ICANN has announced that it is free to delegate the .Africa domain to ZACR pending the court case resolution. This action mirrors its signing of a contract in the middle of an Independent Accountability Hearing (IRP) that ICANN initiated. This step was taken by ICANN after a recent California court decision to deny DotConnectAfrica’s Motion …
The .Africa gTLD can be re-delegated to DCA in the event DCA prevails in this litigation, says California Judge ICANN announced last Friday that it is free to proceed with the delegation of .AFRICA domain following a recent Court decision that denied DotConnectAfrica’s (DCA’s) Motion for Preliminary Injunction to stop the delegation of the .AFRICA …
Silicon Valley companies are stepping a fight with the Trump administration. On Sunday night, technology giants Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Uber and many others filed a legal brief opposing the administration’s contentious entry ban. The move represents a rare coordinated action across a broad swath of the industry — about a hundred companies …
ICANN Spent a whooping $32 million on the IANA transition process for the period March 2014 to December 2016 , this is according to a presentation released last week. $15 Million went to “External Legal Advice”, $8.3 million went to third-party services, that included lobbying, puclic relattions and translation. In the period from July 2014 up …
ICANN’s meetings may be affected by the recent controversial U.S. travel ban ordered by President Donald Trump, multiple representatives of the organization have indicated that the U.S. travel ban will cause disruption to its upcoming schedule of meetings. Kaveh Ranjbar is one of ICANN’s board members, and on Monday he missed his flight to Los …
Reports state that for over a week now, the northwest and southwest regions of Cameroon have not had any access to the internet which appear to have been cut in the major towns of the country’s two English-speaking regions. But details surrounding the internet shutdown continue to emerge slowly, showing a government intent on controlling …
The continuing case of African nonprofit DotConnectAfrica’s vs ICANN for the .Africa domain is set for another hearing January 31, 2017 after DCA filed an ex parte application for a temporary restraining order (“TRO “) PDF motion. On Thursday December 22, 2016, the Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Howard L. Halm issued a written tentative …
A new analysis by Beaming reports that the volume of attacks hitting individual company firewalls passed the 1,000 per day mark, on average, for the first time in November 2016. This indicated a 310 per cent increase in the volume of attacks seeking out Internet of Things devices between the first and final quarters of …
A new report published State of DNSSEC Deployment 2016 there has been steady and strong growth in both the statistics around DNSSEC signing and validation — and also in the number of tools and libraries available to support DNSSEC. That growth, however, is not evenly distributed. While many separate sites provide DNSSEC statistics, this report that …
Users can now register the long-awaited dot bangla (.বাংলা) IDN after it was officially launched by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, allowing web users to create websites with Bangla web addresses. The prime minister launched the dot bangla domains at the Ganabhaban , three months after the final clearance by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names …