Expansion is also apparent in the range of domains used: the phishing sites discovered in 2015 were spread across 280 TLDs, but last year 432 TLDs were involved. The trend was linked mainly to the availability of very cheap domain names under new TLDs (nTLDs). Compared with 2015, the number of phishing attacks from nTLDs …
Sophia Bekele Internet expert and previous ICANN policy adviser, has warned in her article that if, as has been argued by some other writers, governments want more power within the ICANN ecosystem, an unsupervised PTI-ICANN will also be pressured by various governments. Read the article below on The Hill: November 2016 elections will determine …
When last we left the nascent “.sucks” generic top-level domain, ICANN was calling for investigation and scrutiny into the pricing structure the domain’s designated registry was implementing. That registry, a company called Vox Populi, is currently offering sunrise pricing on “.sucks” domain names with the MSRP going as high as $2,499. Individual registrars are charged …
ICANN has today announced that Big Room’s .eco application passed community evaluation. This means that .eco will be run by the environmental community for the greater good. Thank you to the many individuals from around the world who volunteered their time and vision to make this historic result possible. This has truly been a community …
Kevin Lisota of GeekWire writes, Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension. Transferring domain names was also relatively easy. However, this year brings us the release of more than 600 new domain extensions …
Remember the TLD Application System (TAS) glitch? Well ICANN has just experienced another Glitch. According to ICANN, CZDS is temporarily offline while ICANN investigates a technical issue with the system software. An update on system status will be posted by 23:59 UTC on 2 May 2014. Thank you for your patience. Read further reporting as …
29 October 2013 Los Angeles, California… John Crain has been named ICANN’s new Chief Security, Stability and Resiliency Officer. In this newly created position Crain will assume the responsibilities of Jeff Moss, who announced he is stepping down from his position as Chief Security Officer at the end of the year. More broadly, Crain will …
American Bible Society has won the rights to operate .bible, a new top-level domain (called gTLDs) to enter into an arena dominated by .com and .org. The application process has taken ABS over a year to secure .bible from the International Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which it says will be used by …
The US Senate has added its voice to the new gTLD process procedures. In a 26th June 2013 letter to ICANN, Senator Jay Rockefeller, the head of the Senate Commerce Committee told ICANN to “tread carefully” in opening up new gTLD’s follow GAC advice and consider a limited roll out of first round gTLD’s: Most …
“If ICANN were to delegate the gTLD to DCA despite the AUC’s endorsement of UniForum, it is likely that the AUC would lose faith in ICANN and its structures.” “Such conspiracies that are being contrived and hatched by the opponents of DCA Trust with the active connivance of DomainIncite will fail.” The statement …