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Barnes & Noble Weigh In On Amazon’s New TLDs

By on February 28, 2013 in icann

Some pretty big companies are beginning to show an active interest in ICANN’s new TLD project. The most recent of them is bookseller Barnes & Noble. The letter, which is available both on the ICANN website and below, is quite narrow and pointed in its scope and focusses on the perceived competition issues with Amazon’s [...]

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ICANN Advertising For Director of gTLD Registry Services

By on October 4, 2012 in icann

ICANN currently has a number of job vacancies open, which isn’t that surprising for an organisation of its size. One of them, however, caught my eye: Director, gTLD Registry Services, Los Angeles, United States Reading the job description this sounds very like the role formerly held by Kurt Pritz (well – one of his roles [...]

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Kids.us Goes The Way of the Dodo

By on July 14, 2012 in ccTLDs, policy, registries

.Kids.us is one of those domain extensions that sounds like a good idea, but when you look at it a bit more closely you end up having more questions than answers. Essentially the domain extension was designed to be a safe internet space for “kid friendly” content, but the restrictions on registration were incredibly tight. [...]

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What Does The Whitehouse SOPA Statement Actually Mean?

By on January 15, 2012 in policy

The proposed legislation coming from the US to combat online piracy known as SOPA has not been popular among internet industry professionals or internet users. The debate surrounding the legislation heated up considerably in the runup to Christmas and there is now a planned “blackout” being organised by several high profile content providers. In a [...]

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ARIN Trials WhoWas Service

By on November 28, 2011 in ipv4, ipv6

ARIN is running a trial service that gives users access to historical IP whois data ie. it will tell you who was responsible for an IP address or block of IPs. The service is not automated and if you want to access it you will need to submit a request via email with information about [...]

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