Last week the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that the proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder community meets the criteria NTIA outlined in March 2014 when it stated its intent to transition the U.S. Government’s stewardship role for the Internet domain name system (DNS) technical functions, known as the …
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced yesterday that the IANA transition proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder community meets the criteria NTIA outlined in March 2014 when it stated its intent to transition the U.S. Government’s stewardship role for the Internet domain name system (DNS) technical functions, known as …
Sen. Ted Cruz, Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) have jointly introduced the Protecting Internet Freedom Act the legislation proposes that the Commerce Department would have to stay in control of the domain name system until Congress “expressly grants” it the authority to conduct the transition. The Act would also ensure that the United States maintains sole …
The Hill has reported a widely expected action by Sen. Ted Cruz who has been on the fore front of efforts to ensure that the IANA transition is delayed atleast until ICANN has proven that it is well capable of managing its own internal affairs. The new bill by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is that …
The mobile web is arguably in decline: users are spending more time on mobile devices, and more time in apps instead of web browsers. Apple has joined the app side of this battle (e.g. allowing ad blockers in Safari, encouraging app install smart banners above websites). Facebook has also taken the app side (e.g. encouraging …
Financial results from CentralNic Group Plc (LON:CNIC) show the web domains group continues to add scale to is business, something that will be further boosted by the recent acquisition of Instra Group in January. CentralNic which is the back-end provider for many new gTLD extensions including .africa, applied for by DotConnectAfrica, .xyz which has the …
The expansion of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by ICANN in recent years can put enterprise computers at risk due to name conflicts between internal domain names used inside corporate networks and those that can now be registered on the public Internet. To explore the scope of the problem, researchers from Verisign and the University of …
A dissenting panelist on the .Sports IRP decision of 5th May 2016 notes ICANN’s actions on the .Africa IRP which is the only applicant to beat ICANN and proceeded to sue in a California court. The .sports /.sport new gTLD: Two applicants SportAccord and Famous Four Media applied for .sport top level domain in 2012, …
Google is facing a potential record anti-trust or web search monopoly abuse fine of approximately 3 BILLION Euros (US$3.4 Billion) from the European Commission in the coming days, according to on.ine reports. After 7-years of the investigation, the European Commission filed anti-trust charges against Google last year for violating antitrust laws. The penalty sum would …
Flash’s ultimate demise has been slow and painful, and now Google is planning to deal it another blow through another update that should be active by the last quarter of 2016. Last year, Google made a slight change that would enable Flash blocking on a very limited scale through “intelligently” pausing unnecessary content as a …