March 11th, 2010 by 
David Goldstein
The New Zealand IPv6 Taskforce has been registered as a Trust and charitable entity says the latest edition of The Browser, the monthly newsletter from InternetNZ, who manages .NZ as part of their duties. … more
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March 10th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Sex always makes a good story for the media, and so it has again recently with the .XXX Top Level Domain about to be discussed again at ICANN’s Nairobi, Kenya, meeting this week and the SEX.COM domain name up for grabs again next week to the highest bidder. … more
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March 10th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Nominet is planning to release two letter, one character and other reserved .UK domains. In planning for the release, the .UK registry has commenced a three month consultation process that closes on 8 June on how the domain names should be released. … more
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March 10th, 2010 by David Goldstein
The Swiss city of Basel has joined the growing list of cities to express an interest in applying for its city name as a Top Level Domain when ICANN asks for applications, possibly in 2011. … more
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March 10th, 2010 by David Goldstein
The proposed renewal of the .PRO registry agreement is posted for public comment at icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/pro/proposed-renewal-agreement-02mar10-en.pdf [PDF, 57 KB] and appendices at icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/pro/proposed-appendices-02mar10-en.pdf [PDF, 320 KB]. … more
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March 7th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Following the earthquake in Chile, NIC Chile posted an update on the status of its services during and after the earthquake early in the morning of Saturday 27 February. … more
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March 7th, 2010 by David Goldstein
The “DNSSEC Testbed for Germany” has entered a decisive phase: as of 2 March 2010 DENIC has given all second level domains under .DE the opportunity to participate in the DNSSEC testbed and to record their experiences. … more
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March 7th, 2010 by David Goldstein
SIDN has modified the Dispute Resolution Regulations for .NL domain names as of 4 March 2010. As a result of the changes, much of the correspondence that previously went by post will in future go by email. … more
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March 7th, 2010 by David Goldstein
UNINETT, the .NO (Norway) registry is currently holding a consultation process on how individuals can register Norwegian domain names in the future. The consultation process will be open until 17 May. … more
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March 7th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Responding to concerns on cybersquatting, the .ZA Domain Name Authority (Zadna - the South African registry) has announced they will be introducing new regulations in 2010. … more
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March 7th, 2010 by David Goldstein
.MX, the country code Top Level Domain for Mexico, has passed the 400,000th domain name registration reports NIC Mexico. … more
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March 2nd, 2010 by David Goldstein
AFNIC was re-appointed as registry for .FR domain names for a further seven years on 2 March, 2010 by the French Minister for Industry, Christian Estrosi. … more
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March 2nd, 2010 by David Goldstein
ICANN’s CEO, Rod Beckstrom, will visit China en route to Nairobi this week, reports IDG. Discussions due to take place are expected to include talks on China’s application to ICANN “for the globally supported use of domain names that end in “dot-China,” with the word “China” written in Chinese script,” a source said. … more
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February 27th, 2010 by David Goldstein
Mathieu Weill, AFNIC’s CEO, has replaced Andrzej Bartosiewicz from the Polish registry NASK as CEO of CENTR as his two-year term was coming to an end. … more
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February 27th, 2010 by David Goldstein
[news release] VeriSign, the operator of.com, announced today that President Bill Clinton will deliver the opening keynote address at its Policy Impact Forum in Washington D.C. on March 16. This event is part of a larger industry-wide campaign led by VeriSign recognizing 25 years of Internet innovation. … more
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