Valideus which is private company “currently managing 5% of all new gTLD applications”, including Amazon’s sent a letter to ICANN asking for a lot of details on ICANN’s “Last Resort Auctions” which are scheduled to begin in mid-October. Included in the requests are many valid concerns about the amount of the deposits that will be …
Amazon just like DotConnectAfrica is Not Backing Down – Strong Response to GAC and ICANN on New gTLD Rejection – Amazon is not backing down from ICANN or the GAC, as earlier this week ICANN published the responses to the Durban GAC Communique, including Amazon’s which stood as perhaps the most forceful and comprehensive. DotConnectAfrica …
Over 10 years ago, Nii Narku Quaynor has been featured in the internet platform in Africa as an engineer who has played an important role in the introduction and development of the Internet In his country Ghana. He established the computer Science Department at the University of Cape-Coast in Ghana, some of these activities earned …
Includes the African Batch! On 22 August 2013, the ICANN Board approved the FY14 Operating Plan and Budget. The document describes the planned core operations and project activities, aligned with the required funding, for the 2014 fiscal year. These funded project activities are based on ICANN’s strategic priorities as documented in the adopted three year …
Yesterday, a decision on a string confusion objection was reached by a dispute resolution provider that resulted in a scenario that ICANN and the Applicant Guidebook had not addressed — conflicting opinions have been rendered by expert panelists ruling on the exact same pair of strings. One of our applications now hangs in the balance. …
At its meeting on 13 August 2013, the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) adopted a resolution affirming that “dotless domain names” are prohibited. Dotless domain names are those that consist of a single label (e.g., http://example, or mail@example). Dotless names would require the inclusion of, for example, an A, AAAA, or MX, record …
It’s not easy to get a short, crisp Web address. In the twenty-eight years since the now-extinct computer maker Symbolics registered the first .com address, symbolics.com, the most economical and memorable Internet addresses have mostly been claimed. Even longer addresses, or domains, like a person’s full name, might not be available—or, more likely, there will …
As ICANN previously announced, we commissioned a study to consider the likelihood and impact of name space collisions between applied-for new gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs. In light of that study, ICANN proposed to the community several possible mitigation measures, including: Proceeding with contracting and delegation of those strings categorized as “low risk” (80%) but …
The biggest expansion of Internet addresses is being delayed as VeriSign Inc. (VRSN), which gets most of its revenue from managing .com websites, argues with competitors over whether corporate networks could be disrupted. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit that manages the Web, has proposed holding on to new names to …
The UDRP complaint against MountainRovers.com has the dubious distinction of being the 150th case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking identified so far. Five thoughts on this milestone- 1. The problem of RDNH is getting worse. The UDRP is used more frequently than ever to attempt to steal domain names from their rightful owners. The early …