The World Wide Web turns 29 but under threat, Protect it

Posted on March 12, 2018October 1, 2020

Today, March 12, is the World Wide Web’s 29th birthday. Here’s a message from our founder and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on what we need to ensure that everyone has access to a web worth having. Today, the World Wide Web turns 29. This year marks a milestone in the web’s history: for the …

ICANN suspends closed generic top level domain bids

By James Barnley Posted in Domains gTLD's

Posted on July 2, 2013November 9, 2020

Valideus, Cyrillic, land rush, Verisign, IT professionals

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 …