NTIA questions Verisign’s recent spate of concerns about new TLD rollout. ICANN has published a letter that Verisign sent to the U.S. National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) regarding Verisign’s security and stability concerns for new top level domains as well as the NTIA’s response. The response shows that the NTIA doesn’t want Verisign playing …
Trademarks lie at the heart of our market society, so it’s not surprising that they’ve been important on the Internet since it first went commercial. While the principles of trademark law apply equally in the online and bricks-and-mortar worlds, there’s a twist to how trademark use is regulated within Internet domain names. Read More The …
A United Nations group that advises nations on cybersecurity plans to send out an alert about significant vulnerabilities in mobile phone technology that could potentially enable hackers to remotely attack at least half a billion phones. The bug, discovered by German firm, allows hackers to remotely gain control of and also clone certain mobile SIM cards. …
The introduction of thousands of new Internet extensions in the next year is going to make the Internet less secure if a new report is anything to go by. The “namespace quality index” produced by domain consultants Architelos is the first time a comprehensive review of abuse of the domain name system has been undertaken. …
[news release] The Internet Society today announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Shinkuro and Parsons to collaborate on multiple initiatives to promote the global deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). Few technologies are more critical to the operation of the Internet than the DNS, and DNSSEC provides a way to …
Below is a complete unabridged version of the comment/questions raised by Ms. Sophia Bekele, Executive Director and CEO of DotConnectAfrica Trust, at the ICANN-47 Public Forum Meeting in Durban, Republic of South Africa on 18th July 2013. A shorter version was read out at the ICANN Public Forum Meeting on Thursday, July 18, 2013 due …
Los Angeles, California… ICANN has unveiled a new digital platform intended to foster collective experimentation and innovation to increase the levels of community-wide engagement. The platform, called ICANNLabs, can be accessed at labs.icann.org. Anyone can sign up to receive updates and provide feedback. The platform will create a truly transparent process, essential to ICANN and …
During the ICANN Durban 46 Conference, the organizers of the African strategies that is a product of a June 2012 meeting involving Steve Crocker, Chairman of ICANN’s Board of Directors,ICANN’s CEO-Designate Fadi Chehadé and its Interim CEO Akram Atallah with select African community members at ICANN’s 44th Public Meeting, in Prague, Czech Republic. The goal …
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the first set of global Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and users will soon be able to access sites ending with these domain extensions. The corporation has approved four gTLDs and all of them are non-English words as listed below: .شبكة (“Web” in Arabic) .游戏 (“Game” …
This is a huge accomplishment,” said Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and CEO. “We can see the last mile before the first new TLD is activated in the Internet’s root.” Chehadé made the comments during a ceremonial signing at the opening session of ICANN’s 47th Public Meeting in Durban, South Africa. Three companies signed the Registry …