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Ari Herzog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Last month, ICANN voted to relax domain name rules , allowing any institution willing to pay premium rates (speculated at $50,000 to $100,000 and up) for their own top-level domain name. This means Smith Group would no longer be restricted to competing with 153 million domain names worldwide and branding itself to smithgroup.com, smithgroup.net, etc., but a unique and proprietary .smithgroup. It makes...
ICANN Blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The July edition of the ICANN magazine is out, emailed to subscribers and available for review online. Each issue covers the latest news and events, plus outlines how you can interact with the organization. This month, alongside the usual policy rundown, compliance summary, Board meeting precis, public comment digest, and blog complendium, is a briefing note [...]
a minor technicality (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In a recent post I mentioned on how the infamous .info domain was gaining a little respectability and rising above the image of the “spammer’s domain”. This week, I am thinking all hope is lost. The .info domain is administered by Afilias. They recently submitted a proposal to ICANN (the global domain registry) to enable them [...]
Hot Hardware (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Nothing is so hilarious as when a security vendor gets its site hacked. All right, we will admit that when ICANN was hacked that was also funny. In this case, Kaspersky, who many say (arguably) has the best security software around, had their Malaysian website hacked (yes, we probably could cut them some slack for the fact it was only their Malaysian site - nah).“The official Malaysian Kaspersky Antivirus’s...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
RESTON, VA (MARKET WIRE) A request by .ORG, The Public Interest Registry to bolster Internet security via the implementation of Domain Name Security Extensions (DNSSEC) was unanimously approved by the board of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at the recent Paris meeting. As the first generic Top Level Domain authorized to implement DNSSEC, .ORG also is preparing an education...
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Afilias had submitted a proposal to ICANN for the .INFO gTLD that would allow them to shut down domain names at will if they consider them abusive. The proposal was approved . The problem they have is not going to be solved by this strategy. The value of high end .info domains was just diminished because now the registry can take them away from you for anything that they consider abusive,
LAW WIRE™ - COMMUNICATING THE LAW™ (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
"Dot-com," the ubiquitous term that has come to serve as a description for all things Internet-related, could be in the sunset of its heyday following a key decision on domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann -- the body that regulates the Internet, voted unanimously on Thursday to ease up restrictions on domain names such as .com or .net. The decision, made...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
By Sharp, Tara On June 26 in Paris, Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, approved expanding Web address extensions, or "top-level domains," to include generic words and names in international scripts.
Telco, Internet and IT (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has relaxed the rules on internet domain names, which may eventually allow the creation of millions of unique web addresses based on common words, brands, company names, cities or even proper names, Gulf News has reported. Under the new rules, domain names can be based on any string of letters, that even Dubai could be a viable domain name....
[SecurityRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Last month Afilias , the domain registry for .INFO , proposed a new "Abusive Domain Use Policy" that would appear to give them arbitrary power to decide what is and is not acceptable. Consider the...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
ICANN opened up the new top-level domain .me today, which caught Twitter cofounder Evan Williams unawares: Wonder who bought twitter.me. We were not on the ball. If the guy who bought Twitter.me... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
ICANN Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
As with previous meetings, we have prepared a “briefing note” for Paris to act as a broad summary of what happened over the five days. It has been published on the Paris meeting site and we republish it below. What was it? ICANN’s 32nd international public meeting was one of three held annually to conduct policy [...]
PodTech Network (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Breaking right now is that Google is buying the Russian Ad Agency. What this means is growth internationally. While some nickle dime the Google financials, Google is rolling. Buying Begun begins their international growth plan. Expect higher revenue growth from Google with this move. As ICANN is in shambles Google [...]
Microweb News (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The American government has closed entrusted becomes an agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an independent organ that with the registration of new websites in the topdomainen. com,. org and. just. That work [...]
D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Those interested in getting a .ME domain name can do so after ICANN opens up .ME domain registration. The registration for .ME domains began in May, where trademark owners were permitted to register their own names early. The landrush period began in June, in which any interested party can submit a domain application without restrictions. According to the [...]
