http://www.domainpulse.com The Beat on the Domain Name Industry - Domain Name Industry News Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:32:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ICANN today voted to delay consideration of the .XXX Top Level Domain (TLD) in its board meeting at their 37th meeting held this week in Nairobi, Kenya. Among other decisions, the board also decided that there will be no co-ownership between registries and registrars for new gTLDs. For .XXX, the board resolved ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/12/icann-votes-to-delay-xxx-consideration/ 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. The purpose of the Trust is to promote and support forums in New Zealand for education and ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/11/ipv6-taskforce-trust-formed-in-new-zealand/ [news release] Traffic Milan is looking for Test Track submissions for their first 2010 European show, which will be held on April 27th-29th 2010 in Milan, Italy. Test Track is one of Targeted Traffic’s biggest and most anticipated events at the conference. Applications to pitch your business to a group of ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/11/targeted-traffic-is-looking-for-test-track-submissions-for-their-upcoming-show-in-milan/ 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. The proposal for ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/10/sex-gets-domain-name-industry-hearts-aflutter-with-sexcom-and-xxx-in-the-news/ 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. Domains that may be released are: all currently reserved one ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/10/nominet-commences-consultation-on-one-character-two-letter-reserved-uk-domains/ 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. The city government for Basel is currently looking at the economics of such an application, whether ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/10/basel-joins-the-list-of-potential-gtld-applicants/ 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]. The .PRO TLD was approved during the 2000 proof-of-concept round of new gTLDs and its original agreement is due to expire on 27 May ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/10/icann-public-comment-proposed-pro-renewal-registry-agreement/ Abstract: This paper divides in two parts. The first part elaborates on the difference among categories of "legalities" that have developed on the globe, and considers their shapes and thickness as irreducible to the uniform notion of a "global law". Different pictures and explanations affect sensibly in epistemic and pragmatic ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/07/the-rule-of-law-in-global-governance-its-normative-construction-function-and-import/ Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO and president, recently visited China on 2-3 March for talks with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Industry leaders and CNNIC, the China Internet information Network on his way to the ICANN Nairobi meeting that is currently underway. The visit was Beckstrom’s first major bilateral visit ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/07/icann-ceos-china-visit-notes/ 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. In their update NIC Chile advised that during and after the earthquake, DNS service for .CL worked without interruption. Service continuity was ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/07/cl-back-suffers-slight-delays-following-chilean-earthquake/ 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. In this process, DENIC initially registers the Key Signing Keys used as Trust Anchor, ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/07/dnssec-edges-closer-for-de/ 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. For example, an initial complaint will have to be submitted to the WIPO Arbitration ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/07/nl-dispute-resolution-system-now-entirely-electronic/ 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. The major issue is whether private individuals should continue to register domain names in the PRIV.NO category or be allowed ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/07/no-holds-consultation-on-domain-names-for-individuals/ 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. "In .ZA, licensing regulations are expected to come into operation this year. The .ZA licensing regulations will allow Zadna to license the ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/07/za-to-introduce-rules-to-thwart-squatters/ The sale of poker.org for $1 million was the biggest sale in the three weeks to 21 February according to Domain Name Journal’s list of reported domain name sales. The sale was the largest .ORG sale ever with the previous record being engineering.org, sold several years ago for $198,000. Other big ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2010/03/07/1m-pokerorg-sale-tops-domain-sales-in-recent-weeks/