Lawrence Strickling, ICANN transition needs participation, transparency, and consensus
By Dibya Sarkar Fiercegovernmentit A “smooth transition” from U.S. control over web addresses to a new, international group will require
Read More
Featured
BBC:France sparks .wine address row ahead of ICANN London for lack of adequate redress mechanisms
France has expressed anger at the organisation responsible for assigning internet domains over the planned launch of .wine and .vin
Read MoreICANN frustrated with a delay of its own making on the approval of .africa TLD
ICANN is in the middle of a email exchange for the apparent delay of .africa, with the AUC. This comes
Read MoreDid ICANN bow to Community Pushback, taking Neutral IANA Transition Role?
Source: BNA Writen By David McAuley June 10 — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers executed an about-face
Read More80% Of Small Businesses Prefer .Com over New gTLD’s says Verisign Backed Study
New Infographic: Perspectives from Small Businesses on New Generic Top-level Domains (gTLDs) WASHINGTON, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Over the
Read MoreDCA Registry Partner CentralNic acquires Internet.BS for $7.5 Million deal
CentralNic plc,(AIM:CNIC) acquired Internet.BS, a top 30 domain name registrar for a maximum consideration of USD 7.5 million. CentralNic says
Read MoreICANN: .vin and .wine domains set to be Uncorked despite objections
“It would be ill-advised for ICANN to attempt to define bad faith behaviour related to the use of geographical indications…
Read MoreGetting a new gTLD domain name? The process .sucks says Geekwire
Kevin Lisota of GeekWire writes, Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two
Read MoreNTIA escapes IANA spending restriction in Senate spend Bill
UPDATE: I am not going to rewrite this blog post. However, since writing it earlier today, I learned that there
Read MoreSecond House of Representatives “must pass” legislation amendment ups the stakes on ICANNTransition
The House of Representatives has passed another measure related to the proposed IANA functions transition, and has again attached it
Read More