Carwyn Jones announces Welsh Government to switch to ‘.cymru’ and ‘.wales’ and drop .gov.uk

First Minister Carwyn Jones this morning announced that the Welsh Government will drop the “.gov.uk” internet domain name and adopt “.wales” and “.cymru”. Speaking at a major conference of Icann, the body which coordinates the internet’s global domain name system, Mr Jones said he was “thrilled that Wales will finally have a natural home on …

BBC:France sparks .wine address row ahead of ICANN London for lack of adequate redress mechanisms

France has expressed anger at the organisation responsible for assigning internet domains over the planned launch of .wine and .vin addresses. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been rolling out new custom web names. But France said addresses like .wine would put trade agreements regarding the sale of region-specific products like …