Earlier this year while World Wide Web celebrated its 25th birthday, 25 years of unparalleled expansion, economic growth and social good. Sir Tim Berners Lee said “this is for everyone”. It’s up to us to make sure it stays that way. The freedom of the internet growth in a free thriving manner is a responsibility …
ICANN has announced that It has been brought to ICANN‘s attention that some online entities have attempted to sell fraudulent “certificates”, which they claim are required to protect generic top-level domain names. The perpetuators of this scam threaten registrants on the protection service with the objective of securing a fee from the registrant. The “certificates” …
During the just ended ICANN 50 meeting in London, several domain issues came to the fore. Hot in the heels of a disappointed .Wine opposers about how ICANN managed the decisions of the domain with the EU and specifically France showing the deep disappointment with ICANN. The .africa delay was also part of the GAC …
If ICANN indeed is not giving lip service to its accountability process, then it should respect the outcome of its own Independent Review Process (IRP) During the ICANN 50 Press Conference in London the ICANN president was fielding questions from Journalists and .africa came in discussion as the string that has been mentioned quite severally …
France is being broadly backed by the European Commission in its call for safeguards on who gets access to .wine and .vin internet domain names, setting up a potential legal showdown with the US government. Enraged French officials said today (26 June) that the body responsible for assigning web domain names, ICANN, is unfit to …
France has expressed anger at the organisation responsible for assigning internet domains over the planned launch of .wine and .vin addresses. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been rolling out new custom web names. But France said addresses like .wine would put trade agreements regarding the sale of region-specific products like …
ICANN is in the middle of a email exchange for the apparent delay of .africa, with the AUC. This comes just 3 days to the 22 – 26 June 2014 ICANN 50 in London, England. On 02 Jun 2014, Dr. Elham M. A. Ibrahim the African union Commissioner, Infrastructure and Energy wrote a letter to …
New Infographic: Perspectives from Small Businesses on New Generic Top-level Domains (gTLDs) WASHINGTON, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Over the next couple of years, domain standards like .com, .net and .org will be joined by potentially thousands of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), such as .photography and .restaurant. To gain perspective from those already …
CentralNic plc,(AIM:CNIC) acquired Internet.BS, a top 30 domain name registrar for a maximum consideration of USD 7.5 million. CentralNic says it will pay $5.2 million when the deal closes, with $2.7 million due in cash and $2.5 million to be paid in the form of 2.1 million new CentralNic shares. An additional $1.8 million payment …
“It would be ill-advised for ICANN to attempt to define bad faith behaviour related to the use of geographical indications… when the world’s experts have been unable to do so for years,” the US letter said. Online addresses ending in .wine and .vin are set to be uncorked soon, despite objections from European governments and …