Major Internet Service Providers, home networking equipment manufacturers and web companies around the world are permanently enabling Internet Protocol Version 6 for their products and services today, following last year’s successful test run on World IPv6 day. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is seen as being critical to the internet’s …
Safaricom is looking to the future to hold its lead in the region in broadband services. As the internet nears the end of its Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) address pool, Internet Service Providers, mobile operators and user organisations alike, are looking to make the transition to the new generation called IPv6. These protocols provide …
Africa is the second-largest continent, after Asia, in both size and population; it is located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean at about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth’s total surface area and 20.4% of …
Magnus Nystedt discusses internet usage trends and opportunities across Africa. ALEC HOGG: It’s Thursday June 28 2012 and in this Boardroom Talk special podcast, Magnus Nystedt, who is with Royal Pingdom in Sweden, joins us now. Magnus, you’ve done some interesting analysis of websites hosted in Africa and I suppose the headline number is that it’s …
A funny thing happened in Nairobi last week… I showed up for an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) panel discussion on the use of the Internet during times of political and social unrest, and a truly multi-stakeholder dialogue broke out. It turned out to be my favorite session during an incredible IGF week that, thanks to …
“For us it’s all about enhancing the user experience of Google,” says Ade Oshineye, head of development for Google+ in the Middle East and Africa. Google says since the launch of Google+ in June last year, more than 100-million people have joined in a world all about numbers. These figures cannot be verified, as Google …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today revealed who has applied for which generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names in what is expected to become the largest expansion in the history of the Internet’s Domain Name System. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today revealed who has applied for which …
ICANN has released the latest generic Top-Level Domain name applications, which include .africa, .capetown, .mtn, .multichoice, .dstv, .durban, .capetown and .joburg DStv channels have dominated the list of applicants for the new top level domains from Africa, this was clearly seen in the list of proposed generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) revealed by the Internet …
The ICANN latest reveal of the applications pending batching has shown a number of very crucial details of what the new domains system is like. The new system before batching presents new applications with the North Americas having the highest applications amounting to 911, Europe follows with 675, Asia pacific which already has one continental …
A group of volunteers has just released a detailed report for ICANN on one of the most troubled, debated, and close-to-useless systems of Internet accountability: Whois. Whois, a simple protocol built into the first Internet architectures in the early 80s, allows free and public query of information on domain name ownership. When you type in …