The 2012 ICANN Nominating Committee better known as (NomCom) has completed its selections for seven leadership positions within ICANN. The NomCom Chair, Vanda Scartezini, said in part ,”It was a very interesting experience, especially the opportunity to work with very qualified people and a staff that is always focused on making things work.” Read More
Even though your published story written by Mr. Gareth Van Zyl is quite balanced, we wish to use this opportunity to provide some relevant comments that would help to further elucidate this issue for the interest of your readers and the global Internet and African public. Read More
But that’s not what’s prompting a huge expansion of Internet domains right now. As you may have heard, the relatively manageable list of “generic top-level domains” (gTLDs) that we’ve all mastered over the last couple of decades, such as .com, .net, and .org, is set to expand dramatically starting next year. Read More
The biggest enemy for domain investors is not the value of domains. It is not seeing and not understanding what is happening around us. The oxygen is in jeopardy of being sucked out if you are now keenly aware of what is taking place. Read More
ICANN is preparing to give an update on the changes to applications, We are finalizing the process to post application change requests. A set of seven criteria have been created to evaluate each request and, if approved, the change will be reflected on the posting page of the microsite. Read More
A number of Facebook users have reported to us receiving mysterious messages, seemingly from Facebook’s security team, telling them that their accounts have been suspended. The spam messages, however, are not legitimate. Read More
Businesses are also beginning to tap into the desire of millions of its consumers to access entertainment online. One of the best examples is in Nigeria, where the stunning success of Real Nolly Movies provides a benchmark for budding technology entrepreneurs across the continent. Read more
Efforts by the Internet Society to interconnect Africa received a major boost this week from the African Union and the European Internet Exchange Association, to establish new exchanges and support existing ones, respectively, it was said at the African Peering and Interconnection Forum. Read More
When recently the chamber of deputies approved a law that would allow security forces to use phone tapping to fight crime and for other security purposes, some people expressed worries about whether this might not lead to invasion of privacy. read More
“Over the past few days, the majority of Syria’s internet traffic has been routed through the Hong Kong-based telecom provider,” said Doug Madory , a research engineer at internet intelligence authority Renesys. Read More