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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”

Ted Cruz vs ICANN CEO Saga Continues

February 24, 2016 by Michele Neylon

US Senator Ted Cruz

Earlier this month US Presidential hopeful, Senator Ted Cruz, wrote to ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé to express his displeasure over Chehadé's activity in China. Chehadé's reply was sent last week and obviously did little to placate the Republican politician. In a release from Cruz's office last night it's pretty clear that we haven't heard the end of this episode (emphasis … [Read more...] about Ted Cruz vs ICANN CEO Saga Continues

Republican Presidential Candidate Upset With ICANN CEO

February 4, 2016 by Michele Neylon

Republican senator and US presidential candidate Ted Cruz is not very happy with ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade. In a letter from Cruz dated today Cruz has some pointed questions for Chehade in relation to his involvement with a recent meeting in China. Here's the letter in full: [spiderpowa-pdf … [Read more...] about Republican Presidential Candidate Upset With ICANN CEO

CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS

October 27, 2012 by Michele Neylon

CNNIC, the .cn registry, are to implement an alternative to traditional whois. According to an announcement by ICANN's Kurt Pritz, the Chinese organisation will be implementing a "RESTful" Whois server implementation. This is based on ongoing work within the IETF in the rather oddly named "weirds" project. Of course "weirds" is actually an acronym for: "Web Extensible … [Read more...] about CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS

Google.cn Is No More

March 22, 2010 by Michele Neylon

Google's ongoing dispute with China has taken an interesting twist.The internet giant is no longer using its .cn domain. If you go to google.cn you will get redirected to google.com.hk - Google Hong Kong.Now while the world is watching the big question remains. Will anyone in China's government really care?Related articles by ZemantaGoogle 99.9 Percent Sure To Shut Down … [Read more...] about Google.cn Is No More

DotMobi IDN To Launch October 29th

September 28, 2009 by Michele Neylon

I mentioned that dotMobi were planning to launch IDNs some time ago, but now they've announced a launch date. By the looks of things dotMobi are planning for a nice media coup, as the launch of the sunrise period for IDN coincides with the ICANN meeting in Asia on October 19th 2009 at 4am UTC.Unlike other IDN launches, dotMobi are being very specific about the launch and are … [Read more...] about DotMobi IDN To Launch October 29th

China Leaps Ahead – EU Loses Ground

September 2, 2007 by Michele Neylon

Verisign's latest domain report makes for interesting reading.The Chinese domain registry launched an aggressive price promotion at the beginning of the year and has seen in excess of 6 million names registered so far. Of course this could be similar to the .be promotion and the level of renewals is the thing to watch out for. Coming as it does at the dawn of .asia you'd have … [Read more...] about China Leaps Ahead – EU Loses Ground

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