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ARI Wins .SYDNEY, .MELBOURNE & .VICTORIA As Big Guns Wheel...
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 -ARI Wins .SYDNEY, .MELBOURNE & .VICTORIA As Big Guns Wheel...
ARI Registry Services has been selected by the NSW and Victorian governments to assist with the application and operation of the .SYDNEY, .MELBOURNE and .VICTORIA top level domains. ARI Registry Services has engaged professional services firm Ernst & Young and digital brand management services...
ICANN: CEO Search Update
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 -ICANN: CEO Search Update
The CEO Search Committee has been actively working to identify top candidates for ICANN’s CEO/President position, to commence 1 July 2012. The window for candidate applications closed on Friday, 17 February. Our partner in the search process, Odgers Berndtson, has collected well over 100...
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Policy...
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 -Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Policy...
Purpose (Brief): Public notice is hereby provided of the proposed change related to the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy to standardize and clarify WHOIS status messages that is considered for adoption as well as an opportunity to comment on the adoption of the proposed policy change, prior to...
ICANN: IDN Variant Issues Project: Final Integrated Issues...
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 -ICANN: IDN Variant Issues Project: Final Integrated Issues...
ICANN is pleased to announce the publication of the final Integrated Issues Report [PDF, 2.15 MB] and the posting of the proposed project plan [PDF, 211 KB] for the next steps of the IDN Variant Issues Project for public comment. The report explores the issues associated with the potential...
CIRA Moves Towards DNSSEC With Paper on Proposal For Way...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 -CIRA Moves Towards DNSSEC With Paper on Proposal For Way...
[news release] Today, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) took a critical step in making the Internet more secure for Canadians. As part of CIRA’s planned implementation of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), CIRA released a DNSSEC Practice Statement (DPS) to provide...
Domain .КАЗ delegated to Kazakhstan
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 -Domain .КАЗ delegated to Kazakhstan
[news release] ICANN announced that domain .каз had been approved and delegated to the Kazakhstan Association of IT companies. According to ICANN, the new internationalized top-level domain name is of some interest to the global Internet community. The Kazakhstan Association of IT companies has...
ICANN Dot-Anything: Rethinking the Scope of the New GTLD...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 -ICANN Dot-Anything: Rethinking the Scope of the New GTLD...
Abstract: Just like the technology world prepared for Y2K, the dot-com centric way of Internet addressing is preparing to change. Instead of typing www.dot.com into your web browser, you will be able to enter www.dot.anything. This is because the organization in charge of domain names, ICANN, has...
ICANN: Public Comment: Roadmap to a New Domain Name...
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 -ICANN: Public Comment: Roadmap to a New Domain Name...
ICANN is pleased to announce the posting of the draft roadmap [PDF, 214 KB] to implement ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee’s Report on Domain Name WHOIS Terminology and Structure (SAC 051). To make or view comments click here. The SSAC report specifically targets, among...
Improved ICANN.ORG to Launch Ahead of Costa Rica Meeting
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 -Improved ICANN.ORG to Launch Ahead of Costa Rica Meeting
A nine-month project to overhaul our flagship website, ICANN.ORG, will complete another important phase soon, displaying a brand-new look to the ICANN community in time for the ICANN 43 meeting in Costa Rica. In addition to the new look (see the mock-up of the coming home page), the site’s...
Big Domain Sales Go Quiet in January
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 -Big Domain Sales Go Quiet in January
Following the confirmation of the million dollar sale of Dudu.com in the previous week’s list, sales for the week ending 15 January were comparatively quiet with the sale of icn.com for ,000 through Sedo being the week’s biggest seller. Second was local360.com (,000 through AfternicDLS...
.NG Targets Half Million Registrations By End 2012 From...
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 -.NG Targets Half Million Registrations By End 2012 From...
Building on its low base of domains under management of 42,000, the Nigerian ccTLD is targeting 500,000 registrations by the end of 2012. The Nigeria Internet Registration Association has recently improved its infrastructure, Ope Odusan NIRA’s Chief Operating Officer recently said, and the...
.ORG Registrations Rise 10% in 2011 To Nearing 10 Million
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 -.ORG Registrations Rise 10% in 2011 To Nearing 10 Million
.ORG registrations grew by 9.9 per cent in 2011, reaching 9.6 million total domains under management by the end of 2011 — a net gain of 411,002 for the second half of the year. The information was provided in the bi-annual domain name report published by the Public Interest Registry, [...]
DOMAINfest Global Presentations Now Online
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 -DOMAINfest Global Presentations Now Online
For those who did not attend DOMAINfest Global 2012 conference, held just two weeks ago, or even those who just want to relive the experience, the presentations and videos from the conference are now online on the DOMAINfest site. Some of the highlights are: Debra’s Domeyer’s (Oversee Co-CEO...
Australian Sporting Code Punts For Own TLD
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 -Australian Sporting Code Punts For Own TLD
The uniquely Australian sporting code, the Australian Football League, has become the first Australian brand and about ten others globally to announce it will be applying for a top level domain by applying for the .AFL TLD. The AFL joins brands such as Unicef, Canon and Hitachi to have publicly...
Successful Tenderer For .SYDNEY, .MELBOURNE Bids...
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 -Successful Tenderer For .SYDNEY, .MELBOURNE Bids...
An announcement is expected within the next week of the successful tenderer to assist with the application and run the registry for the .SYDNEY and .MELBOURNE gTLDs, The Australian newspaper reported today. The tender document, which was published in October 2011, said the Australian state...

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