ICANN has on Monday 24 2014 signed a registry agreement with the ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa to operates the .africa top-level domain. The agreement comes even as DotConnectAfrica is going through ICANN’s own Independent IRP process. “Fortunately for ICANN, I think there’s a better chance of me getting elected Pope”, said DI’s …
ICANN has on Monday 24 2014 signed a registry agreement with the ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa to operates the .africa top-level domain. The agreement comes even as DotConnectAfrica is going through ICANN’s own Independent IRP process. The IRP which is a proceeding provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of the ICANN …
CentralNic Group PLC has exclusively signed a Registry Service Provision contract with Radix Registry (“Radix”), for its four uncontested new gTLD’s; .website, .press, .host or .space. ARI Registry had the contract for these four string before this announcement. ARI Registry is also the technical provider for ZACR registry, the other .africa applicant. DotConnectAfrica Trust and …
On March 14, 2014, the NTIA announced its Intent to Transition Key Internet Domain Name Functions, ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has written a clarification on the same below, Important Corrections to General Inaccuracies and Misconceptions Regarding U.S. Announcement and IANA Functions On Friday, March 14 the U.S. Government announced its intention to transition its stewardship responsibilities …
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday slammed the administration’s decision to withdraw its oversight of an Internet governance board, calling it a “colossal” error. The former Republican vice presidential candidate echoed concerns from other conservatives Wednesday in a Facebook post about the Obama administration’s move to cede oversight over the Internet Corporation for Assigned …
Yesterday we told you about Sedo.com having online bidding for the live auction of the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) which will be held in Macau starting at 11 a.m. Friday local Macau Time (03:00 UTC) March 21, 2014 (Thursday March 20th at 11pm EST). Personally I don’t own any IDN’s but this one may …
Comms Minister Malcolm Turnbull follows US lead on governance, with caveats Australia’s communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has endorsed USA’s decision to hand over core internet supervisory chores to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Calling the USA’s decision “A momentous day in the history of the Internet” in a blog post, Turnbull …
SAN FRANCISCO — Amid growing international concern over U.S. control of the Internet, the federal government plans to relinquish control of policy making for the Web to the “global Internet community.” The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday that it has asked the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers to bring together interested groups from …
Late last year, new gTLD applicants for .sucks opened up Priority Registrations for .sucks domain names for $250 per domain and Trademark Priority Registrations of $2,500 per domain. The registry plans on charging $25,000 PER domain for Sunrise Registrations. Sunrise is reserved for registered trademarks which are registered with the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH). The …
The Snowden revelations have spurred yet another discussion on how to internationalise or globalise the oversight over the management of core infrastructures of the internet, namely the so-called IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) functions. Why not let the private sector decide? This week, academics Prof. Milton Mueller and Brenden Kuerbis of Syracuse University, experts in …