Nominet, the national registry for .UK domain names celebrates 25 years since the first .UK domain names were registered on Saturday 24 July 2010 by becoming the second largest country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) and fourth largest Top Level Domain (TLD). Since its inception in 1985, the .UK registry has witnessed the huge growth [...]
A slow week for domain name sales saw no sales above the $100,000 mark in the week to 11 July according to Domain Name Journal’s list of reported sales. The top sales for the week were freemarket.com and fiction.com who sold for $93,000 (sold through Sedo) and $90,000 (private sale brokered by Moniker) respectively.
Of other [...]
A critical upgrade to the internet’s infrastructure that will help make it more secure has been made in what is described as an historic collaboration between ICANN, the US Department of Commerce and VeriSign. The upgrade is to the domain name system and aims to protect Internet users from certain forms [...]
The joint ccNSO and GNSO IDN working group (JIG) is pleased to announce the publication of the working group’s Initial Report [PDF, 192 KB] on the introduction of Single Character IDN TLDs. This Report is intended to be a stocktaking of the policy issues regarding the introduction of Single Character IDN TLDs and [...]
Deadline: 6 September 2010 – 23:59 UTC
The Affirmation of Commitments calls for a periodic review of four key ICANN objectives, namely:
Ensuring accountability, transparency and the interests of global Internet users;
Preserving security, stability and resiliency of the DNS;
Promoting competition, consumer trust and consumer choice;
WHOIS policy.
In line with the Affirmation provisions, the Security, Stability and Resiliency of [...]
Deadline: 6 September 2010 – 23:59 UTC
The Affirmation of Commitments calls for a periodic review of four key ICANN objectives, namely:
Ensuring accountability, transparency and the interests of global Internet users;
Preserving security, stability and resiliency of the DNS;
Promoting competition, consumer trust and consumer choice;
WHOIS policy.
In line with the Affirmation provisions, the WHOIS Policy Review (WIR) [...]
auDA, the.AU policy and regulatory body, has terminated the registrar accreditation of Australian Style Pty Ltd, who trades as Bottle Domains, following a the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria dismissing Bottle Domains’ appeal in proceedings against auDA on 23 July 2010.
The termination came about following a serious breach of its obligations [...]
The GNSO Vertical Integration Working Group is seeking comments on its Initial Report on Vertical Integration Between Registrars and Registries. This Initial Report [PDF, 731 KB] is posted for public comment as a required step in the GNSO’s Policy Development Process on Vertical Integration between Registrars and Registries. The Initial Report [...]
Online gambling is big business. This year the domain name slots.com has been the biggest sale to date, sold for $5.5 million to Bodog Antigua. Other big gambling-related domain name sales were poker.org selling for $1 million and poker.ca for $400,000. Now OnlineCasino.dk has sold $580,000 making it the ninth biggest reported sale to date [...]
ICANN has called for applications for upcoming meetings to be held in North America, Asia Pacific and Africa in 2011.
The proposed meetings are:
the 40th meeting to be held 13-18 March 2011 in North America
the 41st meeting to be held 19-24 June 2011 in Asia Pacific
the 42nd meeting to be held 23-28 October 2011 in Africa.
For [...]
