ICANN: DNGLOBE LLC Loses ICANN Accreditation
ICANN terminated its accreditation agreement with registrar DNGLOBE LLC for failure to comply with the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), the contract between ICANN and registrars that governs the registration of domain names under generic top-level domains such as dot-com and dot-org.
The termination letter has been sent ...
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ICANN: DNGLOBE LLC Loses ICANN Accreditation
ICANN terminated its accreditation agreement with registrar DNGLOBE LLC for failure to comply with the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), the contract between ICANN and registrars that governs the registration of domain names under generic top-level domains such as dot-com and dot-org.
The termination letter has been sent ...
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ICANN: Public Comment: Your Input Requested on Proposed GNSO Working Group Guidelines
As part of the GNSO Improvements Process, which has as its objective to improve the structure and operations of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), a Working Group (WG) Work Team was tasked with developing a Working Group Model. This Working Group Model should become the focal point for ...
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VeriSign to Celebrate .COM’s 25th Birthday in March
VeriSign have announced .COM will be celebrating its 25th birthday in March. In March 1985 the first .com domain was registered. There are now around 80 million.COM domains registered.
As part of its celebrations, beginning in March 2010, VeriSign, the long-time operator of the .COM, will lead an industry-wide initiative to ...
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ICANN: Publication of Three Review Working Group Final Reports
ICANN is pleased to announce that the following review working group final reports have been published:
The Board review WG Final Report [PDF, 116K]
The SSAC review WG Final Report [PDF, 282K]
The Nominating Committee review WG Final Report [PDF, 361K]
The draft versions of these reports were presented at ...
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ICANN: Call for Applicants for the Position of Volunteer Review Team Member – Two Weeks Remain Before Application Deadline
ICANN reminds interested individuals that February 17th 2010, midnight UTC is the application deadline for the position of volunteers Review Team Members representing a Supporting Organization or Advisory Committee for the ‘Accountability and Transparency’ review which is called on by the Affirmation of Commitments.
A paper introducing draft proposals ...
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Rick Latona Auctions extended sale of over 600 domain names ends TODAY!
[news release] The extended sale for Rick Latona Auctions is active now and you can register and bid at www.proxibid.com/ricklatona. The auction will be over next Thursday, February 4 at 1:00pm US Eastern Time (7:00 PM CET). There are some really good deals available, so if you haven’t looked, now ...
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Swiss Among World Leaders in Enabling DNSSEC
SWITCH, the registry for .CH and .LI domain names, enabled DNSSEC on day two of the annual Domain Pulse conference in Luzern yesterday. SWITCH became the third ccTLD registry to enable DNSSEC giving registrants of .CH domain names added security following .SE (Sweden) and .CZ (Czech Republic).
The added security for ...
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Moniker DOMAINfest Domain Name Auction Continues Online
The Moniker Domain Name Auction that began at DOMAINfest continues online. High-quality domain names remain open for bidding until Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 12:15 p.m. Pacific time (3:15 p.m. Eastern time).
Corporations, advertisers and venture capitalists have recognized that internet real estate is an indispensable business and marketing tool. Interested ...
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Domain Name Security Gains Prominence in German-Speaking World
The 2010 Domain Pulse, hosted by SWITCH (the .CH registry) was held in the snowy Swiss city of Luzern. Domain Name Security (DNS) was of particular importance in this year’s meeting with DNSSEC being implemented in the root zone in 2010 by ICANN, and by many registries in the next ...
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