ICANN will not delay the launch of its much anticipated program to create hundreds, possibly thousands, of new Internet extensions, nor run a limited ‘pilot program’, as reported today by Kieren McCarthy of .Nxt. “Steve Crocker [ICANN's chairman] a…
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TLD Expansion: ICANN Must Not Back Down
ICANN’s plan to open up the domain name space to new top level domains is scheduled to begin January 12, 2012. This long overdue implementation is the result of an open process that began in 2006. It would, in fact, be more realistic to say that the de…
Rockefeller Seeks NTIA Help in Delaying Domain Name Increase – Multichannel Online
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) says the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is not taking the slow and steady approach to expanding generic top level domain names (gTLDs), which could have “adverse…
Thousands of domain registar’s customer details exposed – Sydney Morning Herald
More than 28,000 Melbourne IT customers have had their details emailed to others in an embarrassing privacy breach by the domain registrar. Each year the registrar is obliged by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to send a …
U.S. lawmakers ask ICANN to delay generic domain plan – Computerworld
IDG News Service – A group of U.S. representatives has asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to delay its plan to begin rolling out new generic top-level domains in early 2012. There is “significant uncertainty …
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The Circuit: New domain names, Microsoft’s final CES, Facebook privacy – Washington Post
LEADING THE DAY: The House commerce committee has asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to delay its plan to expand the number of top-level domains on the Internet. In a letter to ICANN, a bipartisan group of six …
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The gTLD Opera
The curtain rises on January 12th 2012 but key players are still singing different tunes. Let’s peek into their performance as they start taking center stage.
FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, has sent a letter to ICANN on December 16th 2011.
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