After months of domestic unrest, Ukraine now has Russian troops and a potential international crisis brewing in Crimea. On Friday, reports surfaced that Ukrtelecom, the country’s largest telecom provider, had suffered a major outage in Crimea — with UPI reporting the company alleged phone and Internet services were almost entirely down in the region after …
Several generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) recently completed their Sunrise Periods, taking a step closer to realizing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (“ICANN’s”) gTLD expansion project from the existing 22 gTLDs (e.g. .com, .net, .org, .biz, etc.) to potentially 1,300 new gTLDs (i.e. arbitrary top-level domains). Read more Brand owners now face an uphill battle in …
Next week, ICANN opens the Internet up to new domains like .ski, .sexy, and .berlin — and Fadi Chehade has to handle people unhappy with the change. Also: time for the US to let go of its Net oversight? Starting next week, the Internet is going to look very different — and ICANN Chief Executive …
If Ford built a private toll highway that only allowed Mustangs, Americans would be outraged. Infrastructure is the bloodstream of an economy; if powerful established players controlled roads, telephone lines, and Internet cables, they could favor the highest bidder at the expense of the savvy entrepreneur, choking off the meritocracy that makes market economies so …
In view of its growing cyber security concerns, India has decided to challenge the U.S. government’s control over the Internet and ensure that the trio of the U.S., Russia and China does not ignore India’s concerns while developing an international regime for Internet governance. India will also push for storing all Internet data within the …
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will try once again today to take the dominant role in running the internet. The still-obscure United Nations agency has formed a partnership with the… Read more
Ministers from six African countries have come to an agreement to accelerate broadband access across Sub-Saharan Africa. Government ministers from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia met during the weekend in Botswana to discuss general points for consideration to expand internet access across the countries. Nonofo E Molefhi, minister of transport and communication for …
Temporarily freezes move that could have led to global corporates monopolising the WWW by privatising domains like .beauty or .book The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN) has put on hold a controversial decision to allot closed generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) to applicants. Governments and activists had feared that allotting such …
Multinational high-tech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa’s relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised to be the next hotbed of technological innovation. Others are even more optimistic. A man scrolls through his mobile phone to carry out a money …
Ever thought of the perfect domain name for your business only to find it’s already been taken? If so, you’ll be happy to know soon there will be a more than 6,000 percent increase in the number of website domains available. Some will be brand-centric–think .apple for Apple or .citi for Citibank. Others will be …