Reuters reports from Lima that the presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia have criticized the recent decision by the organization that manages internet protocol to grant global retailer Amazon Inc the rights to the .amazon domain. Amazon Inc has been seeking the exclusive rights to the .amazon domain name since 2012. But Amazon basin …
ICANN has moved a step closer to delegating the .amazon top-level domain to Amazon, the online ecommerce company, after 7 years of negotiations with South American governments, who have been lobbying against the approval, saying “seven years is sufficient time for the parties to reach a reasonable resolution, and in the interest of continued fairness …
It seems not a single life on the internet is safe, someone just tried to trick users by sending the emails froma supposed ICANN legit email address and now The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued an alert that someone is running a phishing scam impersonating ICANN. The perpetrator apparently targeting …
CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), the internet platform business that derives subscription revenue from the worldwide sale of domain names and associated web services, announces that it has been selected by the internet regulator, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) for the bulk transfer of 679,840 domain names from a former registrar that is no …
March 22, 2019 saw the completion of the final important step in the Key Signing Key (KSK) rollover – a process which began about a year and half ago. What may be less well known is that post rollover, and until just a couple days ago, Verisign was receiving a dramatically increasing number of root …
ICANN has proposed new contracts for the .Org and .Info registries that would eliminate price caps on the domain names. Under the terms of the new agreements, .Org operator Public Interest Registry and .Info operator Afilias could increase prices on registrations to an unlimited amount, provided that they give advance notice. A price hike means …
The applicant of honeywell brand domain, American conglomerate Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has decided it doesn’t want to run its own top level domain name anymore nor transition it to a third party registry. The company informed (pdf) ICANN last month that it wishes to terminate its agreement to run .honeywell as a top level domain …
The wait for .Web is just about to be longer after Afilias file a notice and request for an independent review process. Most recently, Donuts that was recently acquired by Former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade backed ABRY Partners lost at the Court of Appeal. Donuts had claimed that ICANN” “intentionally failed to abide by its …
.Doha is the first gTLD to ask for a termination notice along side two dot-brand domains .active and .Zippo. They join a growing list of new gTLDS that didn’t make it to be profitable. .Doha is the geographic TLD for Doha, the Qatar capital and would be used as a domain name for government entities …
During the ICANN 63 in Barcelona, David Redl, the chief U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), gave his input into the Donut’s hiring of ICANN’s GDD Chief Akram Attalah. The US Rep suggested there should be a cooling off period for ICANN employees to maintain ethics. NTIA has sent a follow-up letter which appears …