Monday, 11 July 2011 09:36 Domain News
Stephen Croker,recently named Chaiman of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board will present the keynote speech at the upcoming Munich Conference on new TLDs .
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Monday, 11 July 2011 09:31 David Goldstein
The tightening of registration policies for .CN domain names by CNNIC has seen a rapid decline in the number of phishers using .CN domain names and an increase in the use of other top level domains and services, and in particular the CO.CC sub-domain and .TK country code TLD.
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Monday, 11 July 2011 03:18 Domain News
SnapNames used to host an auction every month .Usually,they hosted these auctions at the beginning of each month.However,it seems that this month the company will not host its well known Showcase auction .
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Monday, 11 July 2011 03:17 Domain News
Translations.co.uk domain name was recently sold through the Sedo domain name marketplace for $41,460 .
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Monday, 11 July 2011 03:16 Domain News
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit public benefit corporation responsible for coordinating critical Internet resources.
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Sunday, 10 July 2011 12:44 David Goldstein
Abstract: The Internet is emphatically not a government free zone. A central part is ICANN, the institution which regulates the ‘root’ of the internet (the domain name system and internet protocol addresses). This a fundamental element of the architecture of the Internet. We would be, literally, lost without it. In a sense, the code of the Internet, its protocols and languages are regulation – they control how the system behaves. ICANN is the regulator who regulates that ‘regulation.’ Principles of global administrative law can, once suitably modified for the context, suggest the most effective reforms.
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Sunday, 10 July 2011 03:34 Domain News
The auction for Accomodation.co.uk domain name is live on Sedo .The domain name received one bid of 10,000 GBP and has only three days left until the auction will close.
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Sunday, 10 July 2011 03:33 Domain News
An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum has awarded bingwebmaster.com and buscadorbing.net domain names to Microsoft.
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Saturday, 09 July 2011 11:29 David Goldstein
Opening for an ALAC Representative from the North American Region
Following the resignation of the ALAC representative from the North American region, appointed by ICANN’s 2010 Nominating Committee (NomCom), the 2011 NomCom invites Statements of Interest for this important ICANN leadership position.
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Saturday, 09 July 2011 03:55 Domain News
DNS.BE ,the non-profit organization that has managed the registration of all .be domain names,has recently published its 2010 annual report .
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Saturday, 09 July 2011 03:54 Domain News
The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) approved at its meeting on 22 June 2011 a number of recommendations on the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part B Policy Development Process (PDP). The resolution, which is pending for Board action, proposes:
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Friday, 08 July 2011 07:34 Domain News
An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum has awarded the domain name HPTablet.com domain name to Hewlett Packard .
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Friday, 08 July 2011 07:06 David Goldstein
Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose
The Board-GAC Joint Working Group was established 26 June 2009 to conduct a review of the role of the GAC within ICANN. The final report from the Working Group was submitted to the Board in Singapore and the Board resolved on 24 June 2011 to have the report posted for public comment.
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Friday, 08 July 2011 03:44 Domain News
Social.com domain name,sold for $2.6 million through Moniker,topped Domain Name Journal weekly sales list of reported domain names in the week to July 3,2011 .
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Friday, 08 July 2011 03:43 Domain News
DJE.com domain name was sold through the Sedo domain name marketplace for 32,000 EUR .
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 11:07 Domain News
Google removed over 11 million .CO.CC domain names from its results.The company considered that there are too many "spammy" .CO.CC websites .
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 11:05 Domain News
EURID,the registry for the .eu top level domain,successfully passed the disaster tests.The .eu registrations systems were transferred from the registry’s data center in Brussels,Belgium to Amsterdam .
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 11:05 Domain News
dotMobi announced today the launching of a low-cost cloud version of its award-winning DeviceAtlas service .
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 07:00 David Goldstein
GCSEC, in cooperation with ICANN and DNS-OARC, announces the 2011 Workshop on DNS Health and Security (DNS-EASY 2011) will be held in Rome, Italy, 18-19 October 2011.
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 04:02 Domain News
ICANN wants to find an agency to help the organization advertise the new gTLDs .However,the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers have only $750K to spend .
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