ICANN Name Branding: dot DO or dot DIE
ICANN is now evaluating 2000 proposed gTLD dot names. Based on the guidelines established and the choice of submissions the most names seem be straightforward cases. Read more
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Critical shift in focus to IPv6 adoption
Local awareness and adoption of IPv6 – the ‘next generation’ Internet addressing schema – appears to be maturing, with a recent survey by the IPv6 Task Force indicating an increase in the number of New Zealand organisations planning to implement the protocol. Read More
6 gTLD Applications Withdrawn, New Processing Roadmap And Digital Archery Replacements
According to ICANN’s second and latest New gTLD Update for Applicants, six applications have been withdrawn although officially it is not known which ones. And a tentative roadmap has been published that, if it holds, would see the new gTLD online in August 2013. Read More
Anne-Rachel Inne’s term expires at ICANN.
Few weeks ago, on the AfriICANN public mailing list it was reported that Madam Anne-Rachel was officially taking up a position as the as Chief Operations Officer of AFRINIC. Read More
Olga Madruga-Forti among 2012 NomCom Nominees
Ms. Olga Madruga-Forti a senior executive in the telecommunications and satellite industries from Buenos Aires, Argentina has been appointed to the ICANN Board of Directors others include Gonzalo Navarro ,George Sadowsky among others. Read More
Rise in internet domain disputes
Disputes over internet domain names have hit a record high over the last 12 months, experts have said. Legal information provider Sweet & Maxwell said that such disputes adjudicated by the World Intellectual Property Organisation hit 2,944 in the 12 months to July 2012, a 6% increase from 2,775 in July 2011. Read More
Increasing Internet Penetration and Expected Launch of New TLDs
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on the Domain Names markets. Number of Domain Names registration worldwide is projected to exceed 305 million by 2018. Apart from launch of new Top Level Domains and approval for new Internationalized Domain Names by ICANN Read More
The Internet battle for .bible domain name
How will faith be presented on the Internet? Recent moves by the ruling body that oversees the Internet have allowed for the most dramatic expansion in the Internet since it was created: an almost limitless number of top-level domains are now possible, to join the classics such as .com, .edu and .net Read more:
How the Internet Shapes American Politics
The Internet has gone through its own “what good is it?” arguments since its conception in the 1990s but time has since proved most of those critiques to be short-sighted. Today, online usage has gone from a little over 360 million to a staggering 2.2 billion people worldwide. Read More
Get ready to pay more for .co.za
UniForum SA is set to increase its tariffs and will also shorten the period in which customers can pay for their .co.za domain, according to proposed policy changes. The following changes are proposed to be implemented from 1 March 2013 with the annual fee increasing from R50.00 to R75.00 Read More