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Minds + Machines Survey Shows Brands Do Not Register Defensively in New gTLDs

time February 27th, 2010 by author 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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Domain Name Registration Rules For Chinese Individuals Tightened

time February 24th, 2010 by author 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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ICANN’s Cost Accounting and Procurement Guidelines Posted

time February 22nd, 2010 by author David Goldstein

ICANN logoICANN’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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Afilias Acquires dotMobi and Becomes 100% Irish

time February 12th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

dotMobi logoAfilias 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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.CN Takes Censorship One Step Further

time February 11th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

CNNIC logoChina 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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To 4,294,967,296 and Beyond – Under 10% of IPv4 Space Remains: Adoption of IPv6 Is Essential

time February 1st, 2010 by author David Goldstein

ICANN logoHistory 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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CENTR Video on How the DNS Works

time January 27th, 2010 by author 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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ICANN Nairobi Meeting in Doubt Due to Security Concerns

time January 21st, 2010 by author David Goldstein

ICANN logoRumours 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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Application Round Opens for Brussels Meeting Fellowships

time January 12th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

ICANN logoProgram 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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.CZ Introduces New Registration Rules

time January 11th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

cz.nic logoCZ.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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Bulgaria Conducts Online Poll to Find Cyrillic TLD

time January 11th, 2010 by author 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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E-numbering can help India avoid 11-digit regime

time December 25th, 2009 by author 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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.HK Registry Applies for Chinese Character Version of TLD

time December 13th, 2009 by author 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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CZ.NIC to Hold ENUM Day 3

time September 20th, 2009 by author David Goldstein

cz.nic logoCZ.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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Africa’s liaison to ICANN: Outreach is under way

time September 17th, 2009 by author David Goldstein

ICANN logoAnne-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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