Today marks a major milestone in the New gTLD Program: Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the first set of new gTLD applications have been released to applicants and the general public. This achievement is the result of many years of policy development and implementation work to bring diversity, competition, and innovation to the Domain Name …
ICANN has on 22nd march 2013 released the first batch of the Initial Evaluation results, on their website the following was posted. Today marks a major milestone in the New gTLD Program: Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the first set of new gTLD applications have been released to applicants and the general public. This achievement …
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, has described China as “the most egregious” example of a nation attempting to control the internet, as he hinted at expanding the company’s multimillion-pound transition fund towards British publishers to boost revenues from digital. In an interview with the Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger at the Big Tent Activate …
ICANN’s 2013 Nominating Committee (NomCom) will be attending the 46th ICANN Meeting in Beijing, China, (http://beijing46.icann.org/) and conduct a number of open meetings to provide detailed information to the community about the NomCom’s work and obtain input from the ICANN entities regarding desirable applicant qualities. The NomCom is actively seeking qualified candidates for the following …
“The geeks are winning!” So said internet pioneer Vint Cerf today as he and four fellow engineers who contributed to the creation of the internet and the web picked up the inaugural Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering – billed by its promoters as the new “Nobel prize for technology”. The winners were Bob Kahn, Louis …
Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum will this week convene for the first of a series of seminars exploring the twists and turns of the global Internet landscape. Organised by InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc), the Parliamentary Internet Forum seminar on Wednesday will focus on ‘who controls the Internet’ with former ICANN Chair …
In an unprecedented turn of events, ICANN 47th Meeting has been scheduled for Durban South Africa. The meeting at the International Convention Centre has been announced alongside the 46th Beijing meeting. This becomes the 8th, meeting in Africa, the first ever was held in Cairo, Egypt in March 2000 the most recent was held in …
After posting objections for new gTLD application of .Cam and .Bom, claiming that they are confusingly similar to .Com., Verisign (VRSN) the company that operates the .Com registry is reported to have filed more objections that now include .Network, .Company and .Vet. Read more
WORCESTER, England, March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — New Pope Francis I loses his domain names thanks to Cybersquatters – The Vatican have already lost one key piece of intellectual property by losing key domains surrounding newly elected Pope Francis I on his first day of Papal duties, and could “spark a bidding war” …
Two industry groups argue that the retailer’s plan to control several generic top-level domains, including .book, .author, and .read, would be anti-competitive. Amazon’s effort to control dozens of new generic top-level Internet domain names is drawing fire from a pair of publishing industry groups. The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers oppose the …