The position of GAC and its importance in the ICANN new gTLD progress is being placed in a very tight spot over the relevance and the practicability of the recommendations that it has offered on the new gTLD applications and more specifically the Safeguard Advice. GAC entered ICANN as one of the arms that would …
Microsoft has started the process to recover the XboxOne.com and XboxOne.net domains, according to a report by Fusible. The Redmond, Washington, software giant has filed a claim with the National Arbitration Forum, a body that functions similarly to a court, to settle the domain ownership dispute. The claim is being made against a London resident …
The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago, but online an “evil empire” is thriving. Security experts say the .su internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into a haven for hackers who’ve flocked to the domain space to send spam and steal money. Capitalist concerns rather than …
The inherent limitations of this approach spurred the author of the article, Patrick Meier, and his team to enhance Ushahidi with a set of Twitter classifiers — algorithms that could automatically identify Tweets that were relevant and informative to the crisis at hand. For example, classifiers automatically categorize eyewitness reports, infrastructure-damage assessments, casualties, humanitarian needs, …
Amongst the responses that caused an industry uproar that followed the Beijing GAC advice over many applications submitted by ICANN included DotConnectAfrica’s response which was posted by ICANN on 22 May 2013 DotConnectAfrica the company that applied for .africa (Application number -1-1165-42560) sting and received a GAC objection advice has responded to ICANN in a …
Google Trends Interest over time allows us to view search trends for specific geographic areas by month. Since Facebook use is synonymous with Internet use in the majority of African countries, we’ve attempted to use search interest for the network to make conjectures about the stage of African Internet growth in each African nation. We’ve …
DotConnectAfrica in a spirited effort to secure its application on .africa that has lately been a victim of GAC advice during the just concluded ICANN Beijing 46th meeting has called the GAC Advice anti-competitive saying: “we see the GAC Policy Advice as a wrong step, and against the explicit commitment to fair competition …
In their latest report, the experts at Kaspersky Lab analysed the development of IT threats in the first quarter of 2013. The first three months of the year turned out to be full of incident, especially when it came to cyberespionage and cyberweapons. At the very beginning of the year, Kaspersky Lab published a major report with …
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 …
In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. “Total projected withdrawals 646 vs. 545 budgeted; Total applications reflect withdrawals to date and projected withdrawals. “ There were 1931 applications submitted for 1,409 strings. Of the 646 applications it is now budgeting …