Archive for August, 2011

Multiyear Registrations Prove Popular For .EU

Multiyear Registrations Prove Popular For .EU

Almost one in eight (12.3%) of .EU registrations in the second quarter of 1011 were now for multiyear registrations following the registry’s implementation of...

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Multiyear Registrations Prove Popular For .EU

Multiyear Registrations Prove Popular For .EU

Almost one in eight (12.3%) of .EU registrations in the second quarter of 1011 were now for multiyear registrations following the registry’s implementation of...

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Safe, Stable and Secure New gTLDs: ICANN Seeks Global Background Screening Services Provider

Safe, Stable and Secure New gTLDs: ICANN Seeks Global Background Screening Services Provider

ICANN is issuing today a Request for Proposal (RFP) [PDF, 104 KB] to identify a Global Background Screening Service Provider capable of generating a thorough and...

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Safe, Stable and Secure New gTLDs: ICANN Seeks Global Background Screening Services Provider

Safe, Stable and Secure New gTLDs: ICANN Seeks Global Background Screening Services Provider

ICANN is issuing today a Request for Proposal (RFP) [PDF, 104 KB] to identify a Global Background Screening Service Provider capable of generating a thorough and...

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IPv4 Trading: Arguing For And Against

As IPv4 address space dwindles, there is a debate as to whether an exchange for trading unused address blocks should be created, and ars technical has asked two...

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IPv4 Trading: Arguing For And Against

As IPv4 address space dwindles, there is a debate as to whether an exchange for trading unused address blocks should be created, and ars technical has asked two...

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Advertisers On Both Sides of Atlantic Complain About New gTLDs

Following criticisms from two American advertising associations of the ICANN proposal for new generic Top Level Domains, two more advertising groups, one on each...

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Advertisers On Both Sides of Atlantic Complain About New gTLDs

Following criticisms from two American advertising associations of the ICANN proposal for new generic Top Level Domains, two more advertising groups, one on each...

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2011′s Biggest ccTLD Sale Tops Weekly Sales List

2011′s Biggest ccTLD Sale Tops Weekly Sales List

The year’s biggest ccTLD sale easily topped the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for the week to 24 July, with aktien.de (stocks or shares in German)...

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2011′s Biggest ccTLD Sale Tops Weekly Sales List

2011′s Biggest ccTLD Sale Tops Weekly Sales List

The year’s biggest ccTLD sale easily topped the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for the week to 24 July, with aktien.de (stocks or shares in German)...

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.VN IDNs Popular With Rural Vietnamese Internet Users

.VN IDNs Popular With Rural Vietnamese Internet Users

Vietnamese internet users in rural areas have taken to the Vietnamese language internationalised domain name, making up a large proportion of the 320,000 Vietnamese...

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.VN IDNs Popular With Rural Vietnamese Internet Users

.VN IDNs Popular With Rural Vietnamese Internet Users

Vietnamese internet users in rural areas have taken to the Vietnamese language internationalised domain name, making up a large proportion of the 320,000 Vietnamese...

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WIPO Launches Dispute Resolution Services for .QA and قطر. (Qatar)

WIPO Launches Dispute Resolution Services for .QA and قطر. (Qatar)

As of 22 August, the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center commenced providing .domain name dispute resolution servicesfor both QA and قطر. (Qatar) in accordance...

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WIPO Launches Dispute Resolution Services for .QA and قطر. (Qatar)

WIPO Launches Dispute Resolution Services for .QA and قطر. (Qatar)

As of 22 August, the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center commenced providing .domain name dispute resolution servicesfor both QA and قطر. (Qatar) in accordance...

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Former ICANN Chair Dyson Says New gTLDs “Will Create Jobs, But Little Extra Value”

Esther Dyson, the inaugural ICANN chair from October 1998 to November 2000, has come out again against new generic Top Level Domains saying in an article for the...

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