Domain Names
13 November 2012
Gabon Resists Latest Dotcom Venture, But New Zealand Seems OK To Mega
It keeps a lot to keep Kim Dotcom down. Accused of facilitating online piracy through his venture Megaupload and fighting extradition to the United States, the German now residing in New Zealand has had a minor hiccup with his latest file sharing venture.
11 November 2012
Kenya's mobile telephones: A report describes the sacrifices the poor make to keep a mobile phone The Economist
Africa's "mobile decade", when telephones at last reached most corners of the continent, has meant a huge improvement in the lives of the poor. But quantifying it is hard. How useful can a mobile phone be to someone living on less than $2.50 a day, the World Bank's standard benchmark of poverty? Researchers in Kenya have given a partial answer. They find that people will skip a meal or choose to walk instead of paying for a bus fare so that they can keep their phone in credit.
10 November 2012
ICANN CEO Announces Expanded Partnership Initiatives at Close of Internet Governance Forum
[news release] ICANN Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé has announced a series of working partnerships that have sprung out of this week's Internet Governance Forum in Azerbaijan.
08 November 2012
Internationalised Domains Essential For Global Internet
Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) are an essential building block for creating a truly multilingual Internet a joint report from EURid, the .EU registry, and UNESCO has found.
07 November 2012
Sedo Chalks Up $15m and 8181 In Sales For Q3 2012 As Sales Drop Amongst Increased Competition
Sedo's dominant grip at the top of the domain name aftermarket chart has slipped with recent increased competition from other marketplaces, and while the company still accounts for more domain name sales than any other, both the volume and value of domains sold was the lowest of at least the last few years.
New ICANN CEO Sets Out Key Goals Until Beijing Meeting
ICANN's new CEO and president, Fadi Chehadé, has set out what he considers the key goals for himself and ICANN in the leadup to the next ICANN meeting in Beijing, China, to be held from 7 to 11 April.
02 November 2012
Verisign Update On .COM Renewal: Expect Commerce Dept To Approve Registry Agreement Soon
The pending approval of Verisign's .COM Registry Agreement is still underway and Verisign issued an update on 1 November. Verisign note that the main changes in the new Registry Agreement are "except for new provisions regarding indemnification, audit rights and more stringent service levels." And prices charged to registrars for .COM domains as well of course.
01 November 2012
ICANN, EURid And UNESCO Go IGF-ing In Azerbaijan
ICANN Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé and Board Chair Dr. Stephen Crocker are on their way to the Internet Governance Forum Baku, Azerbaijan, to join other ICANN executives in conducting an 'Open Forum' session.
26 October 2012
Verisign .COM Registry Approval Held Up By US Govt Over Pricing Concerns, Which They Previously Agreed
Verisign may have successfully renewed their .COM Registry Agreement with ICANN and seemingly come to agreement with the US government, but are now having the pricing terms reviewed by the US government due to concerns over the previously agreed price increases.
25 October 2012
APWG Report: Phishing Websites Proliferate at Record Speed in First Half of 2012
A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) at their conference here this week reveals that while the uptime of phishing websites dropped during the first half of 2012, cybercriminals were driving substantial increases in the numbers of phishing websites they established to steal from consumers.
23 October 2012
ICANN: CEO to Prioritise Agreement with Registrars and Establishment of Trademark Clearing House
[ICANN news release] ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer, Fadi Chehadé says he is prioritising efforts to reach a resolution with domain name registrars in the on-going negotiations to achieve a Registrar Accreditation Agreement.
17 October 2012
Initiative Unveiled to Increase ICANN's Presence and Participation across Africa
Leaders of Africa's Internet community have unveiled a comprehensive plan designed to dramatically increase African involvement in ICANN's multi-stakeholder model.
13 October 2012
Marketing insights from Australian Football Finals - Domain Names v Social Media
In the recent football grand finals in Australian on the last weekend in September, ARI Registry Services' CEO Adrian Kinderis did an analysis of the 67 television commercials that aired in the Melbourne televised editions.
05 October 2012
18,000 Websites Seized In Global Illicit Online Pharmacy Crackdown
A global operation coordinated by Interpol spanning 100 countries saw 18,000 websites and linked to illicit online pharmacies being identified and shut down, the suspension of payment facilities of online rogue pharmacies, and the disruption of a massive number of spam emails and social networking messages.
03 October 2012
ICANN Looking To Consolidate Meeting Locations
Due largely to difficulties in finding host cities for its three meetings per year, ICANN is looking to host annual meetings in the Asia Pacific and Europe, while rotating the third meeting each year between North America, Africa and Latin America/Caribbean.
How Many Domain Names Papa? 240 Million And Rising!
Johnny Cash sang in the song Five Feet High and Rising, "how high's the water mama?" The reply finished with "five feet high and rising." If he were alive today he could sing "how many domain names papa?" The answer would be "240 million and rising."
01 October 2012
Europe Says Proposed WHOIS Data Verification and Data Retention Proposals Unlawful
The European Commission has expressed concerns to ICANN about the proposed revisions of the two remaining unresolved issues in the Registrar Accreditation Agreement concerning verifying contact details and data retention of WHOIS data saying the proposed requirements would be unlawful in Europe. The Working Party is also miffed that ICANN has made no effort to discuss the issues from a European perspective.
30 September 2012
Swedish Registry Answers Questions On Will It Shut Down ThePirateBay.se
With The Pirate Bay now using a .SE domain name in an attempt to avoid US authorities seizing control of its domain, the Swedish registry .se has put out a statement explaining the situation for the file sharing sites current preferred domain name.
UN Broadband Commission uses power of social networks to urge the world to 'B more with #Broadband' International Telcommunication Union
To coincide with the launch of the State of Broadband 2012 report, the Broadband Commission for Digital Development is tomorrow conducting an online experiment: How many people can be mobilized to lend their support for the Commission's key message of broadband inclusion for all?
27 September 2012
Blacknight to ICANN - The Registration of Generic Key Word TLDs Should Be Available to All People
ICANN's new gTLD project has received a lot of media attention over the last few months. A new group headed by Irish registrar and hosting company Blacknight has supported the opening up of the internet via new domain names, but they also have serious concerns about how some companies want to "corner off" generic terms ie. keep an entire domain extension to themselves.
ARI, Neustar, Verisign, Demand Seek Community Support For Alternative Trademark Clearinghouse Solution ARI Registry Services
ARI Registry Services, Neustar, Verisign and Demand Media have spent the past three months producing an alternative solution for the operation of ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse for the new generic Top Level Domain program.
24 September 2012
Security Experts Urge Against Dotless Domains, New gTLD Applicants in Favour
Dotless domains may have been rejected as an option by ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) and other security experts, but there are some urging ICANN to not dismiss the idea.
21 September 2012
US Consumer Group Slams Google And Amazon gTLD Applications; Says Privatising The Web
Consumer Watchdog have written to US senators urging them to block attempts by Google and Amazon to buy control of huge swaths of the internet through their applications for large numbers of new generic Top Level Domains.
19 September 2012
gTLDs: 6000 Comments and Nobody Liked Digital Archery: Outgoing Interim ICANN CEO Speaks To WSJ Wall Street Journal
Before he handed over the reins to Fadi Chehadé, the then interim CEO of ICANN, Akram Atallah, gave the Wall Street Journal an update on how the generic Top Level Domain process was going.
16 September 2012
RIPE NCC Begins to Allocate IPv4 Address Space From the Last /8 RIPE NCC
On Friday 14 September, 2012, the RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, distributed the last blocks of IPv4 address space from the available pool.
