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Archives for August 2016

Cruz Is Back Now With A Countdown Clock To “Doomsday”

August 31, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Senator Cruz' crusade against the IANA transition is back in full swing. With the deadline for the expiry of the IANA contract approaching both he and other anti-transition types have been working hard on their campaigns to block the transition. The latest addition to the Cruz website is a special lander page featuring a countdown clock: Yes, that's an image of … [Read more...] about Cruz Is Back Now With A Countdown Clock To “Doomsday”

Web Summit Acquire The .Com For Undisclosed Sum

August 27, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave

Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave announced via Facebook and Twitter that the company had acquired websummit.com for an undisclosed sum. Apparently they'd been negotiating the acquisition for the last 5 years. The domain has been registered since November 2001, which is long before Web Summit's first event was held in Dublin. The domain had switched registrars several … [Read more...] about Web Summit Acquire The .Com For Undisclosed Sum

More Right-Wing Pushback On IANA Transition [Video]

August 27, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Doing the rounds at the moment is the video below from a YouTube channel called "Black Pigeon Speaks". It's packed with the usual FUD, but has managed to get over 61 thousand views in the last week. Watch and listen: https://youtu.be/Fv1Wo9Eg40k Here's the transcript of the video with timestamps: 0:00the internet isn't broken 0:08so why fix it less than six … [Read more...] about More Right-Wing Pushback On IANA Transition [Video]

RIPE NRO Nominations Open

August 25, 2016 by Michele Neylon

RIPE NCC logo (2015 version)

Due to term limits there will be a seat available on the NRO for the RIPE region. RIPE will be holding the election to fill the seat during RIPE 73 next month. Nominations are open until 2359 on September 23. You can nominate someone or self-nominate by sending an email to: nominations@ripe.net with: Name of nominee Nominee’s country of residence Nominee’s … [Read more...] about RIPE NRO Nominations Open

Vint Cerf On Why The IANA Transition Is Positive

August 20, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Earlier this week Bloomberg's "Bloomberg West" spoke to Vint Cerf about the upcoming IANA transition. Obviously Cerf is supportive of the move and during the course of the interview he explains in simple terms what the US government was doing up until now and how that won't really change ie. nobody is going to notice the changes. You can see the segment with Cerf in the … [Read more...] about Vint Cerf On Why The IANA Transition Is Positive

WorldHostingDays Acquires NamesCon

August 19, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Earlier today WHD announced that they'd acquired NamesCon: https://youtu.be/gD9edNueils The next NamesCon will be held in Las Vegas towards the end of January 2017 … [Read more...] about WorldHostingDays Acquires NamesCon

NTIA Gives IANA Transition Plan Green Light

August 16, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Göran Marby

While August might be a slightly quieter time of the year in some quarters, it most definitely has not been for either ICANN or NTIA. Earlier today NTIA formally notified ICANN that it had accepted the IANA transition plans and that it would (unless something terrible happened) let the contract expire on October 1st. Here's the letter: [spiderpowa-pdf … [Read more...] about NTIA Gives IANA Transition Plan Green Light

Neustar Using Their DotBrand For Registry Services

August 15, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Neustar have had their dotbrand, .neustar, for a while. At the moment it's not very visible, but that could be changing. In an email to registrars the registry operator announced that they're switching the hostnames of some registry related services over to .neustar domain names. Currently more public facing domain names such as www.neustar redirect to the existing … [Read more...] about Neustar Using Their DotBrand For Registry Services

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