Day five, the final day of ICANN’s meeting in San Juan, and ICANN discusses moving towards implementing new top level domains (TLDs) and internationalised domain names (IDNs). (Read more…)
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The IANA website has got a much needed revamp and they want your comments. The new site, currently in beta mode, has been more or less designed from scratch. Kim Davies writes on the ICANN Blog that all web pages were rewritten, and their place on the website rethought. They are also working towards a site that is complies with all standards, and displays properly many different browsers. (Read more…)
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A fight has begun over the virtual existence of Germany’s capital: Does a .berlin address space have a right to exist beside the old standby berlin.de? The outcome of the fight could have a broader effect on the future of city names on the Internet. So reports Intellectual Property Watch. (Read more…)
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(Reporting from the ICANN Meeting in San Juan, Puerto-Rico). With the meeting well underway, another iteration of what one calls the ICANN paradox becomes more and more apparent. A representated from the organization clearly stated that new Top Level Domains will not even be considered before at least a year and a half, they are still what pretty much every one talks about.
Yesterday had a whole session on “geoTLDs”. Following .Berlin’s footsteps, .Paris and .NYC made interesting presentations and are now regrouped under an ad-hoc web site. What is a Geo TLD behind a concept to promote one capital or another? This session was not the best one to get a better explanation, but the motivation of the promoters was communicative nevertheless. When asked about the additional delay discussed earlier, a .Berlin representative told us “this is why we have to make noise! ICANN needs to understand we are ready and the Internet users want it”.
Today was about Freedom of speech and new TLDs. Should “.Fag” and “.Nazi” be allowed in the root? As one participant said “the one thing ICANN is afraid about is precedent. Let’s make sure there is no way that such horrible strings can be applied for… And risk having no new TLD at all in the process”. The debate was fascinating for legal minds and political scholars: what is free speech, how to uphold it in the digital age… But the in the end, the truth was far more concrete: no TLDs shall happen any time soon.
As for the “old new” ones, the .Travel representative is still present at this ICANN meeting, DomainNews will try to get some status report soon. Stuart Lawley, from .XXX was still seen wandering around in the corridors, still hopeful. Meanwhile, .EH for Saharian Territories is a new battlefield between the government of Morrocco and a private entity… And the TLD does not even exist yet!
The industry will not be stopped by ICANN… Or vice-versa.
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(Reporting from the ICANN Meeting in San Juan, Puerto-Rico). When PIR, the .Org Registry asked for an amendment to its contract with ICANN, the decision was met with little fanfare.
Nevertheless, the Registry’s decision to charge a five 5 cents deletion fee per domain to “Registrars who would delete more than 90% of the domains registered in a month” can be seen as some kind of “Domainer Tax” and was highly talked about this week in the ICANN corridors.
Indeed, when thousands of domains are tasted per month, a mere 5 cents can represent a lot of money in the end. From what we have heard, as far as PIR is concerned, the amendment, implemented a month ago, is already deemed successful as it is responsible for quite a dramatic down in domain names deletion. While the Registry is currently happy with the outcome, it could move the threshold from 90% to a lesser number to make an even stronger deterent to Tasting… A solution that other gTLDs are reportedly looking into, with the strong backing of the Intellectual Property Constituency.
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Want to come to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in Florida or Las Vegas for FREE?? Just guess the total the silent auction brings by noon Wednesday June 27th (today!) and be within $100,000 and a free ticket is yours!
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(Reporting from the ICANN Meeting in San Juan, Puerto-Rico) Alongside the usual T-shirt, ICANN attendees had an even nicer surprise in their bags: the full – and final – .ASIA Calendar! The document is quite useful for one who wants to get ready to protect its portfolio in Asia. For brand owners, the key date is October 9th for the very beginning of the so-called Sunrise Period (for marks registered before March 16, 2004).The “landrush” were similar requests for non trademarks could result in an auction is now scheduled for the month of February next year, “right after Chinese New Year”. (Read more…)
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A news release from Nic Mexico notes that “[a]ccording to forecasts of some investigators, in the next three years the central pool of Internet Protocol addresses of the present version 4, IPv4 will be depleted, so from January 1st, of 2011, NIC Mexico will not be able to allocate anymore IPv4 addresses and will only assign IP addresses in version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). (Read more…)
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(Reporting from the ICANN meeting in San Juan). New gTLDs were supposed to be one of the “attraction” of the 29th ICANN meeting (sanjuan2007.icann.org/) that is currently taking place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After the .XXX debacle and more and more coverage on .Berlin , the industry is eager to move on and the Board room was rather full to hear yet another progress report on the road to new gTLDs that could complement .Mobi, .Asia, .Travel, .Info and others.
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ICANN’s 29th international meeting kicked off on Monday (25th) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Much warmer than it currently is in Sydney, it would be nice to be there! The serious business of this ICANN meeting has received widespread coverage from 2 sources – Associated Press and IDG. The Register through Burke Hansen is also there. Internationalised Domain Names, new TLDs, transparency and IPv6 are among the items to be discussed. (Read more…)
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