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• Russians Not So Eager to Embrace Cyrillic Domain Names

  
  CircleID — Authority: 520
  Clifford J. Levy of the New York Times reports: "[Russian] computer users are worried that Cyrillic domains will give rise to a hermetic Russian Web, a sort of cyberghetto, and that the push for Cyrillic amounts to a plot by the security services to restrict access to the Internet. Russian companies are also resisting ...
  13 hours ago

• Berlin the Latest New TLD Battleground?

  
  CircleID — Authority: 520
  If youve been following the new Top-Level Domain (TLD) process within ICANN over the last year or so you will have probably been aware of how slow and tortuous development has been. To recap, ICANN, which oversees domain names globally, announced that it was "opening up" the internet so that "anyone" could get the ...
  1 day ago

• Expressions of Interest for New TLDs Still a Long Wait

  
  Domain Name Wire — Authority: 539
  Idea to get data on new TLDs will probably take longer than expected. If the current draft plan ( pdf ) for accepting “Expressions of Interest” for new top level domain names is adopted in similar form, ICANN won’t start accepting applications until June 2010 at the earliest. The delay is because ICANN will ...
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• ICANN Requests Public Comment on One & Two-Character .CAT Domains

  
  DomainPulse.com - The Beat on the Domain Name Industry — Authority: 429
  ICANN is today opening a public comment forum on a proposed amendment from Fundacio puntCAT to Appendix 6 of the .CAT Registry Agreement. On 19 October 2009, ICANN posted for public information a request submitted by puntCAT through the Registry Services Evaluation Process for a request for proposals process to ...
  2 days ago

• ICANN: New gTLD Program - ICANN Proposes Draft Expression of Interest / Pre-Registrations Model

  
  DomainPulse.com - The Beat on the Domain Name Industry — Authority: 429
  ICANN is publishing today for public comment a draft model for soliciting Expressions of Interest for new generic top-level domains (new gTLDs) [PDF, 192K]. According to this EOI / pre-registration model, entities interested in participating in the first round of the New gTLD Program are required to submit basic ...
  2 days ago

• ICANN: Public Comment: STI Report on Trademark Protection in New gTLDs

  
  DomainPulse.com - The Beat on the Domain Name Industry — Authority: 429
  The Special Trademarks Issues Working Team (STI) has published its Report on its recommendations to create a Trademark Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid Suspension procedure to protect trademarks in the New GTLD Program. The public comment period ends on 26 January 2010. Special Trademark Issues Review Team ...
  2 days ago

• You Dont Need to Hack Twitter.com to Control All Its Traffic and Email

  
  CircleID — Authority: 520
  A big security news event last night and today is that the Twitter.com Web site was hacked and content on the site replaced. TechCrunch reported it and it has been picked up globally. But - was the Twitter.com website really hacked? We now know it was not so. There are four ways that users typing in Twitter.com ...
  4 days ago

• ICANN | Advisory Concerning Posting of Registrar Fees for Restoring Deleted Domain Names

  
  Domain Name News — Authority: 425
  In the light of eNom following suite and increasing their redemption fee to $250 (as reported by DNN), ICANN has published the “ Advisory Concerning Posting of Registrar Fees for Restoring Deleted Domain Names ” yesterday. In the advisory ICANN does not limit the amount chargeable for domain redemption, but does ...
  4 days ago

• VeriSign Sends You An Early Christmas Present: .Com and .Net Fees To Increase 7%

  
  The Domains — Authority: 135
  I Guess VeriSign just sent all of us an early Christmas present. My registrar just informed me that they received a notice today from VeriSign today that they were raising their fees by 7% on July 1, 2010. VeriSign fees for .com registrations and renewals will be increasing to $7.34 from its current $6.86 and .Net ...
  5 days ago

• Letter from EU to UN Secretary General

  
  CircleID — Authority: 520
  Today the Swedish IT Minister Åsa Torstensson together with the Commissioner Viviane Reding sent a letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon . I think the letter is extremely well written, but when I twittered about it, some people contacted me and asked what was so special with it? Let me try to ...
  5 days ago

• The First Amendment & Net Neutrality: Be Careful What You Wish For

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 575
  As I noted here a few days ago , the Federal Communications Commission held a workshop on Tuesday about “ Speech, Democratic Engagement, and the Open Internet .”  It was a shockingly one-sided affair with the deck being stacked almost entirely in favor of advocates of Net neutrality regulation. Worse yet, those ...
  5 days ago

• ICANN Report Says Domain Tasting Down 99.7%

  
  Domaining - Domain Name News | How To Buy And Sell Domains — Authority: 118
  ICANN has released the second update to the GNSO Council on the implementation of its recommendations for the Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy. Since April 2009 (when ICANN implemented policy to interfere with a free market), “the number of AGP deletes across all TLDs has held steady at around 55-65k names ...
  5 days ago

• ICANN to Hold Live Consultation on New gTLD Registry Agreement

  
  Domain Name Wire — Authority: 539
  Live consultation to settle differences on domain name registry agreement. ICANN has scheduled a live consultation regarding the new top level domain name registry agreement for Thursday, 7 January 2010. The goal of the consultation is to discuss open issues in the agreement including: the process for amending ...
  6 days ago

• ICANN Status Report to the GNSO Council on AGP Limits Policy Implementation

  
  DomainPulse.com - The Beat on the Domain Name Industry — Authority: 429
  ICANN today is posting its second status report [PDF, 61K] to the GNSO on the implementation of its recommendations for the Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy. ICANN is committed to analyzing and reporting on the effects of the Policy to the GNSO at six-month intervals for two years after its implementation. The ...
  6 days ago

• Expressions of Interest Move Ahead: New TLDs Get Closer

  
  CircleID — Authority: 520
  It looks as if new top-level domains are getting ever closer to the opening bell. Preliminary minutes from the December 9 2009 ICANN Board of Directors meeting suggest that the Board may authorize Expressions of Interest (EOI) at their February 10th meeting. The vote was unanimous. Even with a long (four-month) ...
  1 week ago

• Felix the rat

  
  Upstart Blogger — Authority: 120
  Movie buffs will know exactly what that title means. Felix Barbosa, the cheating rat who comes to a sticky end after being outed as an informant in the movie Deep Cover, or someone just like him, is reading this blog right now.In the last 24 hours my traffic statistics have shown me something very interesting.I [...]
  1 week ago

• Spam-linked Chinese Domain Registrar Caught in Porn Cleanup

  
  CircleID — Authority: 520
  Owen Fletcher of IDG News Service reports: "A Chinese domain registrar long criticized for serving malicious domains promised stricter oversight on Tuesday after being censured in a government crackdown on Internet porn. Chinas own domain registry regulator last week became the latest source to criticize Xinnet.com, a ...
  1 week ago

• ICANN May Green Light EOIs for New Top Level Domains in February

  
  Domain Name Wire — Authority: 539
  Expressions of Interest for new TLDs move forward. The idea for “Expressions of Interest” for new top level domain names cleared a hurdle last week, as ICANN’s board asked staff to push forward on the idea. The unofficial minutes from the ICANN board meeting on December 9 explain what will happen next: ...
  1 week ago

• ICANN Consultation on New gTLD Registry Agreement

  
  DomainPulse.com - The Beat on the Domain Name Industry — Authority: 429
  ICANN invites community participation in an open consultation regarding the proposed registry agreement for new gTLDs. This meeting is being organized in response to a commitment made by ICANN at its meetings in Seoul to continue discussions with the community about open issues in the agreement, including the process ...
  1 week ago

• Egypt and the net

  
  Virtually Islamic — Authority: 140
  Reuters, Egypt puts archives on Web to boost Arabic content, 14 Dec 09 "Egypt has begun making its national archives digitally available on the Internet in Arabic, having last month registered the worlds first domain name in Arabic script."
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