Since April 2009, DNS BE has blocked almost 200,000 .BE-domain names upon the advice of ICANN. When using the whois, the status ‘blocked’ was shown for these names.
Every three months DNS.BE received an up-to-date list from ICANN containing domain names sighted by the Conficker worm. This list contains mainly new domain names which are not [...]

Telnic have announced that as of 15 June registrants of .TEL domain names will be able to register their domain in any of sixteen languages.
“If you’re a Jörn, Júlia or Bjørn, or a Chlöe, 李 or Błażej, you will now be able to get your .TEL name in your own language, opening up a significant [...]

The .YU country code Top Level Domain slid into darkness on Tuesday when it stopped functioning at midday local time.
The decision to end .YU was taken by ICANN back in March 2008 after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, the Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) said.
At the same time as the ending [...]

The sex.com sale, or non-sale, is back in the news with a couple of stories about it. In one, Reuters is reporting “a lender which claims it is owed millions by the Sex.com [registrant] is asking a U.S. bankruptcy court to dismiss an involuntary bankruptcy case against the company, so it can resume a foreclosure [...]

With the by-line that “delay is a fact of life at ICANN” and that “dates are subject to change”, Minds + Machines have published a new timeline for the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains. The timeline follows a post-Nairobi webinar from ICANN board member Bruce Tonkin.
Coming up in the next couple of months, [...]

One has to wonder where people get the ideas for new generic Top Level Domains. The latest (seemingly not thought through) idea for a new gTLD to be made public is .MLS. What does “MLS” stand for I hear you ask? At least I did.
MLS stands for multiple listing services, and supposedly 15 of the [...]

The GNSO Council is seeking comments regarding the commencement of a policy development process on the topic of vertical integration1 between registries and registrars. The public comment period ends on 18 April 2010.
Background
The GNSO Council has commenced a policy development process (PDP) on the topic of vertical integration between [...]

In order to provide additional time for candidates to apply, ICANN’s 2010 Nominating Committee (NomCom) has extended the deadline for Statements of Interest until 15 April 2010 23:59 UTC. The 2010 NomCom is actively seeking qualified candidates for the following key positions within ICANN:

Three members of the Board of [...]

There were two six-figure domain name sales in Domain Name Journal’s list of reported sales in the week to March 14. The top seller was musicvideos.com, sold by Sedo for $250,000.
Next was optimize.com, sold for $115,000 and then the first country code sale for the week, gold.co.uk for £42,050 ($64,000).
Sedo had seven of the top [...]

As part of the ongoing review of .nz policies, three policies are now being reviewed. The policies being reviewed are: Process on de-authorisation of a Registrar – Consultation, Transfer to another Registrar – Consultation and Roles and Responsibilities – Consultation.

Process on de-authorisation of a Registrar – Consultation
This policy relates to the process which is [...]