Guidebook and Public Comment Forum ICANN posted the translations today for public comment on the April 2011 Discussion Draft of the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook in the 5 UN languages:…
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
ICANN has appointed a hacker as its Chief Security Officer the organisation announced Thursday. However the appointment of Jeff Moss is not a case of bad boy turned good. Moss…
The cloud is going to be big, and it’s a reasonable bet that Apple’s version of the cloud will be… “iCloud”. Especially with rumours Apple recently bought icloud.com, according to…
It is not always the case that it is just a case of buy a domain name, wait a while, and sell it for a profit. The Financial Times today…
UPDATE: LACNIC has advised the proposal for .LAC is a possible fraud and they are investigating commencing legal actions. It may not be as sexy as .XXX, but the proposed…
The latest DOMAINfest Europe is coming soon to Barcelona with over 250 domainers expected to attend following last year’s successful event in Prague. There will also be a premium Moniker…
Purpose of this document This document provides a background report on the progress of an active Global Policy proposal. It is intended as a background briefing for the ICANN Board…
Twenty five years ago this week the first .NL domain name was registered. In the 25 years since over 4,412,300 million .NL domains have been registered and SIDN, the .NL…
The Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne have expressed an interest in applying for the .SYDNEY and .MELBOURNE generic Top Level Domains with governments in both cities saying they will…
ICANN is today opening a public comment period on a proposed amendment [PDF, 89 KB] from mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd. to Appendices 6 and 7 of the .MOBI Registry…
ICANN is actively seeking locations for its three public meetings to be held 7-12 April 2013 in Asia Pacific, 14-19 July 2013 in Africa, and 17-22 November 2013 in Latin…
ICANN has accused Luxembourg-based registrar EuroDNS of breaching their Registrar Accreditation Agreement according to a letter dated 20 April. The breach, disputed by EuroDNS, involves the domain name facebok.com, that…
In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org) to receive the call details. You are invited to participate in a webinar on the current state…
The delegation and management of variant TLDs remains an important issue. The ICANN community seeks to develop solutions to enable the delegation of Variant TLDs for the benefit of users…
The landrush phase for the remaining 2,640, out of a total of 49,223, short domains, those of one or two characters, will begin on 23 May Nominet, the registry for…