Month: August 2012

ICANN 47 Confirmed For Durban South Africa

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… Continue reading ICANN 47 Confirmed For Durban South Africa

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… Continue reading Icelandic Registry To Introduce “Very Important Domains”

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.… Continue reading 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: It’s official. The Dot-Nxt conference has been cancelled. No refunds. Very disappointing #Fail… Continue reading Dot Nxt Cancelled

Google’s Copyright Algorithm Change Welcomed By White House

Late last week Google announced a change to their algorithm to penalise copyright infringers in the search engine’s results. The White House’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel, last night welcomed this move: On Friday, Google announced that it will incorporate valid copyright removal notices into its search algorithms, moving infringing sites down in search… Continue reading Google’s Copyright Algorithm Change Welcomed By White House

GoDaddy Responds To Front Running Claims

Over the last week several bloggers have posted accusing GoDaddy of “front running”, which is a practice that was effectively blocked by ICANN several years ago. GoDaddy have responded and explained how people can confuse lack of originality (their chosen domain wasn’t really unique) with nefarious activity. Their post is short, sweet and to the… Continue reading GoDaddy Responds To Front Running Claims

.Post Is In The Root

Yesterday a “new” domain extension was added to the root nameservers. It’s not really “new”, as it was approved ages ago, but hadn’t been delegated. The .post TLD will be run for post offices and only post offices, so don’t expect to see too many domain names using it.. It’ll be interesting to see which… Continue reading .Post Is In The Root

.Nz Registry Enables DNSSEC

The .nz domain registry has announced that they have enabled DNSSEC in the New Zealand namespace: New Zealanders will be able to better secure their web presence from today, thanks to a major technical security deployment by InternetNZ subsidiaries .nz Registry Services (NZRS) and the Domain Name Commission (DNCL). Following more than two years of… Continue reading .Nz Registry Enables DNSSEC

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