Tag: china

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

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

Ted Cruz vs ICANN CEO Saga Continues

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… Continue reading Ted Cruz vs ICANN CEO Saga Continues

Republican Presidential Candidate Upset With ICANN CEO

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 src=”https://www.internetnews.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20160203_FadiChehadeLetter.pdf”]20160203_FadiChehadeLetter The IANA transition has been raised… Continue reading Republican Presidential Candidate Upset With ICANN CEO

CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS

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:… Continue reading CNNIC To Implement Alternative WHOIS

Google.cn Is No More

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… Continue reading Google.cn Is No More

China Leaps Ahead – EU Loses Ground

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… Continue reading China Leaps Ahead – EU Loses Ground

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