The .Green registry released its launch time table for the new gTLD. The Founders Program is now open but only to December 1, 2014 “The Founders Program is Limited to Friends & Supporters of DotGreen, and attendees of San Francisco Green Festival If your interested in acquiring a .Green Founders name you need to submit …
There are a number of ways China cuts off access to websites it deems inappropriate for its populace. It can co-opt telecoms companies as part of its Great Firewall to simply blacklist sites one by one. But it can also shut off reams of websites in one fell swoop by blocking companies that run content …
Summary: The Defending Internet Freedom Act [PDF], put forward by Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA), would see the creation of a board made up of techies and reps from the domain name world, as well as a new consortium to run the critical IANA body. Bill would protect Internet from foreign government control WASHINGTON …
The .Africa story is still generating lots of reactions even when it is undergoing an Independent Review Process pitting DCA Vs. ICANN. As a follow up to a recent report on an interview by Gareth van Zyl with Sophia Bekele at Fin24Tech, we found out that the article “Internet domain name ‘dotAfrica’ faces hurdles” was not …
Two organizations whose voices hold considerable sway on Internet governance issues–which appeared up until just last weekend to be speaking in harmony–now find themselves at odds. The Internet Society has blasted efforts from some quarters to create a “UN Security Council” for the internet – which would rule over the online world. The society (ISoc) …
Apple, Google, and several other Internet and technology companies are in a race against the clock to get the Senate to approve a bill that will end the NSA’s bulk data collection programs. Known as the USA Freedom Act, S. 2685, the bill aims to stop the government’s collection and storage of the electronic communications …
12 November 2014 A U.S. federal court has agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are not property subject to attachment. Claimants filed writs of attachment to seize from ICANN, the ccTLDs for Iran (.IR), Syria (.SY) and North Korea (.KP), (as well as …
By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch US Ambassador Daniel Sepulveda on the eve of the final celebration of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference last week said he was “happy” about the results. Asked what he thought was the most important resolution of the three week conference, he told Intellectual Property Watch …
ICANN is introducing the addition of Five-Year Operating Plan to its planning process, and is seeking public comment on the ICANN Draft Five-Year Operating Plan Version 1 (FY2016-FY2020) [PDF, 1.04 MB]. The public comment period begins today, Monday, 11 November 2014 for a total of 55 days to complete on Monday, 5 January 2015. This …
DotAfrica TV Features CentralNic CEO Ben Crawford, as he talks on history of CentralNic, Domain Name, New gTLDs and changes to the Internet Domain Name and his Company’s Strategy for Emerging Markets which includes Africa. CentralNIC is the Registry Partner for DotConnectAfrica’s .Africa registry. DotAfrica TV brings Views, Opinions of Business, Internet & Technology to …