ICANN's 47th public meeting will take place in Durban, South Africa from 14th to 19th July 2013. The meeting location was confirmed in the most recent ICANN board minutes. The .za Domain Name Authority will be the local hosts. Here's the relevant snippet from the board resolution: Whereas, ICANN intends to hold its second Meeting for 2013 in the Africa region as per … [Read more...] about ICANN 47 Confirmed For Durban South Africa
Archives for August 2012
Icelandic Registry To Introduce “Very Important Domains”
The Icelandic registry (.is) plans on introducing extra levels of protection to some domains and their registrants. The new program is called "Very Important Domains" or VID for short (yes another acronym and you'll have to excuse my childish snigger when I misread it as VDS) It's not clear from the registry's announcement how exactly this service will work, though it's … [Read more...] about Icelandic Registry To Introduce “Very Important Domains”
Honduran ccTLD Switching to CoCCA
The .hn (Honduras) country code top level domain is switching to CoCCA from Afilias in October. From October 1st all .hn domain names will be on the CoCCA platform. … [Read more...] about Honduran ccTLD Switching to CoCCA
Dotless Domains Deemed A Bad Idea
ICANN's security and stability committee (SSAC) recently issued a report on "dotless" domain names. These would be where the domain name is the extension - so instead of having $thing.$extension you would find $extension by itself. As the report (PDF) explains, there are quite a few technical issues with the concept of no domain extension. Just polling a few users on … [Read more...] about Dotless Domains Deemed A Bad Idea
Dot Nxt Cancelled
Rumours were flying around last night that the Dot Nxt conference scheduled for London next week had been cancelled again. Michael Berkens posted about the rumour over on his blog. Now this appears to have been confirmed by one of the attendees: https://twitter.com/ausregistryint/status/238539841585967104 Cancelling at this short notice will mean that a lot of … [Read more...] about Dot Nxt Cancelled