ICANN Draft FY13 Operating Plan and Budget
Purpose (Brief): ICANN’s annual operating plan and budget describes the planned activities and required resources for the fiscal year. These activities are based on ICANN’s strategic objectives, fiscal year priorities and community input.
The Bylaws require that the draft Operating Plan be posted by the 17th of May; it was determined ...
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Nominet Commences .UK is ‘A Great Place To Be’ Campaign
Following on from the recent achievement of reaching 10 million .UK domain name registrations milestone, Nominet has launched a new brand campaign for .UK.
The campaign is entitled ‘A Great Place To Be’ and emphasises the benefits having a .UK domain name can have for business, charity or personally in establishing ...
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ICANN Selects British National Physical Laboratory For gTLD Whois Privacy and Proxy Abuse Study
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) of the United Kingdom has been engaged by ICANN to conduct a study of Whois Privacy and Proxy Abuse the organisation announced.
“Guided by Richard Clayton, NPL has established a collaborative study team of domain specialists from three universities,” ICANN announced on their blog. “Together, this ...
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ICANN’s New TLD Big Reveal On Delay – Could There Eventually Be Over 3000 Applications?
With the original date for the “big reveal” of new Top Level Domain applications passing yesterday and no date announced for when the TLD Application System (TAS) will be back online, ICANN’s CEO has said he envisages having all the technical issues resolved and the programme back on track by ...
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Mid-Field Plays Strong In Weekly Domain Sales
There were no big sales on the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales in the week to 8 April where acronyms.com topped the chart, selling for $60,000 through DomainNameSales.
Second was Livedoc.com ($55,000, Sedo) while third was dangote.com ($40,000, DomainNameSales).
In recent weeks Sedo has been facing some competition at ...
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Bright New World Begins Today For .PT
At 09:00 today (1 May, local time) a bright new world emerged for the Portuguese ccTLD .PT with .PT domains now available for everyone!
The changes mean anyone can register a domain for the Portuguese ccTLD and registrants will no longer have to be associated with a brand or company, not ...
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Oman Relaunches .OM With ARI Registry Services Support
[news release] The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the Sultanate of Oman, with the support of ARI Registry Services, officially relaunched the .OM country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) today in a move to ensure the ongoing stability and growth of the Internet within the country and greater Gulf region.
ARI Registry ...
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ICANN Cuts Friday From Upcoming Prague Meeting
ICANN is ending its upcoming meeting in Prague on a Thursday, a day earlier than the usual Friday closing day. The official closing of the meeting will occur at 18:00 on Thursday.
In an announcement on the ICANN website from the Chairman of the Board, Steve Crocker, it says the Friday ...
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ICANN’s TAS Woes To Continue For At Least One More Week
ICANN’s TAS woes continue with the re-opening of the TLD application system (TAS) still at least one week away.
In the latest statement from Akram Atallah, ICANN’s COO, on their website, Atallah says the organisation will notify all applicants within the next seven business days as to whether their analysis shows ...
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Bloomberg and Reuters Feature Domain Name Price Index Created with Sedo Market Data
[news release] Sedo, today announced that Bloomberg and Reuters have added IDNX, the industry’s leading domain price index, to the financial markets covered on their respective Web sites. This validates the economic relevance and investment potential of domain names, and makes the domain market more transparent for investors.
IDNX provides critical ...
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