ICANN has launched its first African regional engagement office in Nairobi. ICANN made the announcement today (24/5) at a press briefing during bilateral engagements with the ICT Cabinet Secretary, Mr….
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Monthly Archives: May 2016
[news release] Uniregistry, Corp., a leading domain name registration services company, is pleased to announce the successful launch of the .game domain extension to the internet. .game is the first…
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued an alert warning how queries on internal enterprise computers can result in queries being made for publicly available domains.
Yesterday (25 May) ICANN delegated the 1,000th new gTLD, meaning there are now nearly 50 times as many gTLDs as there were in 2013 when the first four applications completed…
Matt Larson, an expert in DNS infrastructure and security, has joined ICANN as Vice President of Research.
[news release] Since its launch in June 2015, market interest in Nominet’s ground-breaking turing DNS monitoring and analytics platform has been strong. As it enters its next phase of development,…
The la.com domain sold for a very nice $1.2 million to top the weekly Domain Name Journal chart of reported sales for the week ending 8 May, and also became…
ICANN is seeking expressions of interest for leadership roles in the 2017 Nominating Committee (NomCom) – that of the 2017 NomCom Chair and Chair-Elect.
The .vip new gTLD entered General Availability on 17 May and has had the biggest launch of any of the new gTLDs, reaching 203,720 registrations five days later.
ICANN is having a bit of a rough trot in the last couple of years having to postpone its meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, by 12 months due to Ebola virus…
There were 12 three-character .com domain name sales including the top five in the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 1 May.
Brief Overview Purpose: This public comment proceeding seeks to obtain community input on proposed revisions to the language of the ICANN Expected Standards of Behaviors.
In an unexpected move, the two top U.S. officials charged with the Obama Administration’s Internet policy have issued a joint statement severely criticizing draft Chinese domain policies. On May 16th,…
Canon, the huge Japanese technology company, launched its new gTLD this week, redirecting canon.com to global.canon with many of the links on the website using the new gTLD.
Verisign have announced the launch of the phased rollout of the Korean language versions of .com and .net as well as the opening of the landrush period of the Japanese…