January 29th, 2010 by 
David Goldstein
Clandestine efforts by some countries to create alternative versions of the Internet for political ends could put the Web at risk, Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO, told AFP this week. … more
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January 29th, 2010 by David Goldstein
The GNSO Council is seeking comments on amendments to the GNSO Operating Procedures related to the 2010 selection process for ICANN Board Seat 13. Under the ICANN Bylaws, the Contracted Party House selects the individual to fill Board Seat 13, currently held by Bruce Tonkin. Mr. Tonkin’s term ends on 30 April 2010. The GNSO Council has adopted the selection process proposed by the Contracted Party House for the upcoming 2010 election. The public comment period ends on 18 February 2010. … more
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January 28th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Website.de was the top selling domain name for Sedo in the week to 25 January selling for €101,150 ($142,214), far higher than the second biggest seller, which was bookkeepers.com ($34,000). Third biggest seller for the week was juegos-gratis.com (€13,500 / $19,000). … more
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January 28th, 2010 by David Goldstein
[news release] From May 2010, all the root servers on which the working of the domain name system depends, will be giving DNS responses signed by using the DNSSEC protocol.
This evolution aims for increasing the confidence in DNS responses (by authenticating their origin); administrators of networks connected to Internet should be aware that this evolution could cause some service disruptions. … more
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January 28th, 2010 by David Goldstein
The collaboration between ICANN, the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and VeriSign, Inc. to deploy DNSSEC in the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) passed an important milestone today. DNSSEC information is now being served by L-Root, one of the Internet’s 13 root servers, operated by ICANN. … more
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January 27th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Nominet, the registry for .UK domain names, has announced they will be giving registrars the ability to cancel domain names upon allegations of criminality activity involving .UK domain names. … more
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January 27th, 2010 by David Goldstein
CENTR, the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, has produced a video to help explain the functioning of the Domain Name System (DNS). … more
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January 26th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Haiti Relief Effort to Benefit from Low and No Reserve Auction
Moniker.com has released its list of premium domain names for its live and extended online auction at the DOMAINfest Global 2010 conference. The live auction is scheduled for Thursday 28 January. There will also be a low- and no-reserve auction for a package of 51 names, with 50% of the sale proceeds to benefit PAZAPA (www.siloe.org), a nonprofit organization that provides care, treatment, and education for handicapped children in Haiti. … more
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January 26th, 2010 by David Goldstein
A record number of .FI-domain names were registered in 2009. The total of registrations was 48,009 taking the total number of registrations to 225,625 at the end of the year. … more
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January 26th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Rick Latona Auctions extended sale of over 600 domain names is active now and will run until 4 February. … more
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January 26th, 2010 by David Goldstein
As of 7 February there are changes to the manager of the .CO (Colombia) registry and to the registration policies.
The new company managing the .CO registry will be Internet SAS and to coincide with them taking over the registry management the following changes to registration policies are being implemented, the most important of these being: … more
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January 25th, 2010 by David Goldstein
The growing list of contenders for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) has seen the Spanish city of Madrid enter the race with a proposal for .MADRID. … more
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January 23rd, 2010 by David Goldstein
Following a special meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors on Friday, Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO, has announced via a posting on the ICANN blog that the Nairobi meeting will go ahead as planned in March. … more
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January 23rd, 2010 by David Goldstein
Due to an unexpectedly large number of good submissions for the PITCHfest session scheduled forTuesday, January 26, at DOMAINfest Global, a second PITCHfest session has been added. The submissions received have been extremely relevant to attendees and, accordingly, to accommodate all that deserve attention,it was decided to replace the LAUNCHfest session (scheduled for Thursday, January 28) with a second PITCHfest session. … more
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January 23rd, 2010 by David Goldstein
The ongoing GNSO Improvements process has created significant community interest in the formation of new GNSO constituencies. One of those proposals is for a new Consumers Constituency. Proponents of the Consumers Constituency originally submitted a New Constituency Petition and Charter to the ICANN Board on 14 April 2009. A revised version of the proposal, responding to several Board inquiries was submitted to the Board on 15 September 2009. … more
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