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Cloudnames CEO Expects ICANN To Rewrite Internet Protocols

While most of the comments on the SSAC report on “dotless domains” are supportive of the recommendations one of them is completely opposed. Rolf Larsen of CloudNames wants SSAC to recommend a rewrite of the protocols!     Instead of trying to force the dotbrand owners to not use their TLD like they would want to,… Continue reading Cloudnames CEO Expects ICANN To Rewrite Internet Protocols

Cctld Conference In Budva

The 5th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe is being held in Budva, Montenegro this week. The event runs over two days and will feature speakers from several cctlds, ICANN and other experts in the area of domains. The full agenda is here. Related articles Yet Another Trip… Continue reading Cctld Conference In Budva

ICANN Announce TLD Application Change Request Process and Criteria

Shortly after ICANN announced the new TLD applications list it became evident that some applicants may have made mistakes in their applications. For the last couple of months there has been a lot of chatter in the ICANN community about how ICANN would handle changes to the submitted applications. Finally this morning ICANN has announced… Continue reading ICANN Announce TLD Application Change Request Process and Criteria

Google Withdraws 3 New TLD Applications

4 new tld applications including 3 from Google have been withdrawn

Google has withdrawn 3 of its new TLD applications. Its applications for .and, .are and .est are now listed as “withdrawn” on the new TLD application status page: As Kevin pointed out, the three strings break the rules, as they appear on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 list and are the codes for the United Arab… Continue reading Google Withdraws 3 New TLD Applications

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

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

.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

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