The Council of the country code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) today approved the Kiribati Ministry of Communications, Transport, and Tourism Development; and Agence Tunisienne d’Internet , the ccTLD operators of .ki (Kiribati) and .tn (Tunisia), as new ccNSO members. The ccNSO, which is ICANN’s policy development body for ccTLD issues, now numbers 141 members, all of them country …
That’s how some are interpreting a statement released in October by 10 organizations central to the Internet’s operation. “With striking unanimity, the organizations that actually develop and administer Internet standards and resources initiated a break with three decades of U.S. dominance of Internet governance,” writes Milton Mueller, a professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. “A …
7 October 2013 Montevideo, Uruguay – The leaders of organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet technical infrastructure globally have met in Montevideo, Uruguay, to consider current issues affecting the future of the Internet. The Internet and World Wide Web have brought major benefits in social and economic development worldwide. Both have been built and …
. When Fade joined ICANN as CEO and was unveiled in the ICANN 44th meeting in Prague on 25th June 2012, on his maiden speech (Preview) Fade said . “The first, ICANN is an international organization and we must strive to make it international, and that’s not dressing, that is not an office in another …
The contrast between that two applicants goes more than Pioneer-ship of their Campaigns for their respective TLDs. They are also amongst very few women applicants at ICANN which also adds to the parallel. Despite, as the new gTLD process progresses, more and more applicants are facing diverse tangents and directions as regards their applications. New …
Pope Francis and the Vatican are at the helm of an internet name revolution as the industry opens the doors to tens of thousands of personalised websites The Pope is at the helm of an internet revolution as the Vatican becomes the first organisation to launch a new domain name under revamped rules. It has …
Resolved (2013.10.07.NG01), the NGPC directs the President, Generic Domains Division to implement the proposal to manage the occurrence of collisions between new gTLDs and existing private uses of the same strings as presented in the “New gTLD Collision Occurrence Management Plan” attached as Annex 1 [PDF, 840 KB], and in doing so to take into …
ICANN has announced that Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), has agreed to serve as Senior Security Advisor to the Generic Domains Division and its President, Akram Atallah. “The Domain Name System has met the needs of the Internet for secure and reliable service and growth in size and function,” said …
The African IGF is a growing initiative, but its management and consequently planning and relationship with host countries will be a tight to walk if the Africa union related bodies fail to follow the laid out protocols. Africa holds its 2nd Internet Governance Forum, but will it achieve its desired goals Who should control the …
Africa is a continent is need of a regional online identifier. Recently submissions have been made and the continent managed only 17 applications to own new generic TLD’s to ICANN. From the applications, one name ‘.africa’ has been made famous, thanks to the uncompetitive nature that the applicants have been exposed to due to the …