History of IPv4
It has long been anticipated, but the available pool of unallocated Internet addresses using the older IPv4 protocol – which holds a total of slightly more than four billion IP addresses – has now dipped to below the 10 percent mark, meaning that there are only a bit over 400 million IP [...]
Clandestine efforts by some countries to create alternative versions of the Internet for political ends could put the Web at risk, Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO, told AFP this week.
“It has been done,” Beckstrom told AFP. “We don’t speculate about who is doing it, it is really their private business.”
The article mentions “accusations that China and [...]
The GNSO Council is seeking comments on amendments to the GNSO Operating Procedures related to the 2010 selection process for ICANN Board Seat 13. Under the ICANN Bylaws, the Contracted Party House selects the individual to fill Board Seat 13, currently held by Bruce Tonkin. Mr. Tonkin’s term ends on 30 April 2010. The [...]
Website.de was the top selling domain name for Sedo in the week to 25 January selling for €101,150 ($142,214), far higher than the second biggest seller, which was bookkeepers.com ($34,000). Third biggest seller for the week was juegos-gratis.com (€13,500 / $19,000).
For the complete list of Sedo sales for the week, see below:
Domain [...]
[news release] From May 2010, all the root servers on which the working of the domain name system depends, will be giving DNS responses signed by using the DNSSEC protocol.
This evolution aims for increasing the confidence in DNS responses (by authenticating their origin); administrators of networks connected to Internet should [...]
The collaboration between ICANN, the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and VeriSign, Inc. to deploy DNSSEC in the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) passed an important milestone today. DNSSEC information is now being served by L-Root, one of the Internet’s 13 root servers, operated by [...]
Nominet, the registry for .UK domain names, has announced they will be giving registrars the ability to cancel domain names upon allegations of criminality activity involving .UK domain names.
The new service new service locks domain names by suspending the operation of the name, which means that any web site or email associated with the domain [...]
CENTR, the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, has produced a video to help explain the functioning of the Domain Name System (DNS).
The video, 2 minutes 20 seconds in length, is available below:
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Haiti Relief Effort to Benefit from Low and No Reserve Auction
Moniker.com has released its list of premium domain names for its live and extended online auction at the DOMAINfest Global 2010 conference. The live auction is scheduled for Thursday 28 January. There will also be a low- and no-reserve auction for a package of 51 [...]
A record number of .FI-domain names were registered in 2009. The total of registrations was 48,009 taking the total number of registrations to 225,625 at the end of the year.
This means a growth of 20 per cent year-on-year 2008. However, the statistics only comprise new registrations, not renewal of domain names.
FICORA, the policy and registry [...]
