When one looks at the African domain applied for it’s a geographic top level domain that has attracted a not so palatable confrontation between the applicants of the current ICANN gTLD round DotConnectAfrica and Uniforum otherwise known as ZA Central registry or AfricainOneSpace. The main issue that has come to fore apart from the fact …
Dr. Steve Crocker is the Co-Founder and CEO of Shinkuro, Inc., the current Chair and former Vice-Chair of the ICANN Board, an Internet pioneer, an early leader of ISOC and the IETF, and the creator of the RFC document series. He continues to speak about, and participate in, the development of the Internet through Industry …
UniForum SA is on the move to increase the price of .co.za domain names by 50%, but only on its legacy system. This follows a proposal in 2012 where the firm had proposed policy changes on the legacy system, including an increase on the annual domain registration fee from R50.00 to R75.00. read more
UniForum SA is increasing the price of .co.za domain names by 50%, but only on its legacy system. But the price on its new registration system is set at a significantly lower level in an effort to encourage registrants to move from one to the other. By Craig Wilson. read more
19 November 2012: ICANN has announced the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Sudan. With this announcement, a total of 31 countries/territories requests have successfully passed through the String Evaluation. Of these, 23 countries/territories (represented by 33 IDN ccTLDs) are delegated in the DNS root zone; with the remainder either …
Few weeks ago, on the AfriICANN public mailing list it was reported that Madam Anne-Rachel was officially taking up a position as the as Chief Operations Officer of AFRINIC. This is after a long stint at ICANN where she was the Manager of Regional Relations for Africa at ICANN. It’s not clear however why her …