In its latest meeting on the issue, the ICANN board decided on Friday that they will proceed with plans to hold their 37th meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, after considering all the security issues that have been raised in recent weeks.
As part of its considerations, the ICANN board was advised that there will be enhanced security [...]
Abstract: In December 2008, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has successfully completed its third installment on issues pertaining to Internet governance. The IGF promotes a multistakeholder environment, where protagonists engage in an extensive debate to discuss how the Internet should look in the future; with these discussions in place issues of cultural diversity and cultural [...]
ICANN is today opening a public comment forum on a proposed amendment from Afilias Limited to Appendix 6 & 7 of the .INFO Registry Agreement.
On 9 February 2010, ICANN posted for public information a request submitted by Afilias through the Registry Services Evaluation Process to release and allocate one and two-character [...]
ICANN is today opening a public comment forum on a proposed amendment from Afilias Limited to Appendix 6 & 7 of the .INFO Registry Agreement.
On 9 February 2010, ICANN posted for public information a request submitted by Afilias through the Registry Services Evaluation Process to release and allocate one and two-character [...]
ICANN has given another update on the situation with their planning to deal with the security issues at the upcoming meeting in Nairobi in March. While they continue to monitor the situation, there will also be increased access to remote participation and there is a board meeting scheduled for 19 February to “give the Board [...]
Poker.org sold for $1 million, the largest reported .ORG sale to date, in a deal brokered by Sedo, reports TechCrunch.
The report notes the sale was “brokered on behalf of National A-1 Advertising, the domain poker.org was sold to PokerCompany.com for the sum of $1 million. Prior to the sale of poker.org, the highest .org sale [...]
More than three-quarters (77%) of all Whois records for five of the generic Top Level Domains (.COM, .ORG, .NET, .INFO and .BIZ) are filled with at least partially inaccurate information, according to a survey by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) for ICANN.
And while only 23 per cent of Whois data provided for domain name [...]
On 17 March 2010, a new system for the registration of domain names is being introduced and various processes are changing as a result. From that date, SIDN is therefore revising both the General Terms and Conditions for .nl Registrants and the General Terms and Conditions for Registrars to reflect the [...]
A record number of domain name registrations in 2009 have led to the registration of the one millionth .BE domain name last weekend.
DNS.BE announced that 2009 ended with a total of almost 978,000 domain names, a net growth of almost 14 per cent for the year. The financial and economic crisis has clearly not stopped [...]
The release of ICANN’s Proposed Framework for the Fiscal Year 2011 (FY11) Operating Plan and Budget [PDF, 767 KB] kicks off the operational planning process for ICANN, providing the community the first look at the planned work and financial resources required for FY11. The framework will be discussed with [...]
