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ICANN’s NomCom Goes Transparent With Its Own Blog
ICANN’s 2011 Nominating Committee has taken the idea of transparency and pushed it along and started up a blog to better communicate with the wider ICANN community...
Apply Now for ICANN’s Leadership Positions
Apply Now to Join the ICANN Board, the Councils of GNSO and ccNSO, and the ALAC ICANN’s Nominating Committee (Nom Com) invites Statements of Interest and...
ICANN: Extending Public Comments: Fast Track Review
Per community request the first annual review of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process has been extended. Comments can be submitted to fast-track-review-2010@icann.org...
HomeOwnersInsurance.com Breaks Cool Half Million
There were two six-figure sales in the week to 28 November with HomeOwnersInsurance.com topping the Domain Name Journal sales list, selling for $570,000 through...
Delay For New gTLDs Sees August Launch Date Likely
ICANN is likely to push back the date for which it begins taking applications till at least August according to documents published by ICANN this week, and reported...
One of Australia’s Largest Retailers Forgets To Renew Premium Domain, And Rival Snaps It Up
One of Australia’s largest retailers appears to have neglected to have registered a premium generic domain name, with its main rival snapping it up.
Jordan To Host ICANN June 2011 Meeting
Amman, Jordan, was selected to host ICANN’s second meeting in 2011, the meeting slated for the Asia Pacific region. The meeting will be held from 19 to 24 June....
ICM Registry Launches Founders Programme
ICM Registry, who has applied to ICANN for the controversial sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD) .XXX, a TLD exclusively for adult websites, has developed a “founders”...
DENIC To Release Nine Remaining Short Domains in January
On 12 January 2011, 10:00 CET, the registry for .DE domain names, DENIC is going to make available nine short domains for registration which were previously blocked...
WikiLeaks.org Back Online
The wikileaks.org domain name is back in action following the decision by EveryDNS to terminate registrar services for the domain last week at the height of the...
American Man Pleads Guilty To Domain Name Theft
The domain name P2P.com was stolen by a New Jersey man and sold on eBay for more than $111,000, AP reports.
Implementing DNSSEC
Cisco’s The Internet Protocol Journal has published an article titled Implementing DNSSEC explaining the challenges that are involved with DNSSEC and what experience...
.IS Introduces “Dispute-Lock” For Disputed Domains
.IS domain names in dispute will be locked under changes to dispute resolution rules ISNIC, the Icelandic registry, has ruled.
A .Com Domain Name Increases A Company’s Exposure To Foreign Lawsuits, Rules European Court
“Companies using a .com or .eu domain name, or displaying international codes for phone numbers, are more likely to be ‘directing’ their activities...
Swiss Registry Outlines Why Wikileaks.ch Can’t Be Deleted
With the registration of wikileaks.ch, the registry for .CH domain names, SWITCH, has been receiving what they say have been a large number of enquiries as to the...
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