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Translations of April 2011 Discussion Draft of New gTLD Applicant Guidebook Available
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...
ICANN Appoints Hacker As Chief Security Officer
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...
Apple Rumoured To Pay $4.5m For iCloud.com
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...
Gambling.com Gives Owner $1.8m Loss On Sale
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 has a story on gambling.com...
Duelling Latin American gTLD Proposals Gain Curious Bedfellows
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...
DOMAINfest Europe Heads To Barcelona
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...
ICANN: Global Policy Proposal for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by IANA – Background Report, 25 April 2011
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...
.NL Celebrates 25 Years And 4.4 Million Domains
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,...
Sydney, Melbourne Likely To Apply For Own gTLDs
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...
ICANN: Public Comment: Proposed .MOBI Contract Amendment ‘Additional Equitable Allocation Options for .MOBI One and Two-Character Domains’
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...
Location Recommendations Now Being Accepted for ICANN’s 2013 Meetings
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...
ICANN RAA v Luxembourg Courts: European Registry Disputes ‘Unfounded’ Breach Notice
ICANN has accused Luxembourg-based registrar EuroDNS of breaching their Registrar Accreditation Agreement according to a letter dated 20 April. The breach, disputed...
ICANN: Current State of the UDRP Webinar Announcement
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...
ICANN: Call for Community Volunteers for IDN Variant TLD Case Study Teams
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...
Over 2,500 .UK Short Domains Available in Late May Landrush
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...
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