A proposal for the .ECO generic Top Level Domain has quietly shelved its idea following the withdrawal of its key backer, the Al Gore-backed Climate Reality Project, leaving the only…
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Two of Ireland”s best known technology minds have launched a weekly podcast focussing on technology issues, including domain names. With an Irish flavour, Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin have…
by Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager Verisign Naming Services New gTLDs: changing the Internet For more than 25 years now, the world has been familiar with generic…
ICANN have announced they have engaged NORC at the University of Chicago to conduct a gTLD Whois Registrant Identification study, seeking a foundational understanding of the types of entities and…
Networking and fun are a tradition at DOMAINfest and this year there are three, exciting, new destinations. First they are headed to a world-class venue, House of Blues, in Hollywood…
Supporters of the adoption of IPv6 had been hoping that the London Olympics in 2012 would follow the 2008 Beijing Olympics where “the Chinese government boasted proudly of the way…
by Tony Kirsch, Top-Level Domain name specialist with AusRegistry International With less than 110 days to go until the application window opens, ICANN last week released the latest update of…
Rod Beckstrom, CEO and President of ICANN, has called on the world community to speak up in defense of the multi-stakeholder model that has served as the “catalyst for the…
by Michael Twist, Top-Level Domain specialist with AusRegistry International Whoever said there wasn’t enough room in Munich this time of year for anything but the mighty Oktoberfest clearly underestimated the…
The DotAsia Organisation is proud to announce the launch of Landrush.Asia, a platform where potential registrants can apply for their “.Asia” IDN directly. They can select from a list of…
Go Daddy, the granddaddy of all registrars, has passed the 50 million domain name milestone over the weekend, meaning they now have 50 million domain names under management.
Go Daddy, the granddaddy of all registrars, has passed the 50 million domain name milestone over the weekend, meaning they now have 50 million domain names under management.
Europeans will soon be able to register .FR domain names, along with other ccTLDs for French territories that AFNIC is the registry for, these being .WF, .TF, .RE, .PM, and…
Europeans will soon be able to register .FR domain names, along with other ccTLDs for French territories that AFNIC is the registry for, these being .WF, .TF, .RE, .PM, and…
The Scottish government has sought fresh support for the proposed .SCOT generic Top Level Domain from the UK government, which, as the BBC News report says “has responsibility for internet…