ccNSO admits .KI and .TN as new members

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 …

Is the U.S. losing control of the Internet?

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 …

Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation

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 …

.green pioneer quits the ICANN gtld process as .africa pioneer hangs in there

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 …

Vatican bags “.Catholic” in four languages

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 …

NGPC recommendations for Name Collision on new gTLDs

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 …