Egypt, host of the United Nations sponsored Internet Governance Forum being held this week, Russia and China were among the first countries to submit applications to ICANN for internationalised domain names (IDNs) in non-Latin characters.
In total six countries applied for IDNs in three languages. Saudi Arabia was another country known to have applied, also applying [...]
Egypt and China have both said they will be applying for country code internationalised top level domain names as part of ICANN’s fast track process. ICANN will begin accepting requests for the new TLDs today (16 November) at 00:00UTC.
Egypt is planning to launch “the world’s first Arabic language internet domain” with Egypt’s communications minister, Tarek [...]
ICANN is pleased to announce the launch of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process.
Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own language. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the Internet’s naming and numbering systems, is today launching a [...]
ICANN’s Nominating Committee (Nom Com) invites Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations from the Internet community for key leadership positions to fulfill ICANN’s technical and policy coordination role. Interested individuals are invited to submit a Statement of Interest to the 2010 Nom Com for the following positions:
Three members of the Board of Directors [...]
[news release] Rick Latona Auctions announced today that they are accepting premium domain name submissions for their upcoming auction at TRAFFIC Las Vegas. If you have a premium domain name, right now is the time to submit it for this auction. The live auction will be January 22, 2010. The earlier a name is submitted, [...]
The Domainer Mardi Gras are offering a free 500GB hard drive to people who register by midnight today, Friday 13 November.
Registration rates are as low as $595 if you also book a room at the hotel conference, the New Orleans Marriott.
Domainer Mardi Gras 2010 coincides with the world-famous Mardi Gras in New Orleans taking place [...]
SnapNames is hosting their November Showcase Auction featuring generic keyword domains. The auction is currently underway and finishes on 17 November at 15:15 US EST.
To check out the catalogue and see current bids, go to:
www.snapnames.com/store/events.action?ig=304
Domain names up for grabs include ruffle.com, bisexualbimbos.com, coast.net, guys.org, heckled.com and sustaining.com.
A total of 240 domain names are for auction.
The introduction of internationalised domain names is being supported by Russian president Dmitry Medvedev who, in a briefing from the Minister of Telecommunications and Mass Communications Igor Shchegolev, reproduced on the ISRIA website and translated into English, says that Russia will be submitting an application for the .рф TLD on 16 November when ICANN calls [...]
SnapNames is facing a class action lawsuit, following the recent discovery that an executive employed by the company had set up an account on the SnapNames system under a false name and, under this name, bid in SnapNames auctions. They have found the former executive bid on around five per cent of auctions.
The class action [...]
With the auction of two-letter domain names closing at midday US Eastern Time (17.00 British Summer Time) bids for three of the domains have reached the six-figure mark, although none have reached the reserve.
The three domains with six figure bids are il.com (US$112,000), fw.com and tj.com (both $100,000) while oh.com ($86,000) and ro.com (€69,000) are [...]
