Posts Tagged ‘executive’

Four Promises ICANN Must Meet with New Top-Level Domains

Just back from a week of ICANN meetings in Dakar. Is it just me, or is the new top-level domain program starting to feel like a TLD triathlon, where everyone’s now jockeying for position in the final stage — a grueling marathon?

When ICANN’s bo…

New .xxx Internet domain will only lead to more pornography – Deseret News

xxx domain name for sexually explicit and pornographic material was approved on March 18 by the organization governing domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). After the announcement, an executive stated, “ICANN’s …
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Policy Failure Enables Mass Malware: Part II (ICANN and OnlineNIC)

Source:CircleID: Domain Names

On Wednesday September 29th at 1PM there will be a meeting in the Old Executive Building in Washington D.C. with Registries and domain Registrars to discuss illegal Internet sales of prescription drugs. ICANN was originally invited but declined because…

Dr. Kevin Ham Makes a Major Move Aimed at Becoming a Global Leader in Interactive Media

Dr. Kevin Ham’s Reinvent Technology is making a bold move toward becoming a major player in the convergence of TV and the Internet. In a bid to become a global leader in interactive media, Reinvent has just appointed the man who launched Oprah Winfrey’…

Still Another Top Yahoo Search Exec Jumps to Microsoft – the Third to Switch Sides Since November

Though Yahoo spurned Microsoft’s offer to buy the company last year (and subsequent overtures to buy just Yahoo’s search business) it is starting to look like Microsoft intends to get Yahoo’s search expertise one employee at a time if necessary. For th…

Oversee Executive Talks With DNJournal About Layoffs at the Company Friday

One of the world’s leading domain companies, Oversee.net, reduced its workforce by 10% Friday. Oversee VP Mason Cole spoke with us about the tough decision to lay off team members.

Notes from GeoDomainExpo

While attending the Associated Cities‘ GeoDomain Expo in San Francisco, Oracle World was happening across the street at the Moscone Center. Our venue hotel had a lot of spillover crowd from the Oracle World conference, and so thre were mixed crowds socially.  Mash-up a who’s who of alpha dog domainers and Oracle enthusiasts, developers and [...]