February 27th, 2010 by 
David Goldstein
A survey of the domain registration behaviour of Fortune 100 companies conducted by Minds + Machines reveals that they have not registered many of their trademarks in recently created generic top-level domains (gTLDs). … more
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February 24th, 2010 by David Goldstein
In what is being described by Chinese government officials as a means of tackling online pornography, individual domain name registrants are now able to register domain names, but are being forced to meet regulators and produce identity documents. Online activists are describing the new requirements as added censorship for Chinese internet users. … more
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February 22nd, 2010 by David Goldstein
ICANN’s Kevin Wilson has posted on the ICANN blog a report on ICANN’s commitment to accountability and transparency that outlines the progress ICANN has made in this area. … more
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February 12th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Afilias has announced it has acquired mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd., the sponsoring organisation and registry operator for the .MOBI Top Level Domain. … more
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February 11th, 2010 by David Goldstein
China has taken its censorship of .CN websites a step further following CNNIC’s hiring of 600 temporary workers to check all .CN domain names for pornographic content and inaccurate records, says an IDG report. … more
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February 1st, 2010 by David Goldstein
History of IPv4
It has long been anticipated, but the available pool of unallocated Internet addresses using the older IPv4 protocol – which holds a total of slightly more than four billion IP addresses - has now dipped to below the 10 percent mark, meaning that there are only a bit over 400 million IP addresses left in the global pool of unallocated addresses. … more
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January 27th, 2010 by David Goldstein
CENTR, the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, has produced a video to help explain the functioning of the Domain Name System (DNS). … more
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January 21st, 2010 by David Goldstein
Rumours have been circulating in recent days that ICANN are reconsidering holding their meeting in Nairobi in March. These rumours have been confirmed to be more than that with ICANN announcing they will be holding a special meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors on 22 January. … more
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January 12th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Program ensures global representation at ICANN’s International Public Meetings
ICANN has launched the 10th round of Fellowship program applications for its 38th International Public Meeting to be held in Brussels, Belgium on 20-25 June 2010. … more
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January 11th, 2010 by David Goldstein
CZ.NIC, the registry for .CZ domain names, has released a new version of registration rules that came into effect on 1 January 2010. … more
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January 11th, 2010 by David Goldstein
The most popular options for a Cyrillic Top Level Domain for Bulgarians are “.бг” and “.бгр” according to an online poll conducted by Bulgaria’s Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications (MTITC) in December 2009. … more
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December 25th, 2009 by David Goldstein
India can adopt telephone number mapping to avoid migrating from 10-digit mobile number to an 11-digit number. The ever-increasing number of fresh subscribers every month has exhausted the allotment of new serial mobile numbers available with the department of telecom (DoT), forcing the industry to seek migration to the 11-digit solution. … more
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December 13th, 2009 by David Goldstein
The registry for .HK (Hong Kong) is introducing internationalised domain names with plans to introduce the Chinese version of the .HK country code and allowing all registrants with an existing .HK domain name to get the IDN version for free. … more
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September 20th, 2009 by David Goldstein
CZ.NIC, the registry for .CZ (Czech Republic) domain names will hold their third ENUM Day on Thursday 15 October in Prague. … more
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September 17th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Anne-Rachel Inne, Africa’s regional liaison ICANN was interviewed during the Highway Africa conference in South Africa by Computerworld Kenya. Inne says there are so few African countries participating in ICANN activities because “people don’t have the means to go to international meetings”, however this problem is not unique to Africa. It’s a problem of all African countries. … more
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