Last November, shocking reports revealed that a Private equity firm Ethos Capital was in the course to acquire the Public Interest Registry (PIR), which runs the .org domain used for non-profit organisations’ websites from the Internet Society ISOC. The acquisision move has been denounced by Internet freedom groups as well as ICANN’s decision to remove …
Request for blocking of search results granted to anonymous applicant is first to affect an entry in the online encyclopaedia. Google is set to restrict search terms to a link to a Wikipedia article, in the first request under Europe‘s controversial new “right to be forgotten” legislation to affect the 110m-page encyclopaedia. The identity of …
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales appeared on The Colbert Report yesterday and confirmed that the site would be launching “soon.” Wales told the show’s host that the site does not have a business model and will not have any advertising — as is the case for all sites run by the Wikimedia Foundation. read more
I read this Press Release over Wikipedia sabotage by DotConnectAfrica few days ago and felt that this must be one of the most dramatic gTLDs in the current history of gTLDs. My truth dig on this gTLD tells me the struggles of DotConnectAfrica with the AU Task Force, allegations of sabotage of endorsement, conflict of Interest, illegality in …